Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

The action sags in the middle, but director Steven Brill gets mileage out of some funny cameos and good one-liners.

| Dec 9, 2008

It's hard to imagine a bigger disappointment, or a more casual squandering of audience good will, than Drillbit Taylor.

| Mar 28, 2008

An engaging enough picture, if a lesser work, from the talented Apatow stable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 28, 2008

Leaves a nasty taste in the mouth.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 28, 2008

'Drillbit Taylor' is a bit of a giggle, but it lacks bite and direction: even the old prom showdown routine would have enlivened this aimless comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/6 | Mar 27, 2008

It just scrapes two stars on the strength of Wilson's best efforts. But for God's sake, someone give this man a sparring partner.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 27, 2008

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.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2008

Imagine Curly Sue, but McLovin-ized.

Full Review | Mar 21, 2008

If anything, this film is more Weird Science or One Crazy Summer then it is Ferris Bueller's Day Off or Superbad.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 21, 2008

Drillbit Taylor is as clunky and humorless as its title.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 21, 2008

Maybe I should have bought popcorn; this movie undoubtedly goes down better when it's partially drowned out by munching.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 21, 2008

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2008

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.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 21, 2008

Wilson gets by on his delivery and his demeanor. It doesn't matter what he says; it's how he says it.

Full Review | Mar 21, 2008

Too much of Drillbit Taylor is the kind of formulaic free-for-all that does Wilson no good, nor anybody else.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 21, 2008

Trying to mix farce with heart, Drillbit Taylor is instead as soulful as Kenny G and as wacky as public television.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 21, 2008

It's no wedgie, but after a while Drillbit Taylor feels like its own form of torment.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 21, 2008

This 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.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 21, 2008

An uneven, stolidly traditional comedy.

| Mar 21, 2008