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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The hijinks in Accepted are as wild as a sixth-grade prom. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Accepted cannot handle its pretensions toward social commentary. Read more
Joanne Kaufman, Wall Street Journal: Go right ahead and skip this one at the Cineplex. You've got my word: It won't be on the final. Read more
Ted Fry, Seattle Times: Even though it outright plagiarizes many plot points and gags of that generational classic, Accepted can't make the leap from contrived to genuine comedy. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: If you can lighten up for an hour and a half, the film delivers one good laugh after another. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Even the characters in the movie are saying at the beginning, 'This is crazy. This will never work.' And I'm like, you know what? You're right. It never will. Not for one second. Even in a whacky comedy like this. Read more
Noel Murray, AV Club: It isn't the predictability that drags [Accepted] down so much as the complete lack of spark. Read more
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: It's loud and goofy, but it's sorely lacking energy, not to mention laughs. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Low of brow and pure of heart, the movie plays like Animal House extra-lite, and as such it's decent indecent fun. Read more
Stephen Williams, Newsday: More disconcerting is the idea put forward that self-indulgence is a substitute for structured education, or, more to the point, that it's a substitute for life. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Sublimely stupid, this collegiate farce plays like a cross between Animal House and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: Too much of the plot is eaten up with cliched assaults on a stodgy mainstream college and its pretty, gel-afflicted frat boys, who care waaayyy less about the liberal arts than whacking around pledges with a wooden spanker. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Go to school and do your best, but check out Accepted before you go just as a reminder of the glory of rebellious foolishness. Read more
Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly: Accepted's winning dumbness and breezy bons mots save it from the pit. Read more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Like a mediocre high school transcript, the movie has the foundations, but it skimps on the extracurriculars. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Accepted Or, Ferris Bueller gets his B.A. In this amiable but undernourished campus comedy. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: None of them will teach you anything you didn't already know -- but at least you'll have a good time until class is dismissed. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Like its underachieving protagonist, Steve Pink's teen comedy Accepted flashes just enough charm to get by but is too lazy to really make anything of itself. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Half-witted it may be, but as back-to-school time-killers go, Accepted's right on the edge of acceptable. Read more
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: Give the new college comedy Accepted half credit for having the gumption to marry two previously unrelated, seminal classics in American arts and letters. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Here's the final mystery about Accepted: Why title a movie that so readily invites the headline Rejected as a critical riposte? Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Accepted is trying to be a new species of Animal House, but at least that 1978 comedy had no pretensions of being more than a boisterous spoof of college life. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: As a misfit-empowering comedy that embraces the stragglers and fringe-dwellers of teen society, Accepted is sweetly amusing, gently anarchic and never mean-spirited. Read more
Scott Foundas, Village Voice: Accepted is an inspired premise in search of a movie: What starts out as a scabrous takedown of academic bureaucracy ends up yet another modestly rousing underdog story about the little slacker that could. Read more
Adriane Quinlan, Washington Post: A fluffy teen comedy, Accepted gets annoying fast. Read more