Accepted

I really enjoyed this movie. The comedy was good but I also think the movie was thought provoking. The first time I watched this was years ago while I was in college and I too felt like our current education system was a scam. We're forced to take classes we have no interest in and students are exploited with all types of fees and charges. College is a business now plain and simple. Schools could really careless about the students. I rewatched this movie today(I'm now 27 and a college grad) and I still feel like college was an absolute joke. Thankfully I had a great college experience but the education aspect of it was hilarious. Props to this movie for maybe inspiring someone to think outside the box. Being normal is overrated.

I am 57 now but when I first went to college (I have 3 Bachelors of Science Degrees) I took proficiency exams in many courses to skip them, already being self taught beforehand. Professors all have PHD's yet they only teach from the given curriculum or book. Why not just learn the material from the book and by pass professors entirely? Is it fair that if you were born in a wealthy household or your parents are alumni that you get special consideration or approval? Is it fair that athletes get scholarships regardless of their ability to excel scholastically? Universities have long been suspect to being nothing more than a money making scam; yes even (especially) you ivy leagues. With the year of COVID now and many opting to be home schooled on the internet I believe many are now seeing that Universities have mostly become obsolete. People do have the ability to learn themselves without any guidance as long as they have the proper materials and motivations. This learning will stay with them longer because they learned on their own path and not bored by monotonous professors lullabying you to sleep. All it really amounts to in the end is holding or framing that little scrap of paper and not what you have learned or what you know.

I originally saw this movie back when it first came out in theater. I got pre-showing tickets to it and saw it with my Dad. The movie was so funny. It even got my dad to crack up. So much ridiculous actions and situations occur. Accepted is probably the best executed teenage coming-of-age film since Ferris Bueller's Day Off, so needless to say its a great movie. When Justin Long isn't accepted to any of the eight schools to which he's applied, Bartleby Gaines decides to create his own school--the South Harmon Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T.). To make it look legit, he has Jonah Hill's character create a website that with the school's mission statement and everything else to look real. Then other rejected students see the website and wind up applying. Before he knows it the school has more than three hundred students with paid tuition and he has to design a curriculum.

If you ever attended college and wondered why you were forced to study some of the drivel you were to pursue your ultimate dream, this movie is for you! Yeah, it's just a far-out comedy, not at all based in reality, but how cool it would be if it WERE possible! The vulgarity could offend some, but if you can get past that, you'll enjoy this fresh look at higher education.

First off, kudos to Jonah Hill for losing so much weight! Forgot how fat that boy was. Justin Long is charming, Blake Lively is beautiful, and the movie was enjoyable to watch. Not sure if it was as deep as some viewers thought, ie; traditional colleges pigeon hole their students and a more free form structure which treated everyone as individuals would work better. I don't think that is an accurate assessment but at least they had a viewpoint. But back to the movie-it was fast paced and silly and it was worth two hours of my time.

This film stands along other excellent college films with no flaws such as Revenge of the Nerds, Porkys, and Screwballs. In addition it stands as perhaps the most realistic film about college life. I think a mild complaint must be registered at the poor decision to cast Blake Lively as the female lead. It's not that she is a terrible actor, but she is not the best, and the starkness of contrast in her acting ability when compared to that of savants Justin Long, Jonah Hill, and Lewis Black is like staring into the Grand Canyon. And, to much chagrin, her she remains fully clothed at all times.

I loaned this movie to a friend and when he returned it, I got the feeling he wanted to hurt me for making him watch it. Of course, I feel that way about some of the stuff he tells me is great too (when I can truthfully testify it is pure garbage).Accepted is a cute story of a slacker youth (Justin Long) that finds that he couldn't get 'accepted' into any of his choice of colleges. Faced with the possibility of being heavily admonished by his parents for not having something to do with his life, he and his friends proceed to get him accepted into a college that they create out of thin air.What follows is a sweet story of creating a home for those that didn't have one before, all of the other youth out there that don't fit in. A free form education platform that just might work.Also included in the cast is the always acerbic and always funny Lewis Black (who I just can't get enough of) passing on life lessons to the students.Well worth adding to my video collection, and highly recommended for others as well.

This is by far one of my favorite movies. One failure's plot to trick his parents becomes something successful and all the 'failures' join together to create something powerful that cannot be taken down by the 'successful.' The film is well made with a good plot and plenty of twists and turns. Well worth the watch.

This is perhaps on instantly forgetable feature but the cast members who will be familiar from other features or TV, Ed or Superbad, play to their strengths and its a fun feature.As a feature this has much more in common with more traditional US college humour or fare such as the Animal House or Dazed and Confused like that than more recent movies like American Pie, Old Skool etc. There are only one or two sexually references in the humour and it never becomes vulgar or gross out.In a party gig sequence there is a revamped version of Dont You Forget About Me playing out.There are themes about the commercialisation of college, expectations and experience in buying an education and the idea of a fun college vs. elite fraternity hell, although it is all played for laughs and entertainment value. It is a funny feature and without plunging any depths of profoundity is engaging enough to keep viewing attention, the "good guys" are sympathetic and the "villains" unlikeable but not despicable in an unrealistic way.I would recommend this to anyone, particularly fans of any of the films I've mentioned already.

Best Film ever made about College you'll be left with the impression - where do i sign up? And How come? real college isn't like this? if it were, kids would be banging on the doors to get in. Maybe all educators of kids should be made to watch this movie, on how to inspire kids, to follow their dreams...

A good comedy

This film is amazing, I think when faced in the world of work uni college and growing up it is definitely scary, but worst of all not getting into uni is upsetting for you and your parents but this film shows how these teenagers faced with not getting into any uni they come up with there own and help teenagers like themselves have the uni experience that you wouldn't get in a normal uni. Definitely one to watch with the family.

I only bought this because Robin Lord Taylor is in it. It is quite funny.