Accepted(2006)

OUR REVIEW

Who's in It: Justin Long, Adam Herschman, Jonah Hill, Blake Lively, Columbus Short, Maria Thayer, Lewis Black
The Basics: A bunch of academic rejects — led by the guy who plays the hip, multilingual Mac in those Mac vs. PC commercials — make their own college. It starts as a lie and then becomes real. And then they have to stand up for what they believe in, which is easy when all you believe in is partying.

What's the Deal? They hardly ever make "slobs vs. snobs" movies like this one anymore. And there's a reason. Dumb is hard to do in a smart way. And the great ones are rated R, and that always means smaller box-office gross than PG-13 stuff. This movie is the latter, tame and cuddly and sweet. But don't hate it for that. It's funnier than it has any right to be.

It Could Too Happen: This is one of those movies in which you just have to buy it that a bunch of people, too lazy to even deal with undemanding high-school work, would suddenly demonstrate magical powers of building renovation, turning a crumbling, abandoned mental hospital into a college dorm with really good furniture, paint jobs and wiring. Then there's the part where everyone who's in on the fake college scam would go to prison for fraud.