Examples include:. Drillbit Taylor is a high school comedy based around the bullying of new students by older students. As a result, some viewers might find Drillbit Taylor more disturbing than entertaining.
Although this movie shows that individuals who stick together and persevere can defeat bullying, the film contains more negative messages than positive. For example, it suggests that:. You might wish to discuss these messages and the appropriate ways in which your family, school and other individuals can deal with bullying.
Skip to content Skip to navigation. The teacher then refers to the disease as the clap and the drip. The class is then show images of a gonorrhoea diseased penis image inferred rather than depicted and the boys in the class all cringe. Faced with apathetic adults and terror in the hallways, the boys decide to hire a bodyguard.
The only one their allowances can afford is Drillbit Taylor Owen Wilson. Drillbit claims he's a former Black Ops expert. In reality, he's a homeless panhandler and habitual liar who's happy with his aimless life. By now, you're thinking that you already know every plot beat that happens in "Drillbit Taylor.
But you're in the Apatow Zone, where the unexpected is around every bend. As scams are revealed, girls kissed and courage plucked, some very funny stuff ensues. Josh Peck Ronnie as Ronnie. Alex Frost Filkins as Filkins. Nate Hartley Wade as Wade. Troy Gentile Ryan as Ryan. Ian Roberts Jim as Jim. Casey Boersma Chuck as Chuck.
Dylan Boersma Nick as Nick. Lisa Ann Walter Dolores as Dolores. Beth Littleford Barbara as Barbara. Bill O'Neill Dean as Dean. Valerie Tian Brooke as Brooke. Steven Brill. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Homeless veteran Bob 'Drillbit' Taylor manages to enjoy life anyhow and even saves some cash for his dream, an 'all-paid' move to Alaska, even if that may take many years.
His dream comes within reach when clever nerd Wade, has fat friend Ryan 'T-dog' and cocky shrimp Jim, all new to high-school, are bullied so badly by emancipated Filkins and his buddies that they advertise for a bodyguard.
Only Drillbit seems affordable and not crazy, so he's hired and drains their pocket-money and home content. He's clueless how to protect them but gives them bogus self-defense classes. You get what you pay for. Rated PG for crude sexual references throughout, strong bullying, language, drug references and partial nudity. Needless to say, Judd Apatow, master of freaks and geeks, is a producer unsurprising, then, that Gentile and Hartley bear an uncanny resemblance to Michael Cera and Jonah Hill of Superbad.
And of course that's Apatow's wife as Drillbit's love interest, a teacher with a fetish for losers a recurring Apatow theme. The array of cameos is impressive.
David Koechner, Beth Littleford, Stephen Root and Lisa Lampanelli, all of whom are probably appearing in something or other on Comedy Central right about now, show up as clueless adults, while UFC fighter Chuck Liddell and Serenity 's Adam Baldwin play bodyguards angling for the low-paying gig Drillbit ultimately secures with the kids. Valerie Tian, the pro-life Asian girl from Juno , plays the cute nerd girl Wade falls for, and how refreshing it is that the geeky kid actually has an appropriate love interest for once.
The bully here, however, doesn't even have a girlfriend, which may be why he's so angry all the time. Played by Alex Frost last seen being bullied in The Lost , Filkins is like a junior version of Eminem—he even engages in a rap battle at one point.
Frost also has that crazy-eyes stare going like Ryan Gosling in The Believer ; the two could be brothers. It's the character bits along the edges of the movie that keep things lively, like the way Filkins successfully charms the teachers in one scene, then tries to literally kill the boys with a samurai sword the next; or the way that the Asian kid on the promenade belts out Hendrix riffs so well that Drillbit is convinced he's the real deal; or particularly the supporting performance by Danny McBride as Don, Drillbit's skuzzy sidekick.
One moment he's persuading his friend that theft is noble, rationalizing "Steal their TV, they'll read a book! Let's be clear here: Owen Wilson can be awesome. Paired with brother Luke, or Jackie Chan, he's the man. But the key is "paired"—left to fend for himself, he's as out of his league as a solo leading man.
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