The action sags in the middle, but director Steven Brill gets mileage out of some funny cameos and good one-liners.
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12/09/08
Drillbit Taylor (2008)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:6
Rotten:22
Average Rating:4.4/10
Consensus: Owen Wilson's charms can't save Drillbit Taylor, an unfunny, overly familiar bullied-teen comedy.
Theatrical Release:Mar 21, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $32,853,640
Synopsis: DRILLBIT TAYLOR tells the story of three nerdy adolescents who, on their very first day of high school, find themselves the target of a merciless, near psychotic bully. The friends band together... [More]
Starring: Owen Wilson, Leslie Mann, Danny McBride, Josh Peck
Director: Steven Brill
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Reviews for Drillbit Taylor
Top CriticThe constant fighting and punching gets nastier and less funny, the film drags on for far too long, and the ending is uninspired and predictable.
03/24/08
Top CriticDrillbit Taylor is as clunky and humorless as its title.
03/21/08
Top CriticDespite 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.
03/21/08
Top CriticWithout 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.
03/21/08
Top CriticWilson gets by on his delivery and his demeanor. It doesn't matter what he says; it's how he says it.
03/21/08
Top CriticToo much of Drillbit Taylor is the kind of formulaic free-for-all that does Wilson no good, nor anybody else.
03/21/08
Top CriticTrying to mix farce with heart, Drillbit Taylor is instead as soulful as Kenny G and as wacky as public television.
03/21/08
Top CriticIt's no wedgie, but after a while Drillbit Taylor feels like its own form of torment.
03/21/08
Top CriticWilson needs to find a few other steady sources of scripts if he doesn't want to become the clown prince of B-movie land. And Apatow needs to slow down and try a little harder unless he wants to become its smirking figurehead.
03/21/08
Top CriticThis is Apatow Lite, a slapped-together series of sketches that are rarely funny and are often nastier than a movie aimed at pre-teens should be.
03/21/08
Top CriticEven if this movie doesn't quite hit the highs of its predecessor, it's nice to know that there are still filmmakers ready to respect the eternal struggles of freaks and geeks.
03/21/08
Top CriticSome of the movie's problems stem from the fact that the filmmakers can't seem to decide whose story it is, with a constant narrative tug of war between Wade and Ryan's battle for survival and Drillbit's dreams of escaping to Canada.
03/21/08
Top CriticWatching kids being forced to pee on each other isn't actually funny. Neither is watching those same kids get chased down by a pair of thugs in a sports car.
03/21/08
Top CriticThat so little of the movie bears the inventiveness, charm or rude energy of the team's last look at teen life suggests this particular well of inspiration has already run dry.
03/21/08
Top CriticOverly familiar, underwhelmingly funny and thoroughly predictable, Taylor is a one-joke movie that doesn't even get that one joke right.
03/21/08
Top CriticThe jokes are funny, the acting is good (especially the three freshmen) and the film has an underlying sweetness that harkens back to 2004's Without a Paddle, which was also directed by Mr. Brill.
03/21/08
Top CriticThe makers of Drillbit Taylor aren't so much interested in a movie about the tyranny of bullies as they are completely turned on by the violence they inflict.
03/21/08
Top CriticDrillbit Taylor is so ploddingly directed and lazily written that it adds up to little more than a diffuse collection of second-hand gags and jokes, few of them funny.
03/20/08
Top CriticIf the film doesn't quite measure up to the Apatow gold standard, it's at least sterling silver.
03/20/08
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