Employee of the Month

2006 "In order to get the girl, he's gotta get his shift together."
5.5| 1h43m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 06 October 2006 Released
Producted By: Tapestry Films
Country: United States of America
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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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Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.
Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Python Hyena Employee of the Month (2006): Dir: Greg Coolidge / Cast: Dane Cook, Jessica Simpson, Dax Shepard, Efren Ramirez, Andy Dick: Potential idea about reputation that is reduced to one big absurd mess. Supermarket becomes a great location but under better direction it could have served broader purpose. Dane Cook plays a box boy in constant competition with head cashier and seventeen month top employee Dax Shepard over the affection of new cashier Jessica Simpson. Starts out dumb and only gets dumber right up to its totally lame outcome. Director Greg Coolidge does a half ass job but then again, a little fun with the location might have added some appeal. Cook plays an unsympathetic lout who will obviously grow to care for this girl more than viewers will care for this sh*t film. Shepard overacts constantly as this moron overachiever who obviously has low expectations for himself. Simpson is simply eye candy. Efren Ramirez plays Shepard's dense sidekick who exists to get verbally abused and used as a verbal ashtray by Shepard. Andy Dick is featured to remind viewers that he was funnier providing the voice of the bunny in Hoodwinked. Every bit as lame as that other supermarket comedy waste, Career Opportunities, with just about as few laughs as this idiotic example. Its celebrity promotion proves to be as lazy as its hero is initially, and dies quickly. Score: 2 / 10
Danii Disaster Well, I guess the reason I'm rating it as high as 7/10, is because I expected it to be *a lot* worse. If a movie features a failed/has-been pop singer, you know that it simply *can't* be good. Having seen one other movie with Jessica Simpson (can't even recall what it's called), I can say with absolute certainty that she is truly talentless, and *really* not funny.Actually, she is not the only one -- the acting in general was quite bad in this movie. Not the worst I've seen, but bad nevertheless.The biggest problem (aside from the acting), in my option, was lack of humour. There were a couple of semi-funny moments, but that's not enough if you're going to present your movie as comedy. The jokes were quite weak, and, well, not funny.Overall, however, it's not *that* bad. Obviously, nothing remarkable about it, but many movies in this genre are *much* worse -- they are just annoying and downright unwatchable, but this was actually mildly entertaining, which, like I said, was more than I expected, so I was pleasantly surprised -- hence the high rating.
Prismark10 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.
Chrysanthepop On face value, 'Employee of the Month' looks pretty bad and after seeing it, it's not that great of a movie by any means but it isn't as terrible as it looked. It doesn't have anything new to offer but some of the jokes work well and the sequences with Cook and Shepard competing against each other do make one chuckle. It's certainly forgettable but can be enjoyed in parts (for a one time watch). The actors playing Zack's friends were very annoying especially Andy Dick. It doesn't help that they're given terrible lines. Zack's grandma is the funniest character. Dane Cook is quite likable as the competing employee but it is Dax Shepard who steals the show as the obnoxious arrogant employee of the month who takes an awful lot of pride in himself. Jessica Simpson's role doesn't require much except for her to look good. She seems to compensate for any shortcomings by giving the viewer more than a glimpse of cleavage...on multiple occasions throughout the film. Tim Bagley is funny as the boss. Overall, it's a silly film that doesn't require more than a one time watch.