Bad Bus Movie Showdown

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The Contenders:

College Road Trip

vs.

Step Up 2 The Streets

Educational Setting:

Road Trip: Northwestern, Georgetown

The Streets: Maryland School of the Arts, The Streets

Winner: The Streets

Ethnic Diversity:

Road Trip: Donny Osmond

The Streets: Plucky group of multicultural misfits

Winner: The Streets

Music:

Road Trip: Protagonist sings "Double Dutch", Donny Osmond

The Streets: Some hip-hop music, salsa, and a DJ who resembles the love child of Busta Rhymes and Bootsy Collins

Winner: Road Trip

Mascots:

Road Trip: Superintelligent pig

The Streets: Scrawny white kid with big hair

Winner: Road Trip

Asian Stereotype:

Road Trip: Bus full of karaoke-singing Japanese tourists

The Streets: Krumping foreign-exchange student who came to the US to learn about hip-hop

Winner: Road Trip

Ridiculousness:

Road Trip: Father and daughter skydive to Georgetown

The Streets: Despite humiliating the leader of the rival crew via teh Internets, none of the main characters manages to get stabbed or shot

Winner: The Streets

Predictability:

Road Trip: Daughter gets into Georgetown, father comes to terms with the fact that his little girl is growing up, Donny Osmond

The Streets: Group of multicultural misfits "brings it" and wins the big competition

Winner: Road Trip

Lesson learned:

Road Trip: Parents have to let their kids go when they grow up

The Streets: Anyone can dance, even scrawny white kids who go to a fancy school

Me: Bring headphones next time so I can ignore this crap

Winner: Someone had to make money off these awful, awful movies, right?