Drillbit Taylor: 3 out of 5 stars
writers: Kristofor Brown, Seth Rogan
director: Steven Brill
Business in Hollywood isn't difficult to figure out. If something works, do it again... and again... and again until it doesn't make money anymore. Almost all of us have uttered at one time or another that there are no new ideas in Hollywood and every year this seems to be more and more true. The box office seems to be cluttered with remakes and retreads, the same old stories and the same old characters put on display time and time again. Knowing what I know about business in Hollywood, it isn't hard to guess what happened with Drillbit Taylor, a high school comedy produced by Judd Apatow and written by Seth Rogan. Either, A) the studio had made it before Superbad, wasn't crazy about how it came out, put it on the shelf, decided they could make some money off it once Superbad blew up. Or B) After Superbad blew up the studio grabbed whatever script Seth Rogan had lying around and rushed it into production before the Superbad craze died down. Drillbit Taylor has everything you would expect from Seth Rogan with characters that are eerily similar to, if not exactley the same, as those in Superbad. At times I felt like I was watching what must have been the first draft of Superbad combined with another script about a homeless drifter. There was nothing new or original about the movie at all.
All that being said, I loved Superbad and I love Judd Apatow and I love Owen Wilson. In many ways this movie was a waste of great comedic talent, it included performances by Leslie Mann, Danny McBride, Stephen Root, Lisa Lampanelli, Kevin Hart, Matt Besser and David Koechner, but it still had it moments. I laughed, maybe not as much as I would have wanted, but I laughed enough. If I had spent money to see this in the theater I most likely would have walked away pissed, but seeing it through Netflix made it pleasantly enjoyable. If you're not expecting the world, Drillbit Taylor is worth a watch.
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