Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 110
Fresh: 40 | Rotten: 70
Like its characters who aren't able to meet their potential, Accepted's inconsistent and ridiculous plot gets annoying, despite a few laughs.
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 21
Like its characters who aren't able to meet their potential, Accepted's inconsistent and ridiculous plot gets annoying, despite a few laughs.
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When the weight of rejection begins to set in after being denied entry to every college he has applied to, a high school burnout attempts to placate his mom and dad and win the heart of his dream girl by scheming with his friends to create a fake university in a hilarious comedy of artificial education directed by Steve Pink and starring Justin Long. Bartleby "B" Gaines (Long) is a high school senior whose street smarts just never seemed to translate into the classroom, and whose bad luck in
Aug 18, 2006 Wide
Nov 14, 2006
$36.3M
Universal Pictures
All Critics (122) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (73) | 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.
Here's the final mystery about Accepted: Why title a movie that so readily invites the headline Rejected as a critical riposte?
Go right ahead and skip this one at the Cineplex. You've got my word: It won't be on the final.
If you can lighten up for an hour and a half, the film delivers one good laugh after another.
Too bad what begins as a cheerfully irreverent comedy in the tradition of Animal House gets all pious when it slams fraternity culture at neighboring Harmon College.
Half-witted it may be, but as back-to-school time-killers go, Accepted's right on the edge of acceptable.
It has a few funny bits here and there, but they're deeply mired in the seen-it-all-beforeness of the film.
Sporadically entertaining but relentlessly lightweight...
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.
The movie works on the pure energy of its straight-faced silliness.
Not a very memorable little college flick.
[Accepted] would be funnier with an R rating on principle
Average comedy that's low on jokes and doesn't quite live up to its premise, though it remains watchable thanks to a charming performance by Justin Long.
Quirky teen comedy. Funny and inventive. I quite liked it.
June 23, 2011Super Reviewer
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