aint bad aint bad, chill movie

years later this still holds up

Best movie I’ve ever seen 1000%

Honestly not the smartest movie as far as sensible plot goes, jokes are hit and miss but the overall message about learning by any means and being rejected doesn't mean you're a failure is fantastic!

Pretty decent story line and all around pretty funny. Jonah Hill was a bit of a wet blanket on the movie and didn't add anything of value like he seems to do in his later movies. As far as a comedy goes it's pretty solid.

This film had an element that similarly resembles a scene in Patch Adams which is the expression of passion and innovation. Justin Long did do a good job in showing an unexpected passion of creating his own school after facing the harsh reality of the education system. It portrays a great symbolism of the unfairness students received from rejection and distrust from their loved ones. It was nice seeing a Blake Lively film from her teenage years, which brings a freshness to the movie profile. There were many cringey and cheesy scenes that were inappropriate. Nevertheless, it indirectly brought the topic of education that should have received more attention.

Buena película, una de las mejores comedias que vi. Esta cinta es una gran comedia que es muy entretenida de principio a fin y presenta una trama interesante con un mensaje profundo y genial que me sorprendió. La historia me parece que esta bien, no tiene mucho sentido a mi parecer ya que es medio raro que abran una universidad falsa como si nada, pero el punto al que quiere llegar la historia me parece muy bueno y necesario. El humor que se presenta a mi parecer funciona, y aunque tiene algunos chistes algo tontos y simples que no me causaron gracia, también tiene unos muy buenos y divertidos, con un humor ingenioso. Una de las cosas que mas me gustaron y me sorprendieron fue el discurso final, el cual deja un mensaje muy bueno con el que muchos jóvenes se pueden sentir identificados, lo que hace que te guste mas la película al no solo ser una cinta de comedia, ya que logra llegar a su objetivo con un poco mas de seriedad. Por otro lado, me gustaría destacar la banda sonora, con temas de la época muy bien usados. También me gustaron mucho las actuaciones, principalmente las de Justin Long, Blake Lively, Jonah Hill, Maria Thayer, etc. En conclusión, una muy buena película de comedia con un mensaje muy bueno para los adolescentes, creo que todos deberían verla ya que no es una cinta mas del genero. La recomiendo.

Very predictable and cheesy

This is one of the best early 2000's movies. The humor is classic college, and Justin Long's awesome physical comedy. The OG Jonah Hill character is absolutely in point and was a great tie in between an elite school and the not so much school. The movie did a good job of showing some of the stresses kids face when looking for a college and joked about higher education in a way that is much needed. Highly recommend.

Solid comedy for sure!

The actual movie is a bit crass but it's an important concept that is used in the unschooling homeschool movement that morphed into UnCollege. Always good to have options! https://www.edutopia.org/blog/uncollege-movement-dale-stephens/

First and Foremost, this is one of the most under the radar gems from the early 2000's that has easily become a classic in the year of 2023. With the consistent miss represented Critics comments on this movie I simply ask: What's wrong with not being serious? This movie is a light comedy and the characters, despite what many think are one dimensional are easily loveable regardless of the force jokes among the cast. While some of these jokes land and others don't, I find myself questioning how this movie didn't reach heights of popularity it deserves. The premise is fun, light-hearted and downright hard to resist enjoying. Everyone can relate to rejection and at its core it teaches the audience, however, unrealistic; that possibilities are out there. We need to stop taking choices made for certain roles and written dialogue so serious in a comedy that wants to be unrealistic for escaping realities sake. Everyone has lied to their parents about something, there are tiny notes of relatability here that is simply overlooked by ridiculous and rash comments about things outside the casts over-arching control. Forced humour or not, this is forever a classic and it demands to be watched once a year. Maybe just to remind us that reaching for our goals is possible and not taking our movie experiences so serious, but rather with appreciation for the hidden tones and downright true lessons that are filmed for the audiences pleasure.

80/100 - justin long actually made a really good main character in this film. hes always been a great supporting actor but this film showed his type of character works as a main character. And jonah hill plays in this before his rise to fame.

Live. Laugh. Love, Justin Long.

It was supposed to be a comedy?

This movie is a lot of fun.

Really entertaining and really funny. Well worth the watch

Filme legal, o roteiro é bacana, o filme trata de um cara que cria uma faculdade junto com seus amigos, o filme tem cenas boas dentro da faculdade e os elenco/demais alunos dessa faculdade ajudam a melhorar o filme, e com isso, eu recomendo esse filme.

Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long) is a persuasive senior from William McKinley High School in Wickliffe, Ohio, who, among other pranks, creates fake IDs. His gifts do not extend to grades, however, and he receives rejection letters from all the colleges to which he applies, including those with high acceptance rates. To gain approval from his demanding father (Mark Derwin), Bartleby creates a fake college, the South Harmon Institute of Technology (SHIT). His best friend, Sherman Schrader III (Jonah Hill), who has been accepted into his father's (Jim O'Heir) prestigious alma mater, Harmon College, aids Bartleby and fellow reject Rory Thayer (Maria Thayer), who only applied to Yale University and was rejected due to legacy preferences; Darryl "Hands" Holloway (Columbus Short), who lost his athletic scholarship after an injury; and Glen (Adam Herschman), who has a low GPA and failed his SAT due to stupidity. To make the "college" seem legitimate, Bartleby convinces Sherman to create a functional website for the school. When his father insists on meeting the dean, Bartleby hires Sherman's peculiar uncle, Dr. Ben Lewis (Lewis Black), a former philosophy professor at Harmon College, to play that role, and he leases an abandoned psychiatric hospital adjacent to Harmon College and renovates it to look like a college campus. Their plan backfires when the website, which automatically accepts any applicant, enrolls hundreds of other rejected students. Bartleby realizes that these people have nowhere else to go, so he lets them believe that the school is real, a place where they will finally feel accepted, despite objections from his friends. After a visit to Harmon disenchants him with traditional college life, he decides to let the students create their own curriculum; this ranges from the culinary arts, sculpting, meditation, to unusual courses such as psychokinesis, a subject one eccentric kid (Jeremy Howard) wishes to study... Rotten Tomatoes critical consensus reads, "Like its characters who aren't able to meet their potential, Accepted's inconsistent and ridiculous plot gets annoying, despite a few laughs". Throughout the years there´s been so many attempts to create entertaining high school/college films which never reached up to any standard of for example "Animal House". There´s been too many sad sad attempts. "Accepted" is however a college film with a bit of entertainment value in a very lighthearted way, despite the fact that the plotline is pretty much unrealistic. "Accepted" doesn´t really go the "under the belt" college way which is quite refreshing and there´s actually a message (criticism towards the obsession with traditional education undermining the ability of self discovery) in this film which is also refreshing. The Bartleby Gaines character fits Justin Long, Jonah Hill does this normal character and it´s nice to see the lovely Blake Lively as Monica. "Accepted" is ok and entertaining despite flaws.

A movie that achieves what it set out to do, and that is provide smiles and chuckles the whole way through. A great concept for a film and although it has a few cheap lines and premises, it never loses track and is highly enjoyable.