Employee of the Month (2006)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Greg Coolidge

Writers (WGA):

Don Calame (screenplay) &
Chris Conroy (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

6 October 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Plot:

When he hears that the new female employee digs ambitious men who are the store employee of the month, a slacker gets his act together but finds himself in competition with his rival, an ambitious co-worker.

Plot Keywords:

Employee | Slacker | Competition | Date | Revenge

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Dane Cook	...	Zack
Jessica Simpson	...	Amy
Dax Shepard	...	Vince
Andy Dick	...	Lon
Tim Bagley	...	Glen Gary
Brian George	...	Iqbal
Efren Ramirez	...	Jorge
Marcello Thedford	...	Semi
Danny Woodburn	...	Glen Ross
Harland Williams	...	Russell
Sean Whalen	...	Dirk
Barbara Dodd	...	Granny (as Barbara Dodd Ramsen)
Victor Izay	...	Greeter (Jerry)
Marc Mouchet	...	Gene
Kathleen Arc	...	Grumpy Lady

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, and language.

Runtime:

103 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

Ireland:12A | UK:12A | USA:PG-13 (certificate #42914) | Singapore:PG | Portugal:M/12 | Netherlands:AL | Finland:K-11 | Australia:M | Iceland:L

Filming Locations:

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Company:

Lionsgate

Trivia:

Afraid that Dax Shepard and Dane Cook resembled each other too much, movie execs asked Shepard to go blonde.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The movie takes place in a store called Super Club yet we can clearly see products with the Kirkland label on them. Kirkland is exclusively a Costco brand.

Quotes:

Zack: [Zack holds up a mop preparing to go clean up a spill, when Vince appears out of a break room with a mop] You have got to be kidding MEEEEEEEEEEE!

Movie Connections:

Features The Princess Bride (1987)

Soundtrack:

Supple

You've Already Seen This Movie.

I went in hoping for something that was like Clerks or Office Space, What I received was unfortunately this piece of crap.

Employee of the Month could have been funny or decent, but like most comedies made in the last decade, all of the characters and situations are unbelievably over the top. The characters are all unsympathetic caricatures with no depth and one joke apiece that they tell over and over again. Many of the remaining jokes don't even make any sense. The thing that always makes workplace comedy the funniest is the truth of the situations the characters find themselves in. Instead what was presented is a series of contrived plot points pulled from every teen movie and apparently written by a twelve year old imagining what it would be like to have a job.

There was a chuckle or two and Jessica Simpsons breasts gave a stunning cameo as themselves, otherwise this movie is just another poorly written, directed, and acted cliché fest with no heart, truth or humor.