areatw 'Accepted' is a fun movie that will satisfy those who are partial to a silly comedy. Everything about this film is ridiculous. The whole thing is set up to cram as many jokes in to the 90 minute running time as it possibly can. Some of them are funny, others less so, but that's what you get with these sort of films.You have to be in the mood for a film like 'Accepted'. If you're not then this is an easy film to hate on, but if a silly comedy is exactly what you're in the mood for then 'Accepted' is definitely worth a watch. It does a decent job at doing what it sets out to do - being completely stupid.

view_and_review "Accepted" is about a small band of high school graduates, led by Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long), that began a college. They say that necessity is the mother of invention. Well, these kids were all rejected from known universities and had to concoct a plan to stave off parental accosting (I guess junior colleges didn't exist in this town). Coincidentally (or not coincidentally) this very thing occurred in Germany in 1948.This movie was mildly funny and really if it weren't for Jonah Hill it would not have been that. Justin Long's style and the played out clichés just didn't do it for me. What clichés? Well, he was rejected by Harmon College which, of course, is full of wealthy xenophobic WASPs who wouldn't even urinate on you if you were on fire if you don't fit their mold. Harmon College and its attendees were the typical over-the-top bourgeois, nose-in-the-air, stuck up group which give the undying impression that all rich people are a-holes. And Bartleby, or B, was the quirky, witty, cliché individualist that flies in the face of the establishment. In other words, a Hollywood plot we've all seen a thousand times.That's not to say that the movie was a total bust and not worth watching. Like I stated, Johan Hill as Sherman Schrader was great. It was interesting enough to see how big he used to be. Lewis Black, for those who like him, was in classic form. The movie had good moments and provided a solid story of a school started by students. It's just Justin Long and the redressed "Revenge of the Nerds" that I didn't like.

raseekrocks I am writing this review mainly because everything, the reviews (a meager 37% on RottenTomatoes, seriously?), the box-office, etc., seem to be against this film, and I feel that this film doesn't deserve any of these "negativity"s. Maybe because I watched this film without any expectation (which seems to be the case with most people who've reviewed this film in IMDb) or because I am a teenager and can relate to it, I really enjoyed this film. I'm a fan of the comedy genre in general, especially of the "feel good" or "energetic comedy" sub-genre-- the ones in which films make you laugh as well as feel good and at the same time inspire you. I know a lot of people railing against this film complain about the general implausibility of the plot, and I do admit that they are right, but seriously, I have never understood why people always want films to have realistic plots. Come on, Lord Of The Rings, Star Wars, Forrest Gump, do any of these have "realistic" plots? Of course not! Yet they are fantastic, really enjoyable! And this film is somewhere along the similar lines. Maybe some of you will feel indignant for my comparing this film to LOTR and Star Wars and Forrest Gump and all, but that's just your cynicism talking! I really enjoyed this movie, and I believe anyone with an open mind and not-so-general-air of cynicism toward teen movies will enjoy it as well. But of course, since I'm a teenager, I can't tell how adults are going to take this film, so I speak only for teens and/or people who enjoy teen movies.PS: This is my first IMDb review. I'm really glad that I wrote my first review for the film that I really liked.

leereddy Accepted is a fun, coming of age comedy about a wisecracking kid named Bartleby who gets rejected from every institute of higher learning he applies to. He then embarks on a ridiculous campaign of deception that basically involves duping his parents into believing that he has been "accepted" at a small, fictitious sister college, which incidentally becomes known as the South Harmon Institute of Technology - a facetious little bit of wordplay resulting in the acronym S.H.I.T. All manner of hi jinx ensue once the ball begins to roll and B's naive master plan begins to spiral out of control. The film inevitably journeys through a standard paint by numbers arc and at no point do you question the outcome, though you may question many of the films very flimsy plot holes. But alas, if you're watching this film for daring originality and surprise story lines then you should probably watch something else. In all it's a film that, demographically speaking, would appeal most to those whose age is close to that of the films characters. And, despite its fatuous story line and lack of any real laugh out loud moments, it still left me smiling. Oh, and a young Blake Lively cropping up at regular intervals certainly helped matters. That said, this film does little to show the potential of Jonah Hill, who seemed yet to have found his comedic feet, so to speak. I'm reluctant to delve too deeply into the films general ethos of "be yourself" and "follow your dreams" etc, because let's face it - it's a PG 13 comedy about a kid who starts his own college.Overall, a benign little film with lots of flaws but still worth a look.