College Road Trip 大学之旅 英语影评

Eyes popping and mouths agape, Martin Lawrence and Raven-Symoné 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.

The latest in a genre that defines comedy as nothing more than extreme overreaction, the movie hangs its feeble plot on James Porter (Mr. Lawrence), a domineering police chief who’d like to see his teenage daughter, Melanie (Raven-Symoné), on permanent lockdown. Doting to the point of derangement, James has already chosen her college — Northwestern — based on its proximity to home and his smothering attentions. Sensibly, Melanie plans to interview at Georgetown; naturally, Daddy insists on driving; thankfully, the movie’s target audience will be too young to have heard of Freud.

Directed by Roger Kumble (who has fallen very far from “Cruel Intentions”), “College Road Trip” trawls for laughs with a chess-playing pig and a bus filled with karaoke-singing Japanese tourists. As James crashes a wedding and storms a sorority house (to rescue Melanie from ... a pajama party), his obsession with her borders on the disturbing. By the time Donny Osmond and Molly Ephraim show up to play a parent-child combo that’s scarier than the one embodied by Anthony Perkins in “Psycho,” you’ll be wishing that the pig had eaten the screenplay.

COLLEGE ROAD TRIP

Opens on Friday nationwide.

Directed by Roger Kumble; written by Emi Mochizuki, Carrie Evans, Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio; director of photography, Theo van de Sande; edited by Roger Bondelli; music by Edward Shearmur; production designer, Ben Barraud; produced by Andrew Gunn; released by Walt Disney Pictures. Running time: 1 hour 23 minutes. This film is rated G.

WITH: Martin Lawrence (James Porter), Raven-Symoné (Melanie), Donny Osmond (Doug), Brenda Song (Nancy), Eshaya Draper (Trey), Kym E. Whitley (Michelle), Arnetia Walker (Grandma Porter), Margo Harshman (Katie) and Molly Ephraim (Wendy).