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The action sags in the middle, but director Steven Brill gets mileage out of some funny cameos and good one-liners.
The constant fighting and punching gets nastier and less funny, the film drags on for far too long, and the ending is uninspired and predictable.
Drillbit Taylor is as clunky and humorless as its title.
Despite sharing a producer in comedy-genius-of-the-moment Judd Apatow, a co-writer in Seth Rogen and somewhat similar territory, Drillbit Taylor doesn't measure up to the raunchy classic that gave the world McLovin.
Without focus, without apparent intention, the movie floats along, stringing various incidents together, and in the end seems much longer than it is. It feels like 2 1/2 hours.
Wilson gets by on his delivery and his demeanor. It doesn't matter what he says; it's how he says it.
Most of it is the same high school comedy we've been watching since John Hugh's heyday 20 years ago. Everyone is either popular and cruel (because in teenager-land one de facto means the other) or awkward and thus fair game for the popular kids.
All too kiddie for Apatow's older fan base and a bit too rough and violent to be an all-ages, family-friendly film.
Has enough heart and insight into the complexities of being a teenager today that you can overlook some of its other shortcomings - primarily in the tired act of the titular character.
A distaff version of Weird Science with a similar metaphysical disregard for logic
Wilson proves again that he's a quick-witted comedic treasure—he's the sort of actor who gets hired to make mediocre movies almost good by his sheer force of comic will. [Blu-Ray]
...cold, mean-spirited, and tiresome. (Blu-ray Edition)
A Superbad lite knockoff replacing sex with violence and minus the dirty talk, Drillbit Taylor is its own worst enemy by tackling a grim subject like school bullies for laughs.
Give me Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise instead.
...silly, sentimental, sometimes cruel, often clumsy, mostly unfunny, and frustratingly inane.
What worked for me were the three kids, but every time Wilson shows up the movie comes to a complete halt.
Leaves its stain less on [Luke] Wilson than on the fellows who are trying to harness his smirk and his persona without the delicate touch that [Wes] Anderson and Wilson made look easy.
You can pretty much tell which parts were written by Seth Rogen. That was probably why 50% of the movie was actually funny.
Earns plenty of laughs without sinking to gross-out levels.
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