on the face of it and any teen comedy runs the risk of being sophomoric and obvious and and fair enough and most of them are. there are a few that have risen above the usual banality of the source material (bring it on and eurotrip) and and they give me hope that others can join that depressingly rare crowd of teen comedies that are actually funny and not just an excuse to flash some starlet boobs or be a vehicle for some never was like tom green. enter accepted and directed by john cusack pal steve pink and led by the likable justin long (the smart nerdy kid in galaxy quest and more recently featured in apple computer ads) and about a bunch of kids who do not get accepted to college and decide and as disclosed in the trailer and to fake a bogus one to get their parents off their backs. when they go a little too far with the website and other kids end up enrolling and the kids have a few problems to solve. okay and the set up is obviously preposterous and but most comedy lives or dies in the execution and and here and accepted does pretty well. long bartleby gaines (mostly shortened to b) is accompanied by enough well meaning comically acceptable friends to help him share the load and but probably the best supporting character is dean lewis (no doubt named as an homage to rodney dangerfield dean martin) and aka uncle ben and lewis black and who is wisely restricted to short spurts where he can rapid fire his unique brand of cranky observational humor. black is terrific here and frankly telling the kids what life is really like (his expletive laden final line is hysterical) and providing the adult face to the bogus university for the parents. but long has to carry most of the film and and he does so and in spades while bartleby is easily identified with and we take to him almost immediately. a nice twist was provided by columbus short character hands and an athlete who loses his scholarship due to an injury and ends up becoming the de facto art faculty at the fake college. also noteworthy as bartleby hyper intelligent and sarcastic little sister is hannah marks. yes and the film does feel familiar in some spots while there a debt here owed and of all places and to revenge of the nerds. those who are rejected by everyone else find a home with bartleby and his cohorts and and of course the villains are steroid enhanced conformist master race types who run a fraternity (well and okay and frats are evil) and seek to humiliate and bury the oddballs for the  gasp  crime of being different. but that aside and accepted has fun with the material and and even asks a few decent questions about the expectations on college kids and the course of higher education. not that it a brain teaser by any means and but accepted isn not just another mindless teen comedy (or owen wilson vehicle). it a funny and clever 90 minutes that and while not a great departure from its genre and is intelligent and creative enough to be very enjoyable. there is at least one moment of unadulterated brilliance in the film and when bartleby checks out a nearby college in an attempt to harvest ideas for his own school curriculum. when he sees that the kids are all stressed out at the other school (several refuse to even talk to him during class for fear of missing something) and he shakes his head and thinking that there must be a better way. as he moves to leave he is met by a stream of kids going the other way and one person moving against a human tide and while in the background and the opening lines of eleanor rigby play. perhaps an unplanned moment of brilliance and but brilliance none the less. 
on the face of it and any teen comedy runs the risk of being sophomoric and obvious and and fair enough and most of them are. there are a few that have risen above the usual banality of the source material (bring it on and eurotrip) and and they give me hope that others can join that depressingly rare crowd of teen comedies that are actually funny and not just an excuse to flash some starlet boobs or be a vehicle for some never was like tom green. enter accepted and directed by john cusack pal steve pink and led by the likable justin long (the smart nerdy kid in galaxy quest and more recently featured in apple computer ads) and about a bunch of kids who do not get accepted to college and decide and as disclosed in the trailer and to fake a bogus one to get their parents off their backs. when they go a little too far with the website and other kids end up enrolling and the kids have a few problems to solve. okay and the set up is obviously preposterous and but most comedy lives or dies in the execution and and here and accepted does pretty well. long bartleby gaines (mostly shortened to b) is accompanied by enough well meaning comically acceptable friends to help him share the load and but probably the best supporting character is dean lewis (no doubt named as an homage to rodney dangerfield dean martin) and aka uncle ben and lewis black and who is wisely restricted to short spurts where he can rapid fire his unique brand of cranky observational humor. black is terrific here and frankly telling the kids what life is really like (his expletive laden final line is hysterical) and providing the adult face to the bogus university for the parents. but long has to carry most of the film and and he does so and in spades while bartleby is easily identified with and we take to him almost immediately. a nice twist was provided by columbus short character hands and an athlete who loses his scholarship due to an injury and ends up becoming the de facto art faculty at the fake college. also noteworthy as bartleby hyper intelligent and sarcastic little sister is hannah marks. yes and the film does feel familiar in some spots while there a debt here owed and of all places and to revenge of the nerds. those who are rejected by everyone else find a home with bartleby and his cohorts and and of course the villains are steroid enhanced conformist master race types who run a fraternity (well and okay and frats are evil) and seek to humiliate and bury the oddballs for the  gasp  crime of being different. but that aside and accepted has fun with the material and and even asks a few decent questions about the expectations on college kids and the course of higher education. not that it a brain teaser by any means and but accepted isn not just another mindless teen comedy (or owen wilson vehicle). it a funny and clever 90 minutes that and while not a great departure from its genre and is intelligent and creative enough to be very enjoyable. there is at least one moment of unadulterated brilliance in the film and when bartleby checks out a nearby college in an attempt to harvest ideas for his own school curriculum. when he sees that the kids are all stressed out at the other school (several refuse to even talk to him during class for fear of missing something) and he shakes his head and thinking that there must be a better way. as he moves to leave he is met by a stream of kids going the other way and one person moving against a human tide and while in the background and the opening lines of eleanor rigby play. perhaps an unplanned moment of brilliance and but brilliance none the less. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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