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New York Times: Drillbit 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. Read more
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: The action sags in the middle, but director Steven Brill gets mileage out of some funny cameos and good one-liners. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Maybe I should have bought popcorn; this movie undoubtedly goes down better when it's partially drowned out by munching. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: The familiarity wouldn't matter if the gags weren't so belabored and, thanks to the PG-13 rating, neutered. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: 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. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The 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. Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: Some 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. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Drillbit Taylor makes last summer's very funny Superbad look even better in retrospect. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: Watching 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. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The sentimentality quotient for this film is set too high. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Overly familiar, underwhelmingly funny and thoroughly predictable, Taylor is a one-joke movie that doesn't even get that one joke right. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: It's hardly worth going on at much length about the movie, a disordered, dispirited shuffling of flailing-to-be-funny and trying-to-be-empathetic scenes. Read more
Matt Weitz, Dallas Morning News: The 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. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: The Apatow vibe may still carry some righteous mojo. But Drillbit Taylor proves that even the smoothest-running hit machine can stand a tuneup every few miles. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Wilson 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. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Even 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. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: Trying to mix farce with heart, Drillbit Taylor is instead as soulful as Kenny G and as wacky as public television. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Movies such as this remind us that Owen Wilson is nothing less than a national treasure. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Too much of Drillbit Taylor is the kind of formulaic free-for-all that does Wilson no good, nor anybody else. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Wilson gets by on his delivery and his demeanor. It doesn't matter what he says; it's how he says it. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: 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. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: In Drillbit Taylor, 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 dispiriting effect. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: If the film doesn't quite measure up to the Apatow gold standard, it's at least sterling silver. Read more
Darel Jevens, Chicago Sun-Times: It's no wedgie, but after a while Drillbit Taylor feels like its own form of torment. Read more
Jason Anderson, Globe and Mail: That 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. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: 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. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: Given the uninventive, not to say downright repetitive nature of the narrative, about all Drillbit has going for it is Wilson's star presence. Or should we say his often agreeable lack of presence. Read more
Anna Smith, Time Out: '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. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: Setup promises a sort of modern Three Stooges takeoff that, unfortunately, is only haphazardly delivered. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Here, Apatow produces a script co-written by Seth Rogen that, although not particularly objectionable, seems a pale shadow of such hugely popular watersheds as The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Superbad. Read more