Okay some of you may think of Raven Symone has someone who is not funny, and is over the top for the most part, like she is on Disney's That's So Raven(2003-2007),I'm amazed she still has a career after that. But her performance was memorable and not over the top. She plays Melaine Porter, a graduate from High School, who wants to go George Town college, but her overprotective dad police chief James Porter(the very funny Martin Lawerence) wants her to go to Northwestern, in hopes she'll be closer to home. He decides to on a College Road Trip with her, and that is all you need to hear. Raven Symone is not a truly great actress, but still manages to be entertaining, and avoids being called the worst actress ever. She and Martin Lawerence are funny together, they play off each other so well. It is also the funniest road comedy since Are We There Yet(2005).

College Road Trip (2008): Dir: Roger Kumble / Cast: Martin Lawrence, Raven-Symone Donny Osmond, Will Sasso, Eshaya Draper: Pathetic road comedy about everything that we have seen hundreds of times in better films than this. Title seems to suggest patience, which viewers will need upon watching this road wreck. Martin Lawrence plays a police officer who plans a road trip with his college bound daughter. Rushed premise followed by road movie clichés with an obvious ending. Director Roger Kumble does his best despite cheap production values. Among his best work are Cruel Intentions and the underrated Just Friends, which are opposite scale to this trash. Lawrence is basically the target of a bunch of unfunny pratfalls that come off as forced. Raven-Symone is the target of her father's constant screw ups. We can sense the union coming from the opening credits but they must get on one another's nerves for two hours first. Annoying supporting roles by Donny Osmond, Eshaya Draper and Will Sasso as if their contribution could add one ounce of worth. This film is bad on so many levels, and easily Kumble's worst film since The Sweetest Thing, so if it's an improvement on that travesty then it's not much of a stretch. As oppose to stating the need for parents to accept the independence of their children, it becomes your standard road comedy road kill. Score: 2 / 10

OK, this movie is in no possible way to be family movie of the year, I can't stand Marin Lawerence with a passion, I mean this guy has the most ridicules sense of humor and his movies usually equal bad. But my boyfriend wanted to see College Road Trip so badly, so it was his pick. We saw it tonite, I have to say that actually with several exceptions, this wasn't such a bad family film. As for me and my boyfriend alone to see it? No, uh uh, but I'm judging this as what it is meant to be, a family film. I know that these Disney family films get a little old, the story is played over a million times, but I realized something, the story is safe, so naturally they'll play on it. So honestly, it's not that big of a deal, as for some of the jokes? Some were not that bad, some were cute, but some were just, oh, god, Donny Osmond.

Melanie is what you would call the perfect daughter, perfect grades, good morals, great friends, and has just got an interview with Georgetown University for acceptance. The problem? Her over protective and controlling father, James doesn't want to let go of her, so he tells her that they'll go on a college road trip and in the mean time he'll try to convince her to go to a school closer to home. But along the way he learns that maybe it's time to think of what she wants and to trust her.

College Road Trip isn't a horrific film, I wouldn't put this into the bottom 100 on IMDb, believe me, you could do so much worse when it comes to a Disney family film. I know a lot of people are giving this film a bad rep, but honestly, it's worth it for the kids. It's cute enough for the family, has a good message, and isn't all so bad. Honestly, if it were not for Donny Osmond coming into the film and scaring 10 years off my life, I would give it a higher rating, but I think my rating is generous enough. For the family, I recommend, for an adult, you might wanna avoid. I'll be having nightmares for a few days of Donny and his daughter singing.

4/10