Endearing and Fun Family Film
Movie Reviewer, a storyteller, A Big Giant Sap, mother of 2
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MAR
9
2008
College Road Trip —
If you're looking for a good family film to see during Spring Break, you can't do much better than College Road Trip. Starring Raven-Symone, I knew I had to bring my 11 year old daughter to see it. It seems we regularly watch her show on Disney, along with its spinoff, Corey in the House, but I felt in the end I enjoyed it nearly as much as she did.Raven stars as a typical high schooler battling with her father, played by Martin Lawrence in a role much different than his earlier ones. Like every dad, he only wants the best for his only daughter, but he also wants her to stay close to him, which is the reason why from the day she was born, he has dreamed of her going to Northwestern. Wanting to be a defense attorney after a successful turn doing the same for the Big Bad Wolf in a mock trial in high school, she wants to go to Georgetown, much further away.
With his daughter needing to get to Washington, D.C. for an interview with Georgetown, Lawrence borrows his company car, the Chief of Police SUV, and renames it Georgetown Express, promising to deliver his daughter on time, but what he doesn't tell her is that he is also planning on stopping at Northwestern and rigging it to look like the perfect school choice. Things, of course, don't go as planned, leading to much of the humor in the movie.
Also adding to the comedy is Raven's little brother in the film, a child with a genius IQ who plays chess with a pet pig. While the pig seems like the perfect family addition to everyone else, Lawrence is often irritated with him, calling him the Houdini Pig, as he thinks the pig is eying him up and down and secretly following him. But the best comedic addition to this film is Donny Osmond, playing the part of purely milquetoast dad who is also shopping campuses with his daughter. They sing nauseous songs together, such as Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini and So Long, Farewell from Sound of Music.
I won't tell you which college Raven and Lawrence choose in the end, but I will admit to tearing up a little as she was saying goodbye to him on the steps of the college. With my own kids not that far away from this themselves, I could only connect to it and think how tough it will be. My daughter later admitted to crying in the bathroom over the same thing. Aside from this, College Road Trip was great fun, making it the perfect family film, with humor and endearing moments, the latter of which I never would have expected from Martin Lawrence.
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