'Road Trip' actors upstaged by pig
Blaire Ramey
Issue date: 3/13/08 Section: Entertainment
Choosing which college to attend can be the most thrilling time of a young woman's life ... unless your over-protective father isn't willing to let you go.
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In the new Disney release, 'College Road Trip'," eager scholar Melanie Porter (Raven-Symoné) wants to attend Georgetown University.
Her control-freak dad (Martin Lawrence) has a smaller, closer college in mind.
The pair venture out on a road trip visiting schools, and everything goes wrong.
The film is full of sentimental life lessons, cute animals and lame stunts like skydiving; all things viewers have come to expect from Disney.
There were parts of the movie I enjoyed, but mostly I found myself bored. The boredom was interrupted every 15 minutes with a fiasco involving the pet pig, which left everyone laughing.
It's kind of sad that the human characters were upstaged by a farm animal.
The film started out OK, but got worse as it went on.
It was predictable; everything that could possibly go wrong for the travelers did, and its attempts at comedy fell flat.
The two lead characters had good chemistry, but it seemed like they were screaming their lines, as if they were actors in a low-budget play with no microphones.
The movie did have some funny scenes with a gay, obnoxious Donny Osmond. His quirky character added some laughter to the few scenes in which he appeared.
Although I felt like the movie was put together sloppily, with a bunch of random ideas, in the end it all came together and left me feeling good.
bramey@capital.edu
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In the new Disney release, 'College Road Trip'," eager scholar Melanie Porter (Raven-Symoné) wants to attend Georgetown University.
Her control-freak dad (Martin Lawrence) has a smaller, closer college in mind.
The pair venture out on a road trip visiting schools, and everything goes wrong.
The film is full of sentimental life lessons, cute animals and lame stunts like skydiving; all things viewers have come to expect from Disney.
There were parts of the movie I enjoyed, but mostly I found myself bored. The boredom was interrupted every 15 minutes with a fiasco involving the pet pig, which left everyone laughing.
It's kind of sad that the human characters were upstaged by a farm animal.
The film started out OK, but got worse as it went on.
It was predictable; everything that could possibly go wrong for the travelers did, and its attempts at comedy fell flat.
The two lead characters had good chemistry, but it seemed like they were screaming their lines, as if they were actors in a low-budget play with no microphones.
The movie did have some funny scenes with a gay, obnoxious Donny Osmond. His quirky character added some laughter to the few scenes in which he appeared.
Although I felt like the movie was put together sloppily, with a bunch of random ideas, in the end it all came together and left me feeling good.
bramey@capital.edu
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