While watching any flick, if one feels it necessary to take a break, it might not mean that the overall product is that strong or memorable. And even while writing this, I feel fatigued. But the basic lay out of Drillbit Taylor sounds like it should be decent. Take something written by Seth Rogen, adding Judd Apatow as the film’s producer and placing Owen Wilson to play the title character, an AWOL soldier, should come off decently well. Uhh, it didn’t.

Despite who your favorite Wilson brother is, the role that Owen inhabits could have come off worse than it did, although, the pre-pube setting of this high school comedy doesn’t really allow for too much adult themed mayhem. With three nerdly freshman being harassed by some maniacal, tiny eyed over compensator, the protagonists decide to higher a body guard. Unfortunately, since they’re each about four teen years old, there’s not too much money to rub together in order to secure this sort of protection. And after a day of interviewing over qualified thugs and murderers, Drillbit Taylor (this Wilson) agrees to take the gig for something like eighty four dollars on the barrel head. It should be obvious to these kids that this supposed deadly weapon is full of it, but Rogen’s script doesn’t grant any character an overwhelming mental acumen.

And as much as I believe Rogen to be at the beginning of a (hopefully) long lasting and hilarious career, his writing here comes off as nothing short of drivel. Of course, the setting of Drillbit Taylor doesn’t do the film any favors. When considering the other features Apatow and Rogen have gone in on – and their relative success – it would seem an obvious decision to stay in roughly the same demographic when setting up this flick. While a few quips by the tubby, afroed Troy Gentile make the viewer figure that this is the vessel through which Rogen voiced his adolescent self, these moments are so few and far between that when you hit one, you’ve forgotten the last.

The brief foray into any adult themed material is limited to Taylor nailing a teacher at the school his trio of underlings attend. And while Leslie Mann’s hot - and Apatow’s wife - the character is pretty flat, coming off as just some poor sap who sadly wound up teaching high school English. Again most of the trouble is the writing. The one dimensional characters in a film that comes closer to two hours than an hour and a half seems ridiculous. There’s ample time, though, for numerous chase scenes with the three kids being tormented as well as more than a few minutes of Taylor ‘training’ them, but not enough, apparently, to develop anyone for real.

There’ve got to be a few redeeming moments, I just can’t summon them, though. Hopefully, the behind the scenes folks continue to work – surely they will. And with Rogen’s three projects in the works as we speak, at least two will so effortless surpass this feature, Drillbit will be easy to forget.