Drillbit Taylor

2008 "You get what you pay for."
5.7| 1h42m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 20 March 2008 Released
Producted By: Paramount
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.drillbittaylor.com/
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Dealing with a sociopathic school bully, three high school freshmen hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them, not realizing he is just a homeless beggar and petty thief looking for some easy cash.

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imdbisforme This is one of the few PG rated films with a hint of biting humour and slightly adult themes. As a teacher, it's very tricky choosing an appropriately rated end-of-year film that students don't roll their eyes at as tame and boring. Drillbit Taylor has some genuine laughs and a solid message of the importance of friendship and courage. It's a little saucy- we see Wilson's bare backside and hear his sexually loaded conversation with his love interest- but it's all tastefully handled- in so much as a teen comedy can be. In an age where parents are freely allowing their children to watch M rated or higher material, but teachers must firmly stay in PG territory, Drillbit Taylor is great film to engage students well used to edgier fare.
Michael Hurricane This is an a actual family movie.I decided to watch it, why, well i was bored. It's predictable, cause it's an a comedy. And like all comedy movies starring Owen Willson why not throw a little romance in there too. Tho predictable it's funny, but not different funny. It has a jokes for adults and teens, and of course some violence for the younger one. But why should you watch it? you shouldn't. I'm just saying tho I liked it you might not, you will if you like comedies. Like all comedies you could see how the movie would end from the beginning. It had some cheap jokes that got me to laugh.Why am I rating this so low? It's simple it's an a comedy. It does not have a plot(i guess). There was nothing special about it or memorable and it didn't leave anything behind (I guess they are the same thing). It's just another comedy film starring Owen WillsonWhy am I rating this so high. This is how i rate movies, every movie that I rate begins at 5 and either it descends or the opposite. And this movie it was decent. It was not bad nor was it good.I'm not going to recommend you too see it... unless you like comedies of course
ctomvelu1 A very unfunny comedy starring Owen Wilson as a bum who is hired by a trio of high school nerds to protect them from the school bully. Along the way, Wilson teaches them a series of life lessons. It all ends with a battle royal with the bully and his buddies, and as such is similar to several other teen-oriented flicks from an earlier era, like MY BODYGUARD, WEIRD SCIENCE and THREE O'CLOCK HIGH. Wilson is just plain terrible, and the three child actors playing the nerds aren't very convincing. Some violence and sexual situations save it from total ruin, but again this is just a rehash of other teen-oriented movies, everyone of them better than this.
srnewton If you watched this movie and at the end DIDN'T know why kids went on shooting rampages back around the turn of the century and commit suicide now, then you are completely ignorant to bullying in schools and the effect it has on victims.I first saw this a couple years ago as a lead in for a special showing of the Get Smart reboot, and I was ready to walk out less than a half hour of this thing starting and not come back for Get Smart.It showcases the things that bullying victims often go through: a relentless tormentor, parents who are unwilling to listen to their problems or refuse to believe them, and a school that refuses to defend the victims, even at times SIDING WITH the bully. It also shows the desperation that victims go to in hiring someone to protect them because NO ONE else will.The three kids tried to do the right thing until the point where Owen Wilson comes in. They tried to deal with the problem themselves, to talk to their parents, and to the school administrators. What they did and went through is a reflection of what bullying victims go through, in that they see no out from their problems and try to resolve it in the worst way. This movie tries to make light of people who are victimized and whatever moral the writers were shooting for was LOST.The bully at the end got what was coming to him to a point: He was just arrested and shipped off for his parents to deal with; but there was no real punishment shown, which is the giant flaw of Apatow and Hughes' work. If a person (the antagonist) has gotten to the point where they're torturing students and manipulating adults into thinking that his actions are pure, then he cannot be simply "fixed" by his parents punishing him. He is a psychopath.It is sad that this is John Hughes' last film, as it is a sour note to go out on. 1/10, and it's only because I can't give it a 0/10.