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Employee of the Month
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 24 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by:
Don Calame (also story)
Chris Conroy (also story)
Greg Coolidge
Directed by: Greg Coolidge
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 6, 2006
DVD: January 16, 2007
Running Time: 103 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, and language
Starring Dane Cook, Jessica Simpson, Dax Shepard, Andy Dick, Tim Bagley, Brian George, Efren Ramirez, and Marcello Thedford
The competition for employee of the month recognition at discount retailer Super Club becomes a winner-takes-all proposition when two clerks go head to head to win the title and the girl, a beautiful new cashier who only dates Employee of the Month winners.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Manny Lewis
It's an agreeable comedy that makes its priorities clear: It wants to be funny at the expense of almost everything else.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
It's hard to fault a script that keeps finding new dilemmas for characters and rewards attentive viewers with in-jokes.
Read Full Review >Variety Robert Koehler
Falling short of being truly memorable but sharper than the general slagheap of comedies.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
For short stretches, the movie has a touch of surreal "Office Space" brilliance, but it's broadly acted, its characters are thin, and the production values are ragged. Still, it's hard to resist its goofy hostility: "You're like the drummer from REO Speedwagon. Nobody knows who you are."
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Luke Y. Thompson
Don Calame and Chris Conroy's script is witty and peppered with good laughs, but cops out a bit at the end with an overly conventional resolution. As for Jessica Simpson... her character is virtually irrelevant, as is her acting ability.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
Manages to retain a certain goofy appeal thanks to the stand-up efforts of its comically adept cast members.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Ultimately, we're looking at a discount "Office Space."
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Mark Olsen
This may be a just-for-fun comedy, but that shouldn't mean that it must entirely disconnect from the world.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Peter Debruge
Coolidge knows he's not making "Death of a Salesman" here (he names the store managers Glen Gary and Glen Ross in tribute to David Mamet's elegy to the American Dream), but he's got the same eye for detail that made "Office Space" great. What he lacks is Arthur Miller's (or even Mike Judge's) sense for character.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
This will never be the movie of the month, but you could do a lot worse at the multiplex.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
The less said about Simpson the better; whatever her talents, she can't sell a simple reaction shot, and, perhaps sensing this, Coolidge's camera tends to drift south of her face.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
Employee of the Month is more tired than a Wal-Mart greeter at the end of a Saturday shift. One can only hope its halfhearted suggestion that winning isn't everything is some comfort if the movie's grosses are as disappointing as its jokes.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
You're bound to have more fun working overtime than watching Employee of the Month.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer David Hiltbrand
So achingly empty, it's nearly existential.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Perhaps Employee of the Month, which was typed then directed by Greg Coolidge, is unfolding in the key of satire. But you'd have to be a dog to hear it.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
The results in Employee of the Month are toothless.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Co-writers Don Calame and Chris Conroy utterly fail to notice the wealth of black-comedy gold inherent in the very notion of sprawling supercenters and instead go for the dumbest gags they can find.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
There's a great "Office Space"-style satire to be made about big-box stores screwing their working-poor employees, but Hollywood studios covet DVD rack space at those same stores, so instead we're supposed to get excited about which of these two idiots earns more gold stars.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Rarely has an actress exuded such blank nothingness as Simpson, a one-woman vapid delivery system who sucks the energy and joy out of every scene she's in, like some freakishly well-endowed black hole.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
I laughed once or twice during this flat and fatuous farce, mainly because director and co-writer Greg Coolidge lifted a lot of it from "Office Space."
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Matt Pais
The only two onscreen items with any star quality belong to Simpson, and they're barely contained in shirts that seem to be holding on for dear life. Comedy fans, beware; breast fans, rejoice!
Read Full Review >Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar
It tries to toe the line between romantic comedy and vulgar pseudo-satire and fails at both.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) David Gilmour
How bad does a film have to be to get the death doughnut? Disgracefully bad.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 4.9 (out of 10) based on 40 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Daniel W. gave it an8:
I really like this movie. It's a nice lighthearted comedy that reminded me of the kind of comedies they used to make back in the 80's. The whole cast was fun to watch, especially Dax Shepard. I would like to see them make a squel to it, maybe Employee of the Year?
Christopher W. gave it a2:
I wouldn't even call the cardboard characters in this trainwreck one dimensional. They are more like quarter dimensional. Dane Cook once again demonstrates his ineffable ability to be fully irrelevant, uncharismatic, and grossly overrated. None of the performances register even a tiny nanosecond blip on the radar screen of memory. Uggg! Oh, and did I mention how not funny this movie is? Ok, here goes....It's not funny!
ERICA J. gave it a5:
Since when do people work 30 days in a row? Aside from the obvious uncomprehensive elements of this movie, there are aspects that make it entertaining. I would not suggest for anybody who wants to watch a good movie, but if your into something that you know will be stupid yet still have some funny parts, this is it. Cook is worth the watch and even Simpson wasn't that awful.
[Anonymous] gave it a7:
I will say, I expected this movie to be complete crap, but it was surprisingly good. I laughed a lot and it was completely entertaining. The only flaw is Jessica Simpson. Not her looks (of course), but her acting....yikes.
Tim A. gave it a7:
It was a pretty good movie. I saw it just after it came out in Theaters, and in some parts I laughed until I cried and others could make a dog laugh. It was a great movie and I would pay to see it again.
Mark B. gave it a6:
Lionsgate Films is definitely falling into some familiar patterns. Every spring they give us a soap opera/ melodrama/ comedy/ drag show from quintuple-hyphenate Tyler Perry, every late October they bring us a Saw sequel, and every early October we get a working-stiff slob comedy with aspirations (or pretensions) to social satire. Last year's entry, Waiting... revealed the untold story of what those Applebees and TGIF waiters are putting in your food when you're not looking; it was surprisingly quite consistently funny and even occasionally thought-provoking. This year's would-be equivalent, Employee of the Month, dealing with the cashiers, salespeople and other clockpunching personnel at a Costco-type warehouse market, is less accomplished, but it'll do. It chronicles the rivalry between two Super Club employees for the titular title: snooty preppie Vince (Dax Sheppard) has won it for 17 consecutive months, and an 18th win would get him a beautiful new car...but slacker Zack (Dane Cook) suddenly decides he wants the honor because a comely new hire (Jessica Simpson) will supposedly only sleep with EOTM winners. (Of course, some may very understandably ask the question of why, since Vince has worked so long and so hard to get the car, shouldn't he rightfully go all the way and why shouldn't we root for him to do it, regardless of his personality flaws? Relax...the movie DOES address this issue, although none too convincingly.) The movie itself appears to be in some kind of competition with 2004's Dodgeball: A True Underdog story to see which of the two can cram in the greatest number of puns and double entendres involving some form, derivative or compound of the word "balls", but the moviemakers DO deserve credit for loading the last half hour with more plot twists, climaxes and reversals than you'd get from an average suspense thriller. Some of the performances help, too: Cook is a generic comic leading man in the Tim Matheson mold, but Sheppard's effete superciliousness frequently reminded me of how boring the TV game show Hollywood Squares got after they fired Paul Lynde. And I never thought I'd be making this statement with a straight face, but here it is: Jessica Simpson is even better here than she was in Dukes of Hazzard! ((She admittedly doesn't do much more than smile pretty for the camera, but that goes a long way in smoothing over her character's apparent contradictions.) And even though Employee of the Month ultimately scores more points on the silly side of the board than the funny one, I must admit, having never worked in a big box store (or ANY convenience store or supermarket) that I learned quite a bit. F'rinstance, I never quite realized that the working relationship between a cashier and his box boy roughly parallels that of Luke Skywalker and R2D2!
Dan D. gave it a6:
As a HUGE fan of Dane Cook, and a 14 year employee of Costco (they used one of our stores to film in)- I had really high hopes for this film. As soon as I heard about it, I was craving Costco meets CLERKS, but alas it came nowhere close. First off, it had very few similarities with Costco or any retailer I've been in- it was a goofy store, and the employees were totally unrealistic. You could tell that none of the actors or crew had ever worked in retail, let alone for a warehouse club. Secondly, Dane Cook may not be leading man material, I hate to say. His stand up is unbeatable, but his roles so far, have been too tame, and don't have the taste of his acts. I'm not sure what would be his type of role, but... Thirdly... Jessica, Jessica, Jessica. Well... she looked good on the posters. Nuff' said.
