Drillbit Taylor Critic Reviews

Wilson is as sincere as ever at being insincere, though the sweet minor notes of his trademark melancholia seem here to be in search of a more boisterous presence -- say a Vince Vaughn -- to riff with.Read the full review

Owen Wilson phones it in with Drillbit Taylor, a by-the-numbers teen comedy.Read the full review

As clunky and humorless as its title.Read the full review

Wilson's funny. Mann's funny. But paired together here, nothing works.Read the full review

A junior-league "Superbad" with an aftertaste of "The Pacifier," Drillbit Taylor is a just passable pubescent comedy with a modest laugh count by Apatow factory standards.Read the full review

A relatively lame exercise that never achieves comic traction.Read the full review

The "Apatow formula" is pretty simple: raunchy comedy, likeable characters, and a dash of sweetness (but nothing too sweet). Drillbit Taylor fulfills the third characteristic but falls short in the other two.Read the full review

Drillbit Taylor is slackly paced and rife with questionable logic.Read the full review

So ploddingly directed (by Steven Brill) and lazily written that it adds up to little more than a diffuse collection of second-hand gags and jokes, few of them funny.Read the full review