Employee of the Month (Widescreen Edition)
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Dane Cook, Dax Shepard, Jessica Simpson, Sean Whalen, Victor Izay Director: Gregory Coolidge Brand: Lions Gate Cinematographer: Anthony Richmond Composer: John Swihart DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Published) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 108 minutes DVD Release Date: 2007-01-16 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Lions Gate |
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Movie Reviews of Employee of the Month (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: All Work And No Play
Summary: 2 Stars
Movies that hinge on slapstick and sight gags often try to transcend their own silliness by fashioning around themselves an easy-to-swallow moral coating. In some cases, this actually propels the story (see Sandler's "Click"). In others, it comes across as a cheesy afterthought. Employee of the Month is the latter, a flick that would've worked much better if it had dumped the cheese.
Dane Cook (the ever-more-renowned college-circuit comic) hides behind himself as Zack, a box boy at the buy-in-bulk megastore Super Club. He's happy coasting by until the store gets a new cashier, Amy (played with perma-grin by Jessica Simpson). Discovering that Amy had a thing for the Employee of the Month at her last job, Zack enters into a contest for the title with the store's current Alpha Male, head cashier Vince (Dax Shepard, providing us with one of the movie's only interesting characters).
Zack is both helped and hindered by a host of marginally humorous supporting characters. There's a woefully underused Andy Dick playing the sight-challenged Lon, Efren Ramirez as Jorge (a character that is far, far, far too similar to his Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite), and Harland William -- whimsically weird as always -- has some of the best lines as a stocker named Russell ("She'll slide into the sack quicker than a singed Koala looking for an all-night burn center").
Zack's quest involves the typical ups-and-downs, some easily forecast misunderstandings, and his losing sight of What Really Matters. All of this while he deals with Vince's uninspired machinations and the whims of an easily-spooked boss named Glen Gary (the store is owned by his older brother, Glen Ross -- a Mamet reference in a Jessica Simpson movie; try wrapping your head around that one).
The end result, I'm afraid, is much less than the sum of its parts, and that's due mostly to the film's fear of being too inappropriate. The premise is hammy enough without dialogue that pulls so many punches, and without a story that arcs so carefully around a Lesson To Be Learned (in this case: be loyal to your friends ... or don't be afraid to take risks ... or always be yourself ... or be yourself by taking the risk to stay loyal to your friends. Something like that). Because of this, something that could've been meaty (if not happily goofy) is, instead, just corny broth.
The DVD is aided by more than a few interesting special features, including a few clips of ad libs (most of them involving Andy Dick), an alternate opening, and three Dane Cook segments (including a pretty funny clip called, "Car Brakes Attached to Horn"). These, though, are just window dressing around a view that's not that great to begin with.