I have to admit it (no pun intended) that I love writing my snotty little reviews on IMDb. It's a release; no guilt here.Therefore, I won't be snotty when I tell you that, other than appreciating Tina Fey's pretty face, Admission is utterly forgettable. I saw the movie with my wife when it came out, and I had to read the synopsis to remember some of the details of the plot.Oh, well.It's something of a message movie and a chick flick and a heart- warmer, and darned if I know why it didn't gel. It had all the things that make a movie a ticket-seller--attractive performers and tugged heart-strings, but, here it is three years later, and I just don't have any positive feelings about Admission.I'm wondering if it's the fact that I am, as a high school teacher, and a blue-collar-focused one at that, increasingly anti-college. Why would anyone want to spend that much money for a 4 year degree? Why would anyone want to, even with a full-ride, not get a job and earn one's general university requirements from the most inexpensive community college one could find?I think that's it. While so many folks are wrapped up in getting their kiddies into the best universities with the best reputations and the best safe places without micro-aggressions, I want kids to get to work living, earning the money for each credit, and feeling that they can give themselves the credit for being grown-ups as soon as possible after high school.Maybe that's why Paul Rudd and Tina Fey dropped off my radar as I went through the theater door after the flick. I didn't care and I don't care about anything in this movie except maybe . . . when Fey gets photographed from behind, were they trying to hide her butt? Is that a micro-aggression?

Admission (2013): Dir: Paul Weitz / Cast: Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Michael Sheen, Lily Tomlin, Wallace Shawn: Admission should not be granted to anyone with any common sense. This is a romantic comedy of sorts that stars Tina Fey as an admission counsellor at a university but the title really suggests the news of a son she gave up years ago and is reintroduced to in a shot of possible motherhood. Paul Rudd plays a missions type worker who travels about the world helping orphaned children and such. He contacts Fey with the belief that one of his schooled teens is her son. He desires to enrol him in the university for which she works in hopes that maybe she will take another crack at the mother thing despite the boy's lack of knowledge of it. This becomes very irritating especially with humour that hits inappropriate timing. Fey is a fine comic talent but she is horrible here playing a character who is not only unlikeable but a decision she makes in the conclusion destroys any sympathy for her. Rudd is equally bad as a good hearted sort yet totally lacking in social standing. One poorly aimed joke regards him throwing a horse ornament on the floor. Other roles are also pathetic with not even Lily Tomlin as Fey's crass mother able to surrender any humour. Director Paul Weitz seems to be creating a female version of his About a Boy and floundering badly at it. This is the worst example of his talent. It is as if he was heavy drinking during the shoot. Its message regards a re-introductory to motherhood despite a childless lifestyle. The result is a film that should be admitted to a trash bid. Score: 2 / 10

I wish Admission had been better as a movie. By this I mean it has the stuff to be really challenging and edgy as a dramedy. But Weitz, when he goes for the comedic, just lets everyone down (and Michael Sheen, how do you mess up that casting, or is it just the writing). But I liked the meat of the dramatic bones, and Fey actually shows she could be great in a more dramatic role... except in here she still gets saddled with the same Liz Lemon bits as we've seen her do.And I love Liz Lemon (Tina Fey), but any of her quirky/neurotic bits here are just too much after a while (sand for Lily Tomlin, who goes too quickly from being an over-the-top caricature of feminist aggression to a, uh, normal person I guess, which is fine cause she's good at it). So, in short, really good acting, some fantastic scenes set among the college admissions game of hard-knocks, but it's also uneven.Alexander Payne kept coming to mind as a director who could have turned this into something truly wonderful; in this case it's more like Election-lite.

Admission: Never watch a movie by seeing ratings reason is might b ur perception is different from others. Well i hvn't seen this movie cz of low ratings but now when i saw i liked it. Story of a gal who just won't do things cz she pretend to b happy n her life.The mere presence of Tina Fey and Paul Rudd would elevate most any script and movie. They are inherently likable and talented. So i will not regret i watched this film cz i watched many more movies which really sucks This movie shows when we did something terrible in life and we get chance to do it right....we tried our best and sometimes even more hard. It's not easy to understand young Bridget.