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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • AC-3 • Color • Dolby • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 18 August, 2006 DVD Release : 14 November, 2006 |
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Accepted (Full Screen Edition) description Justin Long has been hovering on the edges of movies like The Break-Up and Dodgeball, providing little comic bursts that are often funnier than the rest of the movie. In Accepted, Long plays Bartleby Gaines, a fast-talking slacker who, when he gets rejected by every college he applied to, invents a phony college to get his parents off his back. Unfortunately, the website his best friend creates is too effective--hundreds of other rejects apply and are accepted. Instead of revealing the hoax, Gaines decides to forge ahead and let the students create their own curriculum, little suspecting that their school is obstructing the expansion plans of the nearby snobbish college. Accepted is much better than you might expect, given the low bar set by most campus comedies; it aims for, and sometimes achieves, the blend of slapstick and social satire that Animal House embodied. Long proves to be a charming leading man without losing his quirky comic sense and the supporting cast is consistently entertaining, particularly stand-up comedian Lewis Black, who delivers a variety of sardonic rants about society. Accepted's critique of conformism is glib--you wish they'd given it a little more bite--but it's still valid and a pleasant sliver of substance in an otherwise vapid genre. --Bret Fetzer |
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| This movie had the honor last summer of being relentlessly advertised - for awhile, you couldn't watch primetime without being assaulted by the clip of a fat guy wearing a hotdog costume bellowing, "Ask me about my wiener!" The movie was also memorable in how closely it resembled a chipper little movie called "Camp Nowhere," which came out some years earlier.
Like "Camp Nowhere," it involves a bunch of misfits (looking old enough to be in grad school but actually supposedly first year college students) who invent their own institution (college, not camp), in order to have the time of their lives. Under the guidance of Bartleby "Symbolism Alert" Gaines, played by Justin Long, the misfits design a Web site advertising a fictional college, then proceed to turn an abandoned mental hospital into a college where students can design their own curriculum. Schools like this actually exist, by the way, so this part isn't as unbelievable as some reviewers seem to think. "Accepted," makes some valid points about how higher education has become assembly-line and that frats are evil, but somehow I couldn't stop marveling at the resemblance to "Camp Nowhere." This wasn't just me either, but if you haven't seen that movie, you'll find "Accepted" a lot more original. The fat guy character is Bartleby's best friend Schrader, played by Jonah Hill, who sets up the Web site and assists with the hijinks even though he is going to a legitimate college nearby. Eventually, he becomes disenchanted with his school because of the evil frat boys' hazing. This would have had more impact if it had shown other pledges getting hazed, too, which I assume still happens in reality. It did, as other reviewers pointed out, seem excessively mean spirited, and took away from the comedy happening at the South Harmon Institute of Technology, Bartleby's college. The Evil Dean of the legit school is naturally opposed to the upstart school setting in motion some semblance of a plot. Lewis Black is also very good, playing the "dean" of S.H.I.T. and treating the students/audiences to rants on the state of the "real world." In fact, Black and Hill pretty much upstage the Bartleby character, which isn't a problem. I found it hilarious last summer but then it was ninety plus degrees outside the theater, so perhaps the summer is the best time to rent it. |
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