- 6
...lacks the edge of some of its predecessors, but the amusing premise and the engaging outcasts make this late summer offering harmless fun.
—Pete Hammond Maxim
- 6
Accepted's winning dumbness and breezy bons mots save it from the pit...
—Scott Brown Entertainment Weekly
- 6
A perfectly adequate summertime diversion, Accepted merits a passing grade.
—Tim Knight Reel
- 5
...an amiable but undernourished campus comedy...
—Scott Foundas LA Weekly
- 5
...the ideal viewer of Accepted probably won't have seen any college comedies before. Or any slobs-vs.-snobs movies like Caddyshack. For those who have, it's kind of a snore.
—Keith Phipps Onion AV Club
- 5
...an amiable but undernourished campus comedy...
—Scott Foundas Village Voice
- 5
...aims low and misses often.
—Maitland McDonagh TV Guide
- 5
...a mildly funny PG-13 effort that is just dying to release an R- or unrated DVD version of itself.
—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune
- 5
...sticks to the usual college-comedy lesson plan: bubbly hot blondes, good; frat boys and smarmy deans, bad.
—Jason Lynch People
- 5
"Sophomoric" doesn't begin to describe the humor (most of the characters are freshmen after all), but you may find some laughs in spite of yourself.
—M.K. Terrell Christian Science Monitor
- 5
There's a smart comedy lurking somewhere in Accepted...
—Ethan Alter Premiere
- 5
...a passable example of that oxymoronic genre, the Hollywood comedy about sticking it to the man.
—Nathan Lee New York Times
- 5
...attempts to fool a young audience that might very well be too smart to be fooled.
—Stephen Williams Los Angeles Times
- 5
...mismash(es) virtually every college and high school-related comedy of the past 20 years together like a not-very-clever 10th-grade plagiarist.
—Nick Schager Slant Magazine
- 2
A campus comedy that's as dull as bong water...
—Kyle Smith New York Post
- 0
...so messy that it feels like it was peeled off the floor of a bathroom stall. It's moldy and cold. Nobody smart is anywhere in sight.
—Caroline Kepnes E!