Employee of the Month
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.
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- Cast：
- Dane Cook , Jessica Simpson , Dax Shepard , Andy Dick , Tim Bagley , Brian George , Efren Ramirez
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I love this movie so much
the audience applauded
Let's be realistic.
In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
Zack Bradley (Dane Cook) is a box boy happy wit his lot at the SupperClub supermarket. Zack once went into business but it failed, he is now happy to be a slacker, popular with his fellow employees as he and his fellow box boys hook up in a cubby hole for a game of cards.On the other hand Vince Downey (Dax Shepard) the head cashier is regularly the winner of the Employee of the Month awards. When a new shapely employee arrives Amy (Jessica Simpson) with a reputation of dating only the Employee of the Month, Zack and Vince go all out to win the award!Dane and Dax go all out to make this movie work, Dane is likable enough as slacker Zack and Dax is oily and fake enough be a thorn on his side but he is made out to be almost a closet gay with his relationship with Jorge, you never buy for a moment that Vince would want to sleep Amy. In fact he is so darn uncomfortable around her he would had been better off dating the store manager who is heavily implied as being gay.Jessica Simpson looks good enough with her cleavage so you never notice her acting. The film is amusing enough if rather predictable, you know that once Zack goes all out for the award his relationship with his boys will become strained. There are some good side characters such as Jorge, Vince's wing man and the two squabbling brothers Glen Gary and Glen Ross.
Zack Bradley (Dane Cook) is a slacker who knows all the tricks and popular with everybody. That is except for Vince Downey (Dax Shepard) who has become head cashier of the store and winner of seventeen consecutive "Employee of the Month" awards. Amy (Jessica Simpson) is a new cashier who only dates "Employee of the Month" winners. Zack and Vince compete to get Amy's attention by trying to win the award.There is something annoying about Dane Cook. There's a side of meanness and arrogance to his character without the joy. It's a major problem. At least Dax Shepard is suppose to be unlikeable. If they do a switcharoo, it would vastly improve the situation. Jessica Simpson at least smiles a whole lot. So she's more than a pair of boobs. She's a pair of boobs with a smile. There's also Andy Dick, and Harland Williams. It's a case of more isn't always more. They are funny as the wacky guy in the group. Put them together and they step on each other's jokes.
Generic, not terribly original, but harmless and gives a few good laughs where other concept movies (eg Skyfall) flounder. An old story of a played out, seeming loser, falling for a gorgeous girl, and, having to win her despite the evil machinations of an arrogant, successful rival - all worked out in the melange of a large supermarket. There are some sharp observations about such institutions, but does not waver into outright parody, some funny character interest,(but not all successful, especially the hero's slacker mates), some comic jokes at US corporate life and a romcom relationship that meanders to a successful end, despite Jessica Simpson only managing to match Jennifer Aniston's bland screen persona and performance standard. The acting mostly is okay, and the direction not showily competent. The plot line is the race for 'Employee of the Month' in the superstore between hero and villain, because it is reckoned that Jessica Simpson will hit the sack with the winner ( Hollywood misunderstanding of Ms Simpson's feminist sensibilities!), so the race becomes very competitive. Good harmless fun!
I didn't expect much from this movie, and for the most part I didn't really get much out of this movie. It isn't a terrible movie, it just isn't a good one either. Everything about this movie is just way to formulaic and narrow, where almost everything about it is predictable and not funny. The movie did have very slight moments that I slightly found myself not hating this movie entirely. There is just nothing witty about it and none of the characters really stood out, Dane Cook wasn't bad and wasn't all that good either in this. The whole thing about this movie was just...Eh. And that is about it, nothing really memorable and nothing really witty or clever either. It just feels like it took few aspects of other comedic films and mashed them together a bit in the most formulaic and narrow way possible.5/10
