Drillbit Taylor

Dull 'Drillbit' bores into familiar territory

It's a time-honored tradition. Kids get picked on. Authority figures are of little or no help. The abused are forced to seek out a protector.
"Drillbit Taylor," another entry from the tortured-teen universe of Judd Apatow (TV's "Freaks and Geeks," “Superbad”), follows a pair of high school freshmen as their hopes for adolescent reinvention hit a serious obstacle in the form of a psycho-in-the-making.
In attempting to update the bully genre for the 21st century, screenwriters Kristofer Brown and Seth Rogen (co-writer and co-star of "Superbad"), along with director Steven Brill, have exhumed the bones of such 1980s films as "My Bodyguard" and "Three O'Clock High" and laid on some modern embellishments resulting in an unremarkable patchwork comedy starring Owen Wilson. [...]

di Kevin Crust, articolo completo (4270 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 21 marzo 2008