James is the police chief in a small Illinois town not too far from Chicago. Melanie is his daughter who eventually wants to go to law school, but James is determined to keep her safe, and that means a college close to home. She does really well in a mock trial. Unfortunately, Melanie really wants to go to Georgetown, which is a long way from Illinois in Washington, D.C.--and she is accepted.Melanie's friends Nancy and Katie are going to visit a sorority in Pittsburgh where one of them has a relative who is a sister. They will take Melanie along, and it's a quick trip from there to Georgetown. And Melanie's Grandma Porter lives in the area.James won't go along with the plan. He tricks Melanie into going along with him ... to Northwestern. While there, they meet the most annoyingly perky father and daughter, Doug and Wendy. And James has hired actors to pretend to be former Georgetown students who had really bad experiences. Will all of this make Melanie choose Northwestern and make her father happy? No, we have an exciting and disastrous road trip ahead.And it involves Melanie's genius younger brother Trey and his pet pig. And a disastrous wedding reception at a bed and breakfast. And a memorable music video of "Double Dutch Bus"--supposedly Melanie's favorite song as a child, but she doesn't seem to remember it now. The video involves numerous Japanese tourists on a bus, one of whom has an opera-quality voice and really should have been given more chances to show her talent.Grandma Porter is not a feeble old woman. She has friends who enjoy life. Her son, of course, thinks she needs a security system that is much more complicated than necessary.And Melanie does get to meet up with her friends.Before it is all over, we see jail, skydivers, and lots more hilarious situations that don't need to be mentioned.Does Melanie make it on time? Okay, it's not a masterpiece, but this is a very funny movie.I don't care much for the pig, but the chaos it causes does add a lot.And there is some substance as James and his daughter have some deep discussions.It is a family movie. There is taser violence but it's cartoonish. And a sorority sister named Chris, who has a male-sounding voice, sets up what could be naughty humor but isn't really. Another of the sisters is Bobbi, which makes things worse.Martin Lawrence gives his usual performance, though it's not exactly his best. he's good enough.It's a crazy adventure.

"College Road Trip" didn't offer me anything that I thought it might have. It is pretty standard Disney fare, but it's very disappointing how little insight Disney puts into their movies. This is neither an exploration of a father-daughter relationship, nor is it a college-level comedy, nor is it an examination into a young woman as she tries to figure out how to pick the right college for her. This movie could have been any or all of the above, but it's none of it.All it is, is a very low-level family comedy. It's slapstick comedy done for no audience that I could think of and done way over-the-top that it's just painful. All of the jokes have been done before in pretty much every Disney or family comedy and wouldn't be funny to anybody nearing college age, well actually, that sentence should just finish with that it wouldn't be funny to anybody. Period.There is no audience for this corny and stale Disney comedy. "College Road Trip" doesn't offer anything real or tangible about college, or travelling on any kind of road, or about taking any kind of trip.

This is my favorite "father-daughter" comedy film besides "Father of the Bride," starring Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor. I had seen it with a friend, and I love it. Some parts will make you laugh; some parts will make you cry - a little.The film is about Melanie Porter who is ready to go to Georgetown University for college. But her overprotective, police-chief father James, takes the opportunity to "escort" her, turning it into from a girls-only trip with her friends to a crazy, hilarious trip with dad. And that's all I could tell you folks, you will have to see the film for yourself. I thought the scenes with Albert the little pig are cute. And the scene when James get tasered was really funny.

Martin Lawrence and Raven Samone have fun making a movie while we suffer in College Road trip.Watching College road trip will leave you asking yourself many questions.Are teenagers really that retarded?What the hell is Donnie Osmond doing in this movie?What is happening to the world?College road trip is a family comedy,of course.Are those usually good? Rarely anymore. But College road trip isn't like any other family comedy. It's worse. I maybe laughed five times throughout this movie.Martin Lawrence plays an overprotective cop/dad. When his daughter Melanie(played by Raven Samone) is going off to Georgetown University,which destroys the plan that he had for her. So when she goes to Washington D.C. for a meeting, her dad decides to go with her. Which leads to a hell of a lot of clichés.The predictability of this movie is disgusting. The lack of laughs is also.The cheesiness and the poor dialogue is also. And the lack of fun involved is sad. Martin Lawrence is always likable,and so is Raven Samone. But stooping to this level of Disney comedy is sad. There are very few enjoyable scenes in this movie.One is when they are in a car with Donnie Osmond and they sing a lot. This is a movie that makes teenage girls look like stupid bimbos.I know it's a family comedy,but that is no point to make a movie so bad. I don't hate this movie. I loathe it.College Road trip: D+