PG-13
Starring: Justin Long, Blake Lively, Jonah Hill, Lewis Black
Released: 2006
Genre (IMDB): Comedy
Synopsis (IMDB): After receiving his latest college rejection letter, senior Bartleby Gaines devises a novel way to fool everyone into thinking his college-bound: Open his own university. Bartleby and his similarly stymied friends take over an abandoned building, create a fake web site, hire a friend’s uncle to pose as the dean, and –presto – a school is born. However, they do their jobs too well, and soon many other rejects try to gain admittance to the nonexistent South Harmon Institute of Technology.
Cait’s Review:
If you’re looking to turn your brain off and enjoy some cheap entertainment, Accepted is a pretty good option. It will make you laugh, and won’t make you think. There’s nothing deep here. What you see is what you get. It also calls for a serious suspension of disbelief. There’s a college in their hometown that somehow they’ve never heard of? No one (except the little sister) thinks it’s weird that Bartleby seems to be in charge? Sure… Ok… Still, it has some good laughs. It’s a good movie to put on what you just want to relax!
Cait’s gives it: B+
Joe’s Synopsis:
“An underachieving anarchist attempts to turn his small town on its head through the use of subversive indoctrination and firebombing.”
Joe’s Review:
This is a solid “wet comedy”, the opposite of a dry comedy. All of the humor is on the surface, no subcontext. I love Justin Long, and if I ever get to meet him in person, I’d look at him and say to myself “that’s Justin Long” and then look at the walls of the room if he made eye contact. I’m going off on a bit of a tangent here, but that guy can play a highschooler better than Mark-Paul Gosselaar. It’s got poop jokes, hints at nudity, and John Cusack’s lesser-known sister. Good for a laugh, better for a background movie.
Joe Gives it: 3/5 (C-) (rev: legit review)