Movie Review: Accepted

If you're like me and watch too much TV, you've seen the commercials. A lot of people might have negative reaction to the trailers. It might seem like Accepted is about a bunch of dumb kids who start a fake school because they are too lazy or dumb to get into a respectable college. But, in reality, Accepted is about so much more.

Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long) is a smart kid who is a mastermind at manipulating people. B applied to eight colleges and got rejected from all of them. He tried to tell his parents, but they were so disappointed with him. So, he fools around on his computer and takes the logo from Harmon University, a respected school in the area. He changes the colors a bit and creates a sister school to Harmon--South Harmon, Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T. for short). He prints out his acceptance letter and shows it to his parents. His friend, Hands (Columbus Short), sees the letter and asks for one. He didn't get into college either. Soon enough, two more of his friends want in on the plan.

B begins to realize for this to work, he needs two things. First, they need a place. When his dad gives him ten grand for "school tuition", he spends it on leasing a broken down mental hospital. Also, the school is going to need his website. He asks his best friend, Sherman (Jonah Hill), a tech geek who got into Harmon, to write on the site "Acceptance is only a click Away." Sherman misunderstands and puts a link on the site. A couple days later, hundreds of kids show up. And B doesn't have the heart to reject them, as they were going the same thing he was.

B then ran into another problem. How the heck was he supposed to run a college? He's never even been to college. So, he lets everyone design their own classes. People had classes where they were skateboarding or staring at girls all day. There was even a course called "Do Nothing 101."

Article Author: Maddy Pumilia

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