on the face of it and any teen comedy run the risk of be sophomoric and obvious and and fair enough and most of them be . there be a few that have rise above the usual banality of the source material ( bring it on and eurotrip ) and and they give me hope that others can join that depressingly rare crowd of teen comedy that be actually funny and not just an excuse to flash some starlet boob or be a vehicle for some never be like tom green . enter accept and direct by john cusack pal steve pink and lead by the likable justin long ( the smart nerdy kid in galaxy quest and more recently feature in apple computer ad ) and about a bunch of kid who do not get accept to college and decide and a disclose in the trailer and to fake a bogus one to get their parent off their back . when they go a little too far with the website and other kid end up enrol and the kid have a few problem to solve . okay and the set up be obviously preposterous and but most comedy life or dy in the execution and and here and accept do pretty well . long bartleby gaines ( mostly shorten to b ) be accompany by enough well mean comically acceptable friend to help him share the load and but probably the best supporting character be dean lewis ( no doubt name a an homage to rodney dangerfield dean martin ) and aka uncle ben and lewis black and who be wisely restrict to short spurt where he can rapid fire his unique brand of cranky observational humor . black be terrific here and frankly tell the kid what life be really like ( his expletive laden final line be hysterical ) and provide the adult face to the bogus university for the parent . but long have to carry most of the film and and he do so and in spade while bartleby be easily identify with and we take to him almost immediately . a nice twist be provide by columbus short character hand and an athlete who lose his scholarship due to an injury and end up become the de facto art faculty at the fake college . also noteworthy a bartleby hyper intelligent and sarcastic little sister be hannah mark . yes and the film do feel familiar in some spot while there a debt here owe and of all place and to revenge of the nerd . those who be reject by everyone else find a home with bartleby and his cohort and and of course the villain be steroid enhanced conformist master race type who run a fraternity ( well and okay and frat be evil ) and seek to humiliate and bury the oddball for the gasp crime of be different . but that aside and accept have fun with the material and and even ask a few decent question about the expectation on college kid and the course of high education . not that it a brain teaser by any mean and but accept isn not just another mindless teen comedy ( or owen wilson vehicle ) . it a funny and clever 90 minute that and while not a great departure from it genre and be intelligent and creative enough to be very enjoyable . there be at least one moment of unadulterated brilliance in the film and when bartleby check out a nearby college in an attempt to harvest idea for his own school curriculum . when he see that the kid be all stress out at the other school ( several refuse to even talk to him during class for fear of miss something ) and he shake his head and thinking that there must be a good way . a he move to leave he be meet by a stream of kid go the other way and one person move against a human tide and while in the background and the opening line of eleanor rigby play . perhaps an unplanned moment of brilliance and but brilliance none the less .