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College Road Trip
Directed by Roger Kumble
Produced by Andrew Gunn
Ann Marie Sanderlin
Raven-Symoné (executive)
Written by Carrie Evans
Emi Mochizuki
Cinco Paul
Ken Daurio
Starring Martin Lawrence
Raven-Symoné
Brenda Song
Kym Whitley
Margo Harshman
and Donny Osmond
Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s) March 7, 2008
Running time 84 min.
Country United States
Language English
Gross revenue $45 million (USA)

College Road Trip is a 2008 film directed by Roger Kumble and starring Martin Lawrence, Raven-Symoné, Brenda Song, Margo Harshman and Donny Osmond. The American family film centers on college-bound teen Melanie Porter (Raven-Symoné), who goes on a road trip to different colleges with her father and college-bound teen Nancy Carter (Brenda Song), who surprises Melanie on her road trip along with her friend, Katie (Margo Harshman). The film was released by Walt Disney Pictures in the United States on March 7, 2008.

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Plot

The film is about Melanie Porter (Raven-Symone), an extremely smart 17-year-old college-bound girl who is getting ready to graduate from high school and really wants to go to Georgetown University. However, her over-protective father, Chief James Porter (Martin Lawrence) isn't ready for her to leave and study so far away from home. Porter has other plans for Melanie; he wants her to go to Northwestern University which is 28 minutes away from their home. Porter also receives problems from disagreements with his wife (Kym Whistley), the family pig Albert, who continuously annoys him, and his youngest son Trey, who spends much time with the pig. Melanie gets invited by a scout, who saw her mock trial performance, to an interview for Georgetown. Melanie gets invited by her two best friends Nancy (Brenda Song) and Katie (Margo Harshman) to join them on their college road trip to Philadelphia. Melanie is all set to go with her friends until her father surprises her with his own college road trip to Washington, D.C. On their journey, Porter still sees his seventeen-year-old daughter as a young child, while Melanie tries to get him to treat her like a woman.

On their way, Melanie reluctantly visits Northwestern to take a tour. Porter secretly fixes the tour as everyone turns out to be actors, one screaming at Melanie they lost an eye at Georgetown. Melanie almost falls for it until one of the actors says to her "Yeah, the chief's a pretty smart guy", since he never met Porter. Melanie is now more upset at her father.

Their car soon breaks down on the side of the road, in which they find Trey in the trunk with Albert, with a supply of oxygen, who Porter says will soon send him meet back to his wife.

They stop at a hotel (thanks to Albert's navigating) but end up causing trouble due to Albert eating coffee beans and becoming hyperactive and ruining a wedding. They later met an extremely happy father and daughter duo, Doug (Donny Osmond) and Wendy (Molly Ephraim), who are on their own college road trip. The two offer Melanie and James a ride since James' car broke down.

Melanie and her father become quickly annoyed, due to their consant singing, unusual greeting. They soon bond on the trip when Melanie remembers their song together on a tour bus, and tried to work out their differences. It is almost broken when she goes to a sorority house her friends and she has been anticipating, in which Porter intrudes, but they end up forgiving each other at the airport. After dropping off Trey, they must skydive down.

When they reach their destination, Melanie and James have learned a great deal about one another and from one another. In the ending James copes with letting go and the closing scene is when the whole family have a Thanksgiving dinner and Melanie introduces her friend Tracy (who is a guy, played by Benjamin Patterson). James learns to cope with this fact, but Doug's daughter announces her engagement to Scooter (Lucas Grabeel) which causes Doug to freak out and attack him.

Deleted scenes include an alternate opening where James foils a bank robbery and a phone conversation where Michelle Porter hears Melanie's and James's complaints while trying to sell a house. The couple think she is talking to another buyer and decide to buy the house themselves.

Cast

The New York Times movies listing lists among the cast:[1]

Critical reception

The film received mainly negative reviews from critics. The review aggregator at Rotten Tomatoes reported that 14% of critics gave the film positive reviews.[2] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 34 out of 100, based on 19 reviews.[3] The New York Times gathered positive reviews toward the leading cast's performance. Martin Lawrence received positive reviews from several magazines, Rotten Tomatoes criticized his appearance yet again. 411 Mania gave it a final score of 7.5 out of 10 based on several reviews and managed to give it a positive DVD and film review.[4] The film also received positive reviews from Blue-Ray.com[5], Kansas City Star and several other publications[6] including the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. The film also received negative reviews from USA Today and San Francisco Chronicle.

Box office performance

In its opening weekend, the film grossed approximately $14 million in 2,706 theaters in the United States and Canada, ranking #2 at the box office.[7] As of mid-May 2008, it has earned nearly $45 million domestically so far, pulling in more than other teen fare this year such as Prom Night, which cooled after an initially more successful opening weekend. The movie brought in $13,651,758 on its opening weekend, and continued on to gross $31,117,834 to finish off the month, making it the highest-grossing opening weekend for a film to be released under 2000 screens. The movie is not only the highest-grossing movie on the day of its release, its also the highest-grossing kids movie and highest opening weekend during that month.

The following Monday, it pulled in $2,253,215. Among films that had fewer than 1,000 screens on opening day, the film ranked second.[8] College Road Trip opened with $8.6 million on 683 screens and Borat opened with $9.2 million on 837 screens. It averaged $45,560 per screen in its opening weekend, giving it the highest average per theater of all time for a limited release film. Because of the strong demand, Disney extended the film's run indefinitely.[9] Internationally, the film is set for further release. There were rumors that the Philippines, reporting tickets selling out well in advance of its release and that its run there is extended due to popular demand. But it was never released in Philippine cinemas, and it was planned to go directly to home video.

Development

Production

Scene for College Road Trip being filmed in Stamford, Connecticut

Cinco Paul and partner Ken Daurio wrote the most recent draft. The movie was born out of the Disney Writers Program by Carrie Evans and Emi Mochizuki. The movie was produced by Andrew Gunn/Gunn Films and directed by Roger Kumble.[10]

Filming began July 9, 2007.

Promotion

To promote the movie in the United States, Raven-Symoné appeared on WWE Wrestlemania XXIV, Chelsea Lately, MTV's TRL, Live with Regis and Kelly, The View, BET's 106 & Park, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. The theme song of the movie was "Double Dutch Bus", sung by Raven-Symoné. The music video for the song appeared on Disney Channel and was included in her self-titled album. The music video included scenes from the movie. Disney Channel TV spots were aired promoting the film in the United States.

The first trailer appeared alongside Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium and Enchanted.

Advertising for the film used the tagline "They just can't get there fast enough."

Products

DVD and Blu-Ray release

The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on July 15, 2008. Both the DVD and Blu-ray releases will contain the following bonus features.

  • Deleted scenes including alternate opening and ending
  • "Double Dutch Bus" music video
  • Audio commentary by director Roger Kumble, writers Carrie Evans and Emi Mochizuki, and stars
  • Raven's Video Diary - Tag along on the set of the hot young stars from sensation Disney shows and movies
  • On the Set: Double Dutch Bus - A behind-the-scenes look at the filming of the film's signature song
  • Bloopers
Specification
  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
  • French Language Track
  • French and Spanish Subtitles
  • Full Screen (1:33:1) and Widescreen (2.35:1)

College Road Trip sold 439,809 copies in the first week of release pulling in $8,030,648 of additional revenue for the franchise. It has sold a total of 963,736 copies since its release and made a total of $17,657,289 in DVD sales.

Billboard Top DVD Sales: #2

Billboard Top Video Rentals: #2

Books

In May 2008, Disney Press released a book based on the movie[11] written by Alice Alfonsi. The novel has the printed original movie poster as the cover.

Awards

Year Award Category Result
2008 Teen Choice Award "Choice Comedy Movie" Nominated[12]
Golden Icon Awards/28th Golden Icon Awards "Favourite Teen Movie" Nominated
Summer Fort Myers Beach Film Festival "Fav Summer Teen Flick Comedy" Won

Notes

  • This is the third time Song and Raven-Symoné have worked together. The other projects being an episode of That's So Raven and an episode of The Suite Life Of Zack & Cody.
  • Raven-Symoné (That's So Raven), Song (The Suite Life Of Zack & Cody, Wendy Wu and other Disney projects) , Grabeel (High School Musical series) and Harshman (Even Stevens) have all starred in other Disney projects.

References

  1. ^ New York Times Movies College Road Trip Cast. Accessed 2008-01-25.
  2. ^ "College Road Trip - Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved on 2008-03-07.
  3. ^ "College Road Trip (2008): Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved on 2008-03-07.
  4. ^ College Road Trip review
  5. ^ College Road Trip review
  6. ^ Review
  7. ^ "College Road Trip (2008) - Weekend Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved on 2008-03-16.
  8. ^ '10,000 B.C.' leads box-office hunt with $35.7 million debut
  9. ^ Disney Planning 'College Road Trip' for Blu-ray and XD
  10. ^ Martin Lawrence Will Take a 'College Road Trip'
  11. ^ College Road Trip - Alice (ADP) Alfonsi
  12. ^ Nominees announced (June 17, 2008) Teen Choice Awards. Accessed 2008-11-11.

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