College Road Trip: Critic Reviews

38%

MovieWeb: 2 reviews

13%

RottenTomatoes: 71 reviews

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Adam Markovitz Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

50

College Road Trip is at its best when it drops any pretense of plot for sheer goof, and at its worst when Lawrence manages to out-ham even his porky four-legged costar.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times (Top Critic)

20

Eyes popping and mouths agape, Martin Lawrence and Raven-Symone 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.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

20

Sentimental and chillingly brain-dead family comedy.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

25

College Road Trip is nearly as hellish as taking a long trip with a bus full of karaoke-happy tourists. Actually, that's one of the gags.
Full Review » 4 years ago
John Anderson Washington Post (Top Critic)

Not that we expected much, when all is said and done. But College Road Trip ran out of ideas just after they came up with the title and had the inevitable meeting.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Ethan Gilsdorf Boston Globe (Top Critic)

38

It's a dark day indeed when a movie's funniest moments involve Donny Osmond.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Darel Jevens Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

13

College Road Trip is the best Martin Lawrence/Raven-Symone/Donny Osmond vehicle ever made.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

38

Not since Bob Crane put his dubious smirk to work in Disney's Superdad a generation ago has this particular set-up seemed quite so hoary.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Andrea Gronvall Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

The comedian Sinbad once said that Hollywood seeks out original talents but then tries to make them just like everyone else. A case in point is Martin Lawrence.
Full Review » 4 years ago
David Hiltbrand Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

25

The whole project is a cloying, artificial mess. The slapstick comedy doesn't bite, and the formulaic sentimentality doesn't grip. This is strictly phi beta crappa.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Justin Chang Variety (Top Critic)

The two leads have considerable screen appeal and decent chemistry, but are ill served by the material's sitcomish beats and mawkish resolution.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Kyle Smith New York Post (Top Critic)

38

College Road Trip is better than most Martin Lawrence movies -- much as strep throat is better than malaria.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

20

Full Review » 3 years ago
Philip Marchand Toronto Star (Top Critic)

38

When all else fails, and the last faint possibility of comedy has vanished, the director turns on the sentiment.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Jason Anderson Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

63

College Road Trip may be mawkish and predictable, but some well-staged gags and several memorable contributions by supporting players keep the sap from getting too sticky.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

Families seem to be extremely tolerant of taxing movie car trips. Perhaps the trick is that everyone is simply glad it's happening to another family and not theirs.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Tom Meek Boston Phoenix

Full Review » 3 years ago
Steve Davis Austin Chronicle

30

A Disney production that would seemingly be more at home on the Disney Channel than in the local multiplex.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Nathan Rabin AV Club

17

Martin Lawrence's long, sad devolution from the poor man's young Eddie Murphy to the poor man's late-period Eddie Murphy continues.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Tenley Woodman Boston Herald

50

Full Review » 4 years ago
Jonathan W. Hickman Entertainment Insiders

50

To put it bluntly, this trip isn't worth taking for the vast majority of movie-goers.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Derek Adams Time Out

17

Even with a brief running time, 'College Road Trip' is an ordeal that even its target audience will find dispiritingly lame.
Full Review » 4 years ago
James Christopher Times [UK]

40

There isn't an ounce of real life between here and Somers Town.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Christopher Tookey Daily Mail [UK]

0

This is one of those churn-'em-out Disney comedies in which every performer seems to be competing to give the most annoying performance in cinematic history.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Stella Papamichael Film4

20

Martin Lawrence sits sheepishly low behind the wheel for this meandering drive through comedy hell.
Full Review » 4 years ago