Case in point: Drillbit Taylor, a movie about a so-named homeless veteran (Owen Wilson) who's hired as a bodyguard by three nerdy 14-year-olds (Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley and David Dorfman) being ...

The movie, for and about teens -- the nerdy, repressed, but secretly cool teens that these films routinely champion -- is a misfire in the most fundamental sense.

If Superbad were remade as a gimmicky Nickelodeon movie, it would probably look something like Drillbit Taylor. Both movies focus on a pair of nerdy high-school losers—one fat and boisterous ...

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In Drillbit Taylor (Paramount Pictures), produced by Judd Apatow, co-written by Seth Rogen and Kristofor Brown, and starring Owen Wilson, the career trajectories of three comic talents converge to ...

Stuck paying homage to the movies that preceded it, “Drillbit Taylor” gradually caves in to a multitude of conventions capped by an entirely predictable climax.

"Drillbit Taylor" isn't a Judd Apatow movie in the strictest sense. It just feels like one. No mystery there. Apatow produced the movie, and it was co-written by Seth Rogen, familiar from Apatow's ...

Apatow has four movies out this year, of which Drillbit Taylor is first to roll into town on the comedy overlord's bandwagon.

Drillbit Taylor: Budget Bodyguard” is a surprisingly funny and sweet movie that had both my 17-year-old son and I cracking up and rooting for the underdogs. Owen Wilson (Drillbit), once again plays a ...

Overall, Drillbit Taylor is featherweight, family-oriented and forgettable, which means that in the rare context of films that usually infuriate me, I actually recommend it.

If you’re the cash-strapped kids in Drillbit Taylor you’re stuck with Wilson, an actor whose action movie experience amounts to playing Dean Martin to Jackie Chan’s Jerry Lewis in the ...