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83It's one of the few genuinely funny comedies in a dismal movie summer.
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75If you can lighten up for an hour and a half, the film delivers one good laugh after another.
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70Sweetly amusing, gently anarchic and never mean-spirited.
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67Accepted's winning dumbness and breezy bons mots save it from the pit.
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63Low of brow and pure of heart, the movie plays like "Animal House" extra-lite, and as such it's decent indecent fun.
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60After a very funny start, there just isn't enough content to fill the feature-length curriculum.
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60How much you join in will depend on how big a fan you are of the collegiate comedy formula, how many times you've seen "Animal House" and "Caddyshack," and how much you hate Long in those smarmy Mac commercials.
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60An absurd little trifle, but it does have a kind of buoyant, punky energy.
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A mildly funny PG-13 effort that is just dying to release an R- or unrated DVD version of itself. That way all the pool party sequences can lay off the false modesty.
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50Even if you're willing to overlook the preposterous plot holes in its premise, Accepted pushes its luck in its final half-hour.
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50Like 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.
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50Paradoxically fast-talking and laid back, Long's Bartleby appears to be the illegitimate child of Groucho Marx and Ferris Bueller, one whose schemes are far more impressive than his deeds.
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50If all this were anarchically funny, its shambling idiocy could be forgiven.
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50Mostly, it wallows in partying with a capital P.
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50One could argue that you shouldn't expect a teen comedy to offer a nuanced depiction of the role of education in public life, but in response I'd refer you to "Election" and "Clueless."
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50The humour in Accepted is maddeningly safe.
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50While I have no problem with slackers making me laugh, when they start preaching, that's when my ears close and my eyes roll.
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Accepted is an inspired premise in search of a movie: What starts out as a scabrous takedown of academic bureaucracy ends up yet another modestly rousing underdog story about the little slacker that could.
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Accepted will make for a passable alternative to sold-out shows of "Snakes on a Plane," but it's a disappointing debut for the director Steve Pink.
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50Sublimely stupid.
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50The ideal viewer of Accepted probably won't have seen any college comedies before. Or any slobs-vs.-snobs movies like "Caddyshack." For those who have, it's kind of a snore.
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42Has neither the raucous energy and impudence of "Animal House," the defiance of "If ...," nor the grace and wit of "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle."
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40Mildly amusing at best and a criminal waste of a great concept.
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Take the cast of 1978's "Animal House" and 1984's "Revenge of the Nerds," toss them on a desert island, watch them breed and enroll their raucous, kvetching offspring at a college for rejects. A fluffy teen comedy, Accepted gets annoying fast.
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Go right ahead and skip this one at the Cineplex. You've got my word: It won't be on the final.
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It's an obvious nod to "Rock 'n' Roll High School" that mostly serves as a grim reminder of how far comedies about the education system have fallen.
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A campus comedy that's as dull as bong water, Accepted is like the product of a community college filmmaking class, remedial division.
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Louis'sbrother8Not the funniest movie I've seen, but hilarious nonetheless. Definently worth buying.