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Film Threat
Matthew Sorrento
Undeniably fun for the kids, though it requires a camp sensibility in its adult audience. But in doing so, it is a warm return to the live-action Disney movies of yesteryear.
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Jason Anderson
You know a movie has taken a very strange turn when you find yourself eagerly awaiting the next appearance by Donny Osmond.
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Entertainment Weekly
Adam Markovitz
At its best when it drops any pretense of plot for sheer goof (as when a Japanese sightseer belts ''Sister Christian'' on a karaoke tour bus), and at its worst when Lawrence manages to out-ham even his porky four-legged costar.
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Variety
Justin Chang
This overplayed, underachieving laffer feels thoroughly manufactured to Disney specifications.
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New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
If, on the other hand, your driver's license is still a distant dream, consider this a path to pure hilarity.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Walter Addiego
Relies on slapstick scenes that are neither essential nor especially clever.
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The New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Eyes popping and mouths agape, Martin Lawrence and Raven-Symoné mug their way through College Road Trip as if it were a silent movie -- which, come to think of it, would have been a lot less irritating.
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Los Angeles Times
Gene Seymour
As over-the-top as Raven-Symoné and Lawrence are, the most live-action cartoon characters in College Road Trip are the father-daughter tandem of Doug (Donny Osmond) and Wendy (Molly Ephraim), whose nitro-powered perkiness pass the point of grating and move into a perversely antic state of grace.
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Washington Post
John Anderson
Perhaps there will be people who do laugh at Lawrence and Raven-Symon screaming in tandem, or mugging their way along every tortured mile of their road trip, or unwittingly joining a sky-diving club and having to parachute into Washington so Melanie can make her interview. Heck, it was all really funny when they did it on "I Love Lucy."
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The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
What is puzzling is the incompatibility of the two leads with their roles. Raven is supposed to be a high school senior on a road trip to check out prospective universities. But she acts like a adolescent on a sugar high during a weekend sleepover.
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LA Weekly
Tim Grierson
Lawrence's descent from hyperactive foulmouth to G-rated father figure has been in evidence for years now, but watching director Roger Kumble move from flawed but juicy projects like "Cruel Intentions" to pap like this is a depressing career development.
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Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
As generic as its title, College Road Trip feels like a first draft, the one the studio brings to the rewrite team that, in this case, never got hired.
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New York Post
Kyle Smith
Better than most Martin Lawrence movies - much as strep throat is better than malaria.
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Boston Globe
Ethan Gilsdorf
Highly formulaic, make-'em-laugh-then-make-'em-cry comedy.
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Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
Absolutely nothing funny happens during their drive to Georgetown for an interview, even with Donny Osmond along for the ride.
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Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
Osmond is all teeth and no talent. You’d think that his presence here might provide an opportunity for some tongue-in-cheek humor at his expense, but Osmond plays the comedy so darn straight that it’s painful to watch.
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The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
The almost perversely colorblind College Road Trip represents a strange milestone in black film.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
David Hiltbrand
The whole project is a cloying, artificial mess. The slapstick comedy doesn't bite, and the formulaic sentimentality doesn't grip.
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USA Today
Claudia Puig
The tagline for College Road Trip is "You Can't Get There Fast Enough." But for those who sit through this humorless and massively predictable movie, a more apt phrase would be: "You Can't Get Out of There Fast Enough."
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TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Lawrence runs through his usual repertory of mugging, seething and generally acting like a fool, only to be regularly upstaged by Arnold, Trey's pet piglet.
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