Accepted (2006)

All Critics (123) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (74) | DVD (22)

Even the characters in the movie are saying at the beginning, 'This is crazy. This will never work.' And I'm like, you know what? You're right. It never will. Not for one second. Even in a whacky comedy like this.

August 21, 2006 Full Review | Comments (3)

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

Here's the final mystery about Accepted: Why title a movie that so readily invites the headline Rejected as a critical riposte?

August 19, 2006 Full Review

Peter Howell

Toronto Star

Top Critic

Even though it outright plagiarizes many plot points and gags of that generational classic, Accepted can't make the leap from contrived to genuine comedy.

August 18, 2006 Full Review

Ted Fry

Seattle Times

Top Critic

Go right ahead and skip this one at the Cineplex. You've got my word: It won't be on the final.

August 18, 2006 Full Review | Comment (1)

Joanne Kaufman

Wall Street Journal

Top Critic

If you can lighten up for an hour and a half, the film delivers one good laugh after another.

August 18, 2006 Full Review

Peter Hartlaub

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

It has a few funny bits here and there, but they're deeply mired in the seen-it-all-beforeness of the film.

December 28, 2010 Full Review

Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

Sporadically entertaining but relentlessly lightweight...

May 17, 2007 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Though keeping worthwhile targets - like professors who want to see their most creative students fail - director Steve Pink lets his punk inspiration slide into standard school rivalries and unrelated slapstick.

March 15, 2007 Full Review

Mark Palermo

Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

The movie works on the pure energy of its straight-faced silliness.

March 1, 2007 Full Review

Frank Lovece

Film Journal International

Not a very memorable little college flick.

November 22, 2006 Full Review

Scott Weinberg

DVD Clinic

[Accepted] would be funnier with an R rating on principle

November 12, 2006 Full Review | Comment (1)

Bill Chambers

Film Freak Central

• 1. Bartleby "B" Gaines: I could go to jail.
  2. Uncle Ben: Don't worry, you're young. Your butt can take it.
  – Submitted by Francis L (10 months ago)
• 1. Hoyt Ambrose: You want me to give you something funny to laugh about?
  2. Bartleby "B" Gaines: You mean funnier than your future alcohol abuse?
  3. Glen: BATTLE ROYALE.
  – Submitted by Francis L (10 months ago)
• 1. Uncle Ben: Health insurance my ass! They don't pay for shit. You get sick on a Friday, they only pay from Monday through Thursday. You go to doctor A, they only pay for doctor B. You break your penis, they only fix vaginas!
  – Submitted by Francis L (10 months ago)
• 1. Bartleby "B" Gaines: Schrader, what about you? What do you want to learn?
  2. Sherman Schrader: Well, B, I'm glad you asked actually, 'cause since we're going to prison, I'm gonna learn how to carve a shank out of my toothbrush.
  – Submitted by Francis L (10 months ago)
• 1. Bartleby "B" Gaines: Why'd you get fired?
  2. Glen: I got fired for making a shrimp slushy.
  3. Bartleby "B" Gaines: That's disgusting! Why would you do that pal?
  4. Glen: 'Cause I was hungry and thirsty!
  – Submitted by Francis L (10 months ago)
• 1. Uncle Ben: [to Group] What is learning? It's paying attention. It's opening yourself up to this great big ball of shit that we call life, and what's the worst that could happen? You get bit in the ass. Well let me tell you: my ass looks like hamburger meat, but I can still sit down.
  – Submitted by Francis L (10 months ago)

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