Justin Long has been hovering on the edges of movies like The Break-Up and Dodgeball; providing little comic bursts that are often funnier than the rest of the movie. In Accepted; 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. Accepted 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 Animal House 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. --Bret Fetzer