Movie #12 - Accepted

Accepted
Universal Pictures
2006 - Rated PG-13 - 1 hr 33 min
Director: Steve Pink
Starring: Justin Long, Blake Lively, Anthony Heald, Lewis Black

Here's another unopened DVD. This one, I bought last October for Mike's birthday. I think it was time to open it, don't you?

Anyway, despite this movie's ridiculous premise (kid invents college so he can tell his parents he's going to college, accept letters accidentally get sent to other college-less high school grads), it's an interesting commentary on the modern university. It has everything else a good comedy should have: adorable dork (Justin Long), funny fat kid (Jonah Hill), the cute blonde girl who's the object of the dork's affections, the questionable adult role model (Lewis Black), surprisingly insightful kid sister, weird pool cleaner, scantily-clad girls in bikinis, preppy villain, and ultimate test of fortitude by which the motley crew must come together to triumph or forever be parted (or arrested for fraud).

I mean, who wouldn't want to take college classes from Lewis Black?

It's light, it's fun, there's something any college grad can relate too ("Apparently, there are photography classes that won't count toward my photography major..."), and if all else fails, there's chicks in bikinis if that's your thing.