| 83 |
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
It's one of the few genuinely funny comedies in a dismal movie summer.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
If you can lighten up for an hour and a half, the film delivers one good laugh after another.
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| 70 |
Variety
Justin Chang
Sweetly amusing, gently anarchic and never mean-spirited.
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| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly
Scott Brown
Accepted's winning dumbness and breezy bons mots save it from the pit.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Low 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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| 60 |
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
How 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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| 60 |
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
An absurd little trifle, but it does have a kind of buoyant, punky energy.
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| 60 |
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
After a very funny start, there just isn't enough content to fill the feature-length curriculum.
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| 50 |
Village Voice
Scott Foundas
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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| 50 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
The 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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| 50 |
Premiere
Ethan Alter
One 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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| 50 |
The New York Times
Nathan Lee
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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| 50 |
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Mostly, it wallows in partying with a capital P.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Sublimely stupid.
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| 50 |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
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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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
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.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Even 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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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Paradoxically 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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| 50 |
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
While 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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| 50 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Stephen Cole
The humour in Accepted is maddeningly safe.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
If all this were anarchically funny, its shambling idiocy could be forgiven.
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| 42 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Has 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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| 40 |
Washington Post
Adriane Quinlan
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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| 40 |
Empire
Simon Braund
Mildly amusing at best and a criminal waste of a great concept.
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| 30 |
Wall Street Journal
Joanne Kaufman
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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| 20 |
Austin Chronicle
Brian Clark
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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| 12 |
New York Post
Kyle Smith
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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