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Accepted [DVD] [2006]
enlarge	Director: Steve Pink Actors: Justin Long, Blake Lively, Mark Derwin, Maria Thayer, Ann Cusack Studio: Universal Pictures UK Category: DVD List Price: ~~£15.99~~ Buy New: £2.23 as of 22/11/2009 04:17 GMT details You Save: £13.76 (86%) New (15) Used (13) from £0.87 Seller: cddvdtrader Rating: 9 reviews Sales Rank: 12744 Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), Dutch (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), German (Dubbed) Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 90 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5050582474817 ASIN: B000M7FRV8 Theatrical Release Date: 2006 Release Date: February 12, 2007 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review Justin Long has been hovering on the edges of movies like iThe Break-Up/i and iDodgeball,/i providing little comic bursts that are often funnier than the rest of the movie. In iAccepted/i, 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. iAccepted/i 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 iAnimal House/i 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. --iBret Fetzer/i

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 9 1 2 Next » GREAT FILM!!!! May 26, 2007 Sophie Harris (ENGLAND) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful it was such a funny and great film! i havnt seen a gud film that this for ages and realy enjoyed it! was a a very gud story line and great actors! :-) BUY IT!!! Probably better than you would expect, and if you're predisposed towards it then you should love it January 7, 2008 BS on parade 1 out of 1 found this review helpful This sounded alright, potentially great if well made. The reviews said it was terrible and it was quite obscure so I didn't notice it when it got released on DVD. br / br /Having finally seen it I have to say that it's great. It is middle of the road, and I can see how a lot of people don't like it, but it works for me. In the space of about three months I have seen it three times, which is a lot for me as I usually wait about a year before watching something again. br / br /Justin Long is funny and likeable, although it's probably fair to say that he's not destined to be one of the great titans of comedy. If you get his style of humour then you should find the film to be very amusing, with seven or eight laugh out loud moments. Hopefully he will get more starring roles as he is good. br / br /The rival jocks are a particularly non-threatening presence. Justin gets the girl from the jock far too easily. Maybe the makers were trying to skip some cliches of the sub-genre, but still, the cliche is there so they might as well have played it out in full. br / br /The DVD has no extras which is odd for a comedy as they usually have ten or so minutes of good deleted scenes and alternative dialogue. Sometimes the deleted material is better than what gets into the film so I do feel annoyed that there isn't any on this DVD. br / br /On a non-relevant side note it's interesting how "U-Mass" by The Pixies jumps out of the film soundtrack in a way none of the other songs do. Either it's just really well placed, or it's further proof that they are one of the greatest bands of all time. one of the best films i've ever seen June 16, 2007 R. J. Bennion (Cheshire, England) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful If you like your american teenager films, this is the best one which will make you laugh and be happy, and also make you think..'why can't i go there..?'. Even if you don't enjoy american teenager film, i believe you will find this quiet a good film. br / br /This film has so many funny parts, and you can really relate to what the characters are going through and doing throughout this film. Such a great idea of a film which works really well. br / br /The idea of the film is about a guy who is constantly rejected from colleges, along with his friends, and not to disapoint his parents, they lease a building, and pretend its a real college, and things are going really well, until they find out more people have applied. br / br /Really Good Film This is definitely accepted into my film collection! November 30, 2008 Sophie (Dorset, UK) I bought this film because I get so bored afterschool and thought that watching a film will probably pass the time. I'm so glad I watched this film and I'm utterly ashamed of myself that I didn't think of buying it before! br /The idea about students runing their own college is bizarre enough so I guess that is what is so funny about this movie. br /I recommend you buying it if you're a fan of Dodgeball because the main character in this film is the wannabe cheerleader guy in Dodgeball. Scores pretty high on the comedy finals February 16, 2007 Daniel Jolley (Shelby, North Carolina USA) 6 out of 7 found this review helpful Let's say you've been something of an underachiever in high school, living a Ferris Bueller-like life and not exactly hitting the books very hard. You're a pretty cool guy, but now it's time to face reality. The closest you've gotten to the class hottie is her front lawn (which she flirted you into mowing for her) and - horror of horrors - every single college you applied to has turned you down flat (which is going to come as quite a blow to your parents). What do you do? Well, naturally, there's only one thing to do - have your nerdy best friend (Jonah Hill) create a fancy web site for a nonexistent college, fake an acceptance letter from said college, and use dad's tuition money to lease an abandoned mental hospital that you can clean up and pass off as an actual educational institution. It helps if you have a few friends joining you in this whole crazy scheme - friends like Hands (Columbus Short), who lost his athletic scholarship because of an injury, Glen (Adam Herschman), who probably can't even spell college, and Rory (Maria Thayer), a totally cute redhead who only applied to one school (Yale) and had her cherished dreams dashed at the manicured hands of smarmy Ivy League administrators who probably all talk like Thurston Howell, III. Certainly, it takes some work to turn a filthy, abandoned loony bin into a "college" impressive enough to fool your parents when they drop you off, but it's going to be all fun and games after they leave, right? It might be - if about 300 other folks didn't show up with acceptance letters and tuition money in hand (seems that good old Sherman made the college web site a little too functional). br / br /Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long), the brainchild of this whole fake college dream, doesn't have the heart to turn all these students away from the hallowed halls of South Harmon Institute of Technology - these are all people who want to learn but have no chance of ever getting into a real school. Bartleby is totally BMOC, and his ideas to let the students choose what they want to do goes over really big. Who wouldn't want to learn how to rock your face off in the afternoon and then settle in for a leisurely night of Babe Watching 101? Okay, so they don't have any tests, or books, or even a faculty - apart from their dean (played to hilarious effect by Lewis Black), who just left a promising career as a bitter shoe salesman - but these crazy misfit kids actually start to learn a few things. Even the students over at the prestigious Harmon College start mingling around the place, including Monica (Blake Lively), the aforementioned hottie who starts thinking Bartleby is a better guy than her conceited future lawyer of a boyfriend. br / br /Yep, things are looking pretty good for old Bartleby and friends. Then, of course, the world crashes in on them when reality, in the form of Dean Van Horne (Anthony Heald) from Harmon, calls Bartleby's incredibly huge bluff. Will this be the end of the South Harmon Institute of Technology forever? Will this bold experiment at untraditional higher education simply disappear, breaking the hearts and thwarting the minds of all the unacceptable students S.H.I.T. accepted? Will Monica, in disgust at such rank duplicity, abandon Bartleby before he even gets a chance to get to second base with her? br / br /Obviously, Accepted has one of the most farcical plots you're likely to come across, but it's a pretty darn good comedy that plays better than you would expect, especially when it gets that whole underdog thing going. You can't help but like Bartleby and company, the outrageous diversity of the student body serves up many a memorable character (such as the A.D.D. kid, the big, menacing guy most likely to go crazy in boot camp like that soldier in Full Metal Jacket, and a young lady who just gave up stripping to go back to school). You even have Deal or No Deal's Lisa, who trades in her revealing dresses for an even more revealing bikini. You might even say the movie makes an actual point or two about the system of higher education, which has certainly been known to turn away kids who may struggle but really want to learn in favor of some students who get in to good schools because of connections or money alone and then sleepwalk their way through four years of highly structured classes. Don't hold me to that "this movie actually has something to say" thing, though. Accepted is really all about the comedy, and I must say it certainly kept me well entertained throughout. Showing reviews 1-5 of 9 1 2 Next »

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