| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 6, 2006

| Original Score: B- | Aug 26, 2006

Listen, while I wish the writers would have been able to keep their momentum up and avoid a few dry spells, there is more than enough going on to the positive these flaws end up becoming fairly moot.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 22, 2006

Even the characters in the movie are saying at the beginning, 'This is crazy. This will never work.' And I'm like, you know what? You're right. It never will. Not for one second. Even in a whacky comedy like this.

Full Review | Aug 21, 2006

Here's the final mystery about Accepted: Why title a movie that so readily invites the headline Rejected as a critical riposte?

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 19, 2006

Even though it outright plagiarizes many plot points and gags of that generational classic, Accepted can't make the leap from contrived to genuine comedy.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 18, 2006

Go right ahead and skip this one at the Cineplex. You've got my word: It won't be on the final.

| Aug 18, 2006

If you can lighten up for an hour and a half, the film delivers one good laugh after another.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 18, 2006

Too bad what begins as a cheerfully irreverent comedy in the tradition of Animal House gets all pious when it slams fraternity culture at neighboring Harmon College.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 18, 2006

A campus comedy that's as dull as bong water, Accepted is like the product of a community college filmmaking class, remedial division.

Full Review | Original Score: .5/4 | Aug 18, 2006

Like its underachieving protagonist, Steve Pink's teen comedy Accepted flashes just enough charm to get by but is too lazy to really make anything of itself.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 18, 2006

Too much of the plot is eaten up with clichd assaults on a stodgy mainstream college and its pretty, gel-afflicted frat boys, who care waaayyy less about the liberal arts than whacking around pledges with a wooden spanker.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 18, 2006

Give the new college comedy Accepted half credit for having the gumption to marry two previously unrelated, seminal classics in American arts and letters.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 18, 2006

Go to school and do your best, but check out Accepted before you go just as a reminder of the glory of rebellious foolishness.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 18, 2006

Like a mediocre high school transcript, the movie has the foundations, but it skimps on the extracurriculars.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 18, 2006

Accepted cannot handle its pretensions toward social commentary.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 18, 2006

Sublimely stupid, this collegiate farce plays like a cross between Animal House and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

| Aug 18, 2006

Accepted is trying to be a new species of Animal House, but at least that 1978 comedy had no pretensions of being more than a boisterous spoof of college life.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 18, 2006

Accepted is for the most part just a juvenile college party movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 18, 2006

Low of brow and pure of heart, the movie plays like Animal House extra-lite, and as such it's decent indecent fun.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 18, 2006