COLLEGE ROAD TRIP

Headline: ** Sweet, Kind and Frenetic **
Title: COLLEGE ROAD TRIP
Quality: * * * Acceptability: +3
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: None
Violence: V
Sex: None
Nudity: None

RATING: G
RELEASE: March 7, 2008
TIME: TBD
STARRING: Martin Lawrence, Raven-Symoné, Donny Osmond, Brenda Song, Eshaya Draper, Kym E. Whitley, Margo Harshman, and Molly Ephraim
DIRECTOR: Roger Kumble
PRODUCER: Andrew Gunn
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Anne Marie Sanderlin, Anthony Katagas, Raven-Symoné, and Michael Green
WRITERS: Emi Mochizuki, Carrie Evans, Cinco Paul, and Ken Daurio
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
DISTRIBUTOR: Walt Disney Pictures/The Walt Disney Company

CONTENT: (BB, C, L, V, M) Strong moral worldview with one positive prayer and some dialogue about the daughter being grown up and going off on her own, although the Bible always has children under the protection of their parents until they get married, and the father says he prepared her to be equipped to be her own person; no foul language, although pig makes some scatological sounds; lots of action but very mild such as car rolls over, father under sorority bed while girls jump on it, father falls off ladder, father hangs off ledge, and other pratfalls; very mild discussions of relationships and several dance scenes, one song "Double Dutch Bus"; no nudity and no provocative dressing; no alcohol; no smoking or drug references; and, father tries to trick daughter into going to local college.

GENRE: Comedy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: All ages

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SUMMARY: COLLEGE ROAD TRIP is a sweet family father-daughter movie about an over-protective father who tries to make his teenage daughter go to college closer to home. COLLEGE ROAD TRIP is very clean and shows the need for fathers to love their children enough to listen to them, but the plot is a very thin.

IN BRIEF:

COLLEGE ROAD TRIP is a sweet family father-daughter movie with broad comedy. James Porter, the police chief of a suburban Chicago town, is an over-protective father. His 17-year-old daughter, Melanie, wants to go to Georgetown, far away from their Illinois home. He wants her to go to Northwestern, only 28 minutes away. His son is a genius who has bred a brilliant pig who can play chess and keeps his eye on James. Melanie has a chance to get into Georgetown, but she has to get to the interview in three days. James offers to take her in the police cruiser, but he does everything to sabotage the trip. Father and daughter bicker, banter and careen from one disaster to another.

COLLEGE ROAD TRIP is very clean and shows the need for fathers to love their children enough to listen to them. The movie has a wonderful story about the reconciliation of a father and a daughter, but the story is not as well crafted, deep or rich as THE GAME PLAN. At many points, it is a thin excuse for broad-based, slapstick comedy. Thus, viewers may end up wanting more.