"Drillbit Taylor" * (out of four): Tone-deaf would-be comedy about three high school wimps who hire Owen Wilson as their bodyguard. If this sounds familiar it's because there's nothing new here.

"Drillbit Taylor". It's one of those titles, like "Joe Dirt" or "Deuce Bigalow", that get applied to a one-joke comedy in the hope that laughs will fall out by virtue of the name alone. "Drillbit" - a tone-deaf would-be comedy about three high school wimps who hire Owen Wilson's titular loser as their bodyguard - feels like a bargain-basement knock-off of any number of teen movies. "My Bodyguard" comes-out-swinging to mind ("Drillbit" even features a cameo by "My Bodyguard" himself Adam Baldwin - amazingly Kevin Costner, or Matt Dillon for that matter, is nowhere to be found). But "Drillbit" lacks even the slightest inspiration to make it anything more than the sum of its rehashed parts.

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