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Derek Malcolm's rating
Terrible racket on the road
By
Derek Malcolm
21 Aug 2008
I can't remember a noisier comedy than this effort starring Martin Lawrence.
He plays police chief James Porter, the suffocating father of clever Melanie (Raven-Symoné).
He is determined to send her to a nearby college so that he can keep a protective eye on her. She wants the best, not the nearest, so the family embark on a road trip to find the one to suit her.
Lawrence, unlike Steve Carell, has a rubbery face that makes a large number of strange expressions on the way to a grossly sentimental realisation that his daughter must live her own life.
Meanwhile, just about the whole cast - which includes Donny Osmond and Molly Ephraim as a ghastly white couple who persist in singing along to almost every circumstance - mug their way furiously throughout, screaming like demented hyenas, past screenplay, plot and quickfire editing from director Roger Kumble.
Pleasure, pain, fright and horror elicit the same howling response.
It's sort of funny - like a joke that has become amusing again because it is repeated so many times. Stuff your ears with cotton wool all the same.
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Are you sure you saw this movie? It was pretty good/funny....and Donny Osmond and Molly Ephrain did not play a "couple"...he played her father. He made the movie worthwhile!
- Cristina Garcia, Huntersville, NC, 22/08/2008 03:41
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