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Starring:
Justin Long, Blake Lively, Maria Thayer, Anthony Heald, Lewis Black, Jonah Hill, Columbus Short, Adam Herschman, Adam Herschman
Directed By:
Steve Pink
Written By:
Adam Cooper, Mark Perez, Bill Collage
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Accepted (2006)
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Movie Review by Chris
July 21st, 2008
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After being rejected from every college he applied, Bartleby Gaines decided to create a fictitious university, South Harmon Institute of Technology, with his friends, to fool their parents. But when their deception works too well and every other college rejects starts to apply to his school, B. must find a way to give the education and future his students and friends deserves, including his own, while trying to win the heart of the girl next door.
Accepted, directed by Steve Pink, is actually more then your average everyday teen comedy film. Starring Justin Long, Jonah Hill and Columbus Short, this is the story of a group of kids who have all been rejected from every college thel applied to. So when Bartleby gets the idea to start hjis own college in order to impress his parents, things go right and wrong. I have to admit that the plot to this film is actually pretty impressive because I have a very active and plotful imagination and never have I thought about a film where people create their own college. The one thing though is that he is not just creating this for personal reasons, but to impress his parents. Bartelby's dad seems to think that Bartlebu is just lazy and will do nothing with his life, but in the end Bartleby does prove his dad wrong, but it creates a nice character story along wth the plot.
Justin Long recently played in Live Free or Die Hard alongside of Bruce Willis. He did excellent in there and put on one of the more serious performancs of his career. With Accepted, we get an even funnier side to him, though most of the jokes are stunts or something other actors like Jonah Hill do, his performance is funny and it really resembles the true character of most young adults in todays society. Jonah Hill is probably one of the funniest actors alive right not, since Will Farrell is slowly sinking into the ridiculous level of things, Jonah plays one of the smaller roles in Accepted. A lot of more of the funnier jokes are his though as he is picked on by frats in the college he is attecnding and other things, he s the funniest man in the entire movie.
Instead of being just a comedy film, it's the story of how people can try and try to succeed no matter what people tell them. If Bartleby never started this fake college to make his parents happy for him, these kids wouldve never gained the self respect or self achievement to think they got into a school. So Bartleby ends up asking these kids what they want to learn and everything and in the end, when they face the schoolboard, they see that them starting this school is actually changing the face of schools all around the world because they actually let the kids choose what they want to do instead of taking constant control over them.
So Accepted is a funny movie, at times. Sometimes its dumb and doesnt really grab your attention, but I liked the movie in the end.
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