Raven Symone

The future head of the would-be Raven-Symone Enterprises or Raven-Symone Inc. sits in a Toluca Lake diner, chewing ice out of a plastic cup, outlining her plans for world domination. "I want to have a record label and a licensing company," declares Raven-Symone. "I want to have a publishing company and a management company where I can launch all kinds of artists. I want to do everything." After a brief pause, Raven-Symone delivers the bottom line, without a trace of irony: "I want to be Disney."

"College Road Trip" is the kind of movie that its audiences will use for blowing off steam and then toss aside as if it were shrink-wrap. This conscientiously juvenile farce, in which an overprotective oaf of a father (Martin Lawrence) shepherds his daughter (Raven-Symone) to a college interview far from home, closes off genuine emotional investment by over-inflating, even excusing its characters' boorish behavior. Lawrence has pulled off this mugging man-child act for so long now that you can leave for refreshments in the middle of his shtick not only feeling you haven't missed much, but able to play your own fill-in-the-missing-Martin-Lawrence-bits game when you return to your seat.

Raven-Symone wanted to talk "Cheetah." The 20-year-old star of Disney Channel's longest-running series, "That's So Raven," was holding court during the TV industry's press tour at the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel in Pasadena on Monday and was not about to be dissuaded from the task at hand: promoting the August premiere of "The Cheetah Girls 2."