Accepted (2006)

Accepted (2006)

5 word summary

College rejects start fake college

After being rejected from every college Bartleby decides to make a fake college to fool his family. A problem with the fake website lets everyone and anyone get enrolled in the college. When everyone starts showing up for their first day of school Bartleby decides to go with it and run his college in a new way.

To start off Accepted is very funny and its also much different then many college comedies. Most college comedies tend to make the whole film about sex and drugs. This film has a point that it sticks to, its fun, but it doesn’t loose track of its moral. It shows how messed up the college system is. How students pay their tuition and take the classes they have to, not the classes they want to. Fraternities treat people terribly, students get stressed, and how everything is a race and it doesn’t pay off for everyone. Many of the points are made while showing Bartleby walking threw the colleges. Other points are made by Lewis Black during his rants.

Justin Long’s performance is one of his best. He is really funny and sarcastic in a way he isn’t in most roles. Lewis Black, though his performance is the same as his stand up, is hilarious and is an important part of the film. Jonah Hill has the best role in the film, he’s hilarious and possibly the funniest he has ever been, even close to Superbad. Almost all the really funny lines come from him and without him the film wouldn’t have been as good

It’s a good, new style of college comedy that was needed to freshen up the otherwise clichéd and predictable genre. A lot of cheap laughs but still a pretty smart comedy.

8/10