The result is "College Road Trip," a sometimes amusing, sometimes overwrought comedy that is just slightly above the ambitions of your typical Disney Channel made-for-TV movie.

Making such a comparison is inevitable becausee the movie, about a dad and his daughter taking a four-day trip to Georgetown University for an admissions interview, is a near-cavalcade of Disney Channel stars.

In addition to Lawrence, who plays the overprotective police chief father James Porter, "That's So Raven" star Raven-Symoné plays his good-natured daughter Melanie. She wants to attend Georgetown over the wishes of Dad, who would rather have her close by at Northwestern.

Rounding out the cast are Brenda Song ("The Suite Life of Zack and Cody") as Melanie's friend and Lucas Grabeel ("High School Musical") as a zany fellow student.

But perhaps the funniest addition is Utah's own Donny Osmond as a boisterous college dad who keeps bumping into - and annoying - the Porters on their trip to Washington, D.C.

It's a road-trip movie no doubt, and that means the ride is fraught with comic antics along the way, including messing up a wedding, getting stuck on a tour bus with karaoke-singing Japanese, and skydiving over a college campus.

It's all contrived, hardly subtle - and therefore not as funny - Disney fodder, but there is a smattering of laughs when Lawrence has to react as the wacky but overconcerned father. Thankfully, he keeps this lighter fare free of his otherwise crude demeanor.

And director Roger Kumble ("Cruel Intentions") tends to paint on the tacky daddy-daughter emotions way too thick, but fathers in the audience with daughters ready to leave the nest are going to identify with the sentiment nonetheless.

This "College Road Trip" may have its share of bumps along the way, but thanks to a sweet Raven-Symoné, a comfortably G-rated Lawrence and an even funnier Osmond satirizing his oh-so-clean image, it's not as bad a trip as you think.

vince@sltrib.com

College Road Trip

* WHERE: Theaters everywhere.

* WHEN: Opens today.

* RATING: G

* RUNNING TIME: 83 minutes.

* BOTTOM LINE: Martin Lawrence stars in this very Disney-esque road trip comedy that's loud, sentimental and only occasionally funny.