I've seen funny movies before in my life recently, my favorites have been The 40 Year Old Virgin, Wedding Crashers, and most recently a little movie called Accepted! Accepted is so funny and so classic, I'm saying something very strong it's this generation's Animal House. I know, I know
them's fightin' words in some places, but it truly has that element to the movie a college setting, tons of laughs, tons of gags, and some pretty hot women (including Blake Lively). What makes Accepted even better, it packs in the laughs with a PG-13 rating. Believe me, there are plenty of things that happen that don't make it seem like a PG-13 in fact, I truly kept thinking that I couldn't believe it wasn't an 'R' when I saw it.
The film stars Justin Long as Bartleby 'B' Gaines, a senior in high school who's been trying to get accepted into any college. Unfortunately, he ends up not getting into any, much to the disappointment of his parents (especially his father). After his best friend, Sherman (Jonah Hill) finds out he's going to Harmon College, B has enough.
He decides the only way he'll ever please his parents is by getting accepted, so he decides to make up his own college to fool them. He has Sherman build a fake website, he's written a fake acceptance letter, and convinced his mom and dad that the South Harmon Institute of Technology wants Bartleby Gaines as a student.
If you haven't figured out already, the acronym for the school S.H.I.T. yes, you're reading that correctly. You see, B didn't think about the name too long; but, he's fooled his parents enough into thinking he's made it to a school and so his father gives him a check for $10,000.
Of course, not thinking again, B must think of a way to fool the folks one more time there's orientation and meeting with the dean and the professors of the school. He uses that money from his dad and rents out an old abandoned hospital with his other buddies, Roxy (Maria Thayer), Glen (Adam Herschman), Hands (Columbus Short), and Sherman. One of the most hilarious things in the film is when they first go inside the hospital to clean it up, Sherman screams uncontrollably reacting to a fake body falling from the ceiling - the noise that comes out of his mouth is priceless!
The comedy continues when Lewis Black arrives on the screen; he plays the 'dean' of the South Harmon Institute of Technology. When a stint as a full-time professor at Harmon College didn't go as well as he expected, he was fired. If you've ever heard or seen the comic styles of Lewis, then you know he's got classic rants about anything and everything; he's most famous for his appearances on The Daily Show and his stand-up comedy tour. But, man does he know how to make you laugh.
I'll warn you now anytime he is on the screen, do not have anything in your mouth cause it'll end up on the head of the person sitting in front of you and I don't mean in a nasty way. You'll be laughing so hard, you won't be able to keep your mouth closed!! With his parents happy, B is able to sit back and have fun.
What ends up happening, there was a glitch on the South Harmon Institute of Technology website Sherman created it turns out, by clicking in the 'Everyone Gets Accepted' box, everyone got accepted. As he and his friends are sitting around playing video games a knock at the door hundreds of kids who clicked on the S.H.I.T. website are waiting outside, each with their $10,000 tuition money. Without being ready, B and his crew must figure out a way to house these 'new students.' Of course, he also must now figure how to tell these people that this isn't a real school.
Instead, he comes up with the plan to run the school have the kids pick their own classes, and use the money they gave him for tuition to throw massive parties every night. And those classes - Slacking 101, Free Thinking 347 - the list goes on, but the gags keep rolling in!
In Accepted, the antagonist is the real dean from Harmon College, Richard Van Horne (Anthony Heald). His plans are to turn Harmon College into an exclusive 'gentleman's college' like Harvard or Yale only accepting the very best. To achieve his goal, the land where the South Harmon Institute of Technology must go. When B doesn't go along with those plans, Van Horne does a little digging and finds out the truth about the college that it's not real.
Accepted marks Justin Long's first role as the stand-out lead he takes it and runs with it, just as B runs with his ideas for running his own school. There are some things Sherman gets into, trying to fit in with his potential fraternity brothers; Jonah Hill plays the part you feel for him and you laugh at him. And if you ever see him on the streets don't forget to 'ask him about his wiener.'
There are really some moments in this movie that I have watched over and over and over again and just laugh and I laugh hard every time I see them, and you will, too!! Plus, there is a good message that's learned.
The film stars Justin Long as Bartleby 'B' Gaines, a senior in high school who's been trying to get accepted into any college. Unfortunately, he ends up not getting into any, much to the disappointment of his parents (especially his father). After his best friend, Sherman (Jonah Hill) finds out he's going to Harmon College, B has enough.
He decides the only way he'll ever please his parents is by getting accepted, so he decides to make up his own college to fool them. He has Sherman build a fake website, he's written a fake acceptance letter, and convinced his mom and dad that the South Harmon Institute of Technology wants Bartleby Gaines as a student.
If you haven't figured out already, the acronym for the school S.H.I.T. yes, you're reading that correctly. You see, B didn't think about the name too long; but, he's fooled his parents enough into thinking he's made it to a school and so his father gives him a check for $10,000.
Of course, not thinking again, B must think of a way to fool the folks one more time there's orientation and meeting with the dean and the professors of the school. He uses that money from his dad and rents out an old abandoned hospital with his other buddies, Roxy (Maria Thayer), Glen (Adam Herschman), Hands (Columbus Short), and Sherman. One of the most hilarious things in the film is when they first go inside the hospital to clean it up, Sherman screams uncontrollably reacting to a fake body falling from the ceiling - the noise that comes out of his mouth is priceless!
The comedy continues when Lewis Black arrives on the screen; he plays the 'dean' of the South Harmon Institute of Technology. When a stint as a full-time professor at Harmon College didn't go as well as he expected, he was fired. If you've ever heard or seen the comic styles of Lewis, then you know he's got classic rants about anything and everything; he's most famous for his appearances on The Daily Show and his stand-up comedy tour. But, man does he know how to make you laugh.
I'll warn you now anytime he is on the screen, do not have anything in your mouth cause it'll end up on the head of the person sitting in front of you and I don't mean in a nasty way. You'll be laughing so hard, you won't be able to keep your mouth closed!! With his parents happy, B is able to sit back and have fun.
What ends up happening, there was a glitch on the South Harmon Institute of Technology website Sherman created it turns out, by clicking in the 'Everyone Gets Accepted' box, everyone got accepted. As he and his friends are sitting around playing video games a knock at the door hundreds of kids who clicked on the S.H.I.T. website are waiting outside, each with their $10,000 tuition money. Without being ready, B and his crew must figure out a way to house these 'new students.' Of course, he also must now figure how to tell these people that this isn't a real school.
Instead, he comes up with the plan to run the school have the kids pick their own classes, and use the money they gave him for tuition to throw massive parties every night. And those classes - Slacking 101, Free Thinking 347 - the list goes on, but the gags keep rolling in!
In Accepted, the antagonist is the real dean from Harmon College, Richard Van Horne (Anthony Heald). His plans are to turn Harmon College into an exclusive 'gentleman's college' like Harvard or Yale only accepting the very best. To achieve his goal, the land where the South Harmon Institute of Technology must go. When B doesn't go along with those plans, Van Horne does a little digging and finds out the truth about the college that it's not real.
Accepted marks Justin Long's first role as the stand-out lead he takes it and runs with it, just as B runs with his ideas for running his own school. There are some things Sherman gets into, trying to fit in with his potential fraternity brothers; Jonah Hill plays the part you feel for him and you laugh at him. And if you ever see him on the streets don't forget to 'ask him about his wiener.'
There are really some moments in this movie that I have watched over and over and over again and just laugh and I laugh hard every time I see them, and you will, too!! Plus, there is a good message that's learned.