Accepted (2006)

I swear, if any of you read this site semi-regularly AND watched Seinfeld, you may come to a similar conclusion as me. There was an episode of Seinfeld where Elaine goes to the video store and gets all these art house movies based on one of the employee's recommendations. Then there's one employee who picks brainless movies such as Weekend at Bernie's. Well dear readers, that employee's name was Gene. Kind of funny since I feel, and AM, like the Gene of this site and review the most braindead movies. And here I'm back again with the movie Accepted.

This is a comedy in which a group of friends from high school don't get into college, for one reason or another, and so they start their own college. This premise is very reminiscent of Camp Nowhere (1994) in such that the kids have to build their own institution to allow their wacky antics to occur and they gotta hide that fact from their parents. SPOILER ALERT Needless to say, the parents find out; thus leading to the predictable conflict and reconciliation along with the assumption of more wacky that can occur after the credits roll SPOILER OVER

I'll say this, it was an entertaining movie and it did it's job of making me chuckle. Justin Long plays the mastermind behind this scheme and does an ok job carrying the movie, however this truly is an ensemble work. Jonah Hill is humorous as the witty/talkative friend, a roll that he's pretty much made into his usual typecast, albeit the his characters' book smarts differ in each iteration. But to me, the most entertaining character is Lewis Black because I just enjoy what he does and he pretty much does that in this movie, so it's not like he's really acting up a storm. He cracks wise, and that's all I want really.

Beyond the cliched humor that kept me entertained, I enjoyed the babes in this movie. And that's to be expected of course in a movie marketed to young adults and teens. There is no nudity in this film, but they provide just enough eye candy and innuendo to keep things honest. No watch checks on this one. However I don't recommend this unless you are really sure your brain is in the open and off position.