Accepted (PG-13)
Dumb comedy about college students partying.
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- Studio: Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures
- Directed By: Steve Pink
- Cast: Justin Long, Blake Lively
- Running Time: 90 minutes
- Release Date: 08/18/2006
- Video/DVD Release Date: 11/14/2006
- Genre: Comedy
- MPAA Rating: PG-13
- MPAA Explanation: language, sexual material and drug content.
Parents need to know
Families can talk about the pressures on college applicants to "get in": How might families work together to make this a less-stressful process? How might telling the truth be a more effective way for Bartleby to communicate with his parents? Families could also talk about the stereotyped portrayal of college life; what's it really like to be a college student?
Message
Social Behavior:
Students make up a college, lie to their parents, and celebrate their "independence" with lots of partying.
Consumerism:
Repeated shots of Mac laptops; other brief mentions of products include Adidas.
Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco:
Much beer drinking by students; parents drink liquor; some pot smoking and references; drug-related jokes and language.
Violence
One student wants to learn how to make a "shank out of his toothbrush" while another teaches himself to "blow up stuff" with his mind (some comic explosions).
Sex
Several masturbation jokes; gags about awkward college boys lusting after girls; references to sex organs and one art student makes a "fertility" statue with a huge erection.
Language
At least one f-word; frequent profanity ("s--t," "hell," "damn it," p---y", "a--hole").
Common Sense says
What's the story?
Reviewed by Cynthia Fuchs
Is it any good?
That the rebellion has no shape seems not to matter to anyone. The “students” prefer to contemplate punk rock and take long walks. While such activities are not negative in and of themselves, the film makes the kids look unnecessarily unintelligent, a crowd of socially inept misfits who make Bartleby seem sharp by comparison. This strategy is underlined by the fact that Bartleby's the one who gets a girlfriend. Of course, the film needs a happy ending, so Monica is only briefly pouty when she finds out he's been lying.
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