Accepted

2006 "When every college turned them down. . . they made one up."
6.4| 1h33m| PG-13| en
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A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.

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AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.
Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
Candida It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
hyoga_saint I learned after watching the movie that a fair share of scenes were improvised. Not too surprising. While that could have made for some very funny lines, in this instance it gave us a comedy scarce on the laughs and that's barely held together at the seams.I did not have high expectations coming into this, but I at least hoped for some entertainment. The idea had potential, but the plot and turns are very by-the-numbers and the people behind it, like the students in the movie, were apparently content half-assing it."Accepted" is fairly harmless. Nothing too raunchy or gross, no drugs or sex. The high jinx here is pretty tame, and so is the movie. The villains are not that villainous, the rowdy bunch of outcast students, not that rebellious. It's all just bland.I wonder if in more capable hands some of the actors would have shined a little more. We know Jonah Hill is able to be much better. Justin Long was fairly earnest, but his lack of charisma far too evident. Lewis Black's character was just a waste of time.Perhaps the only to come out well here is Blake Lively, who in spite of the dialogue, gives a sympathetic, bright performance, but I'm gasping at straws here. This rather forgettable movie is watchable, but neither funny nor particularly entertaining.(+) A few good actors who have done better work elsewhere: Hill, Lively, Thayer. The concept had potential .(-) Wasted potential. Bland movie. Barely there script, with nothing much happening. Meh.
rajatshanu64 some movie is looking over reality like this one a guy making fool his parents that he accepted in a university which is fake and made by him in a old dirty place with help of some friend and many student comes there to get admission when his friend made website about university and they all happy because they can do whatever they want they don't need to study about a subject who they don't want they have freedom to choose any subject even it's exist in course or not thinking is good as movie little inspiration and really can i guy do this in real world is very big anything can possible accept this one haha but a good movie i enjoyed it and i feel joyful when in last his university was approved by government
higherall7 There are characters in movies that I immediately identify with and I must admit Bartleby Gaines is one of them. I felt the same pang of recognition as when I watched Jimmy Rabbitte organize his Soul Music Band in Dublin, Ireland in 'The Commitments', or when I watched the little shoeshine boy challenge The Cincinnati Kid to a game of pitching pennies at the end of that movie. 'Hey, that's like me!' or 'Yeah! That's like something I would do!' The truth is 'winging it' has its limitations and sooner or later every student of this subject must eventually pay the piper, no matter how artistic or expert he becomes with this form of discipline. But we true believers of the Faith love it when we see anyone confront a difficult situation with spontaneous creativity rather than the rules or guidelines that come out of some standard textbook. Any artistically inclined person easily relates to the type of creative energy and thinking outside of the box that proves to be Bartleby Gaines' forte. While also appreciating how such aptitudes when not properly supervised can lead to the ill gotten gains of the Confidence Artist amongst others.This movie has lots of nice bits of business in it that brought to mind Robert Donat's improvised speech while on the run from the long arm of the Law in 'The Thirtynine Steps' or Bill Murray's declaration in the middle of the movie 'Quick Change' when he stumbles into a den of thieves and states 'We came for the MONEY!'. You can't help but root for Bartleby and his gang of college rejects as they work the system on behalf of rejects everywhere.Some people love to uphold and defend the Status Quo and other folks are born and bred to defy it. This film lightly explores the uneasy tension between these two groups with often hilarious results. The premise may seem improbable, but I seem to remember when some upstarts seeking the rights and privileges of titled gentlemen and freedom from the Royal Elite thought they could take on the whole of the British Empire and win out. We all know what happened to them. I think all this occurred in some backwater on the East Coast of North America centuries ago.Anyway, the concepts of inclusion and exclusion, inculcating learning to serve the needs of the society at large through authoritarian means and tailoring learning to serve the needs of the individual and the soul on a non-authoritarian basis, are played upon in the scatological vein for laughs and touches upon some interesting insights without putting a damper on any of the fun. There are even a couple of wry nods made to the principles of 'Teaching With Love and Logic' although if you blink you'll miss them.The ending comes across as the adolescent's version of 'Mister Smith Goes to Washington', but I think I've said enough. You'll either go with the premise of this wacky College Comedy or write it off as infantile hogwash.I have a warm sense of amusement inside every time I think of this movie myself.
benjamin-petrinec College. Parties. Primitive humor.You have seen it already, in a lot of movies, but there is nothing wrong with that.The movie has an unique twist to it. And it is frankly quite entertaining in its own way.I love the whole idea behind it, because I'm sure a lot of people get in the same situation when it comes to college. Some go, some don't, but this movie gives a cool "fantasy" aspect that can be only done in movies.Watch it if you want to chill around, and have a few laughs.