Miss Quality Teen Comedy? Laugh to Tears With Jonah Hill’s Gem from the 2000s

If you feel nostalgic for the distant times when the grass was greener, life was much simpler and comedies were much funnier, we have a pretty good movie choice for you.

There is an unfairly forgotten flick that can serve as a perfect example of 00s comedies. It stars our favorite Jonah Hill before he rose to fame with his iconic buddy comedy Superbad in 2007, and be sure the actor is really hilarious here.

The plot of this comedy revolves around Bartleby, a reckless high school graduate who gets rejected by every college to which he applies. However, he and his best friend Sherman (played by Hill) find a way out of it - they create their own college.

Yes, the boys take over an abandoned building, create a fake website and pretend to attend the nonexistent South Harmon Institute of Technology. They do their job so well that other rejects also try to gain admittance to this college, and here problems begin.

The movie is really full of laughs and seemingly silly gags, starting from the very abbreviation of the fake college. It’s all working here the way you fall under pressure of the amount of guilty pleasure this flick gives, just like other good old comedies.

Besides, it certainly serves as a time capsule that сan take you back to the mid 2000s, as it contains some funny allusions to back-then pop culture and social phenomena.

Even the leading cast’s names are strongly associated with that decade. Apart from Hill, the movie stars the comedian Justin Long as Bartleby and Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively as Bartleby’s love interest.

Titled Accepted, it’s not as much recalled now as other nostalgic teen comedies, like Lindsay Lohan ’s Mean Girls, Zac Efron ’s 17 Again or like Superbad. Nevertheless, it’s truly a gem that deserves to be revised by both back-then teens and today’s youth.

“Typical, hilarious mid-2000s comedy flick… has some cheesy parts to it, but Justin Long is awesome, the supporting cast is funny as hell and the storyline is actually pretty relatable <...>,” concludes Redditor @gstateballer925 about it.

Check out this must-see comedy that flies under the radar, as Accepted is available for streaming on Prime.