College Road Trip

• Martin Lawrence James
• Raven - Symoné Pearman: Melanie
• Kym Whitley: Michelle
• Adam LeFevre: Judge
• Eugene Jones III: Hunter
• Brenda Song: Nancy
• Margo Harshman: Katie
• Lucas Grabeel: Scooter
• Matthew Schlein: Jury Foreman
• Eshaya Draper: Trey
• Will Sasso: Deputy O'Mally
• Geneva Carr: Mrs. O'Mally
• Na'Kia Bell Smith: Young Melanie
• Josh Meyers: Stuart
• Lonny Ross: Student Guide
• Donny Osmond: Doug

College Road Trip is an American comedy film from the year 2008.

Action

The information on preventive control freak James is about to send his much beloved daughter Melanie college. Actually there is in the U.S. over 4000 colleges, because he wants to have but met five important criteria for a good college, namely the quality of scientific institutions, distance from home, the campus security, the distance from home and finally the distance from home, remains only the left Northwestern University, which is located just 40 miles away from home in Fox Springs. Only Melanie is it not very enthusiastic, yet will prefer to study at the Georgetown University Law. This in turn upset James, his daughter 700 miles away in Washington, DC wants to study. Because he fears that her bad could happen, he slaps her before unceremoniously a father-daughter trip to make a so-called College Road Trip.

The first stop is the Northwestern, where James lots of tricks, trying to persuade his daughter that she should study there. But she sees through this quickly and reached by a small white lie that the journey goes quickly. At least until the next jam, the James wants to deal with his expensive navigation system. Unfortunately, he ends up doing in the wilderness and then picks up a flat tire. When trying to change this, his car rolls over and falls down an attachment, so they have to walk further. With the inn " Deer Creek" they will quickly find a place to stay for the night. The next day, they drive only hitchhiking and then by bus to the grandmother. During the trip, Melanie explains to her father that she wants to Georgetown, so she can also spend a year in Japan. Once he is out of tune, he accepted her apology to have it concealed him and that his daughter also has a will of its own.

While visiting her grandmother in Pittsburgh Melanie stayed with her two best friends in college dorm. He feared bad, so he tried to break into the home. As he crept in and hid under the bed, but he must listen with his daughter is proud of him that he finally accepted their will and not spying after her. James realizes what he is doing himself and falls asleep. When he wakes up the next morning, Melanie is gone and he is considered a criminal, so he goes to prison. Melanie is disappointed by what her father has done, which is why they denied him and makes his way to Georgetown. Some time later, his mother the initial deposit, so James can rush to Melanie, apologizes and promises her to do everything, but still in time to go to Georgetown to make her job interview. With the help of a parachutist teams they manage to take off and land on time - after a reckless pursuit on a golf course - to a job interview. Melanie is accepted and soon after pulling into her dorm. At Thanksgiving they appear at home with her new friend Tracey.

Background

Criticism

In the New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis said that Martin Lawrence and Raven - Symoné in this "weak action " " pull faces as if they were in a silent movie ."