College Road Trip (2008). “In the future all video will be implanted in our brains.”
Just like a proud parent we blinked and made it to 47 episodes! We watched College Road Trip which proved to be a challenging watch with painful acting performances, poor dialogue, and forced heart. Make sure to check out our full episode for our review and discussion.
Storyline : When an overachieving high school student decides to travel around the country to choose the perfect college, her overprotective cop father decides to accompany her to keep her on the straight and narrow.
Director: Roger Kumble
Writers: Emi Mochizuki, Carrie Lee Wilson, Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio
Stars: Martin Lawrence, Raven-Symoné, Kym Whitley, and Adam LeFevre
Awards: None
Film Budget: $13,601,419
Cumulative Worldwide Gross : $51,549,674
The lone song from this film is "Double Dutch Bus". I recall wheels on the bus but never double dutch bus. Does anyone else know this song? Let us know in the comments.
Admissions Test Questions - Did You Know?
Arnetia Walker, who is 9 years older than Martin Lawrence, plays his character's mother.
At about 25 minutes into the movie, Melanie and Nick leave the "Science Library". The sign over the door designates it the "John P. Fedynich Memorial Library". John Fedynich was the movie's location manager.
Eddie Murphy was considered to play James Porter.
At approximately 00:15:05, Albert the pig is briefly near a crayon drawing of the words "SOME PIG". It's a reference to the book "Charlotte's Web," in which the words "SOME PIG" are used to distinguish the uniqueness of Wilbur, the main character.
Eleven pigs played Albert.