This vapid, laugh-lite romp won't satisfy anyone. Except die-hard Jessica Simpson fans.
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04/22/08
Employee of the Month (2006)
21 %
Reviews Counted: 85 Fresh: 18 Rotten:67 Average Rating: 4.1/10
Consensus:
Employee of the Month features mediocre performances, few laughs, and a lack of satiric bite.
Rated: 12A
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Theatrical Release: 05-01-2007
Synopsis: For years, Zack Bradley (Dane Cook) has worked hard at not working hard at all, coasting under the radar as an ambitiously invisible box-boy at the local Super Club. Living with his grandmother, and spending his free time with his box-boy crew, Zack keeps people's expectations of him as low as... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Jessica Simpson, Dax Shepard, Dane Cook, Andy Dick, Tim Bagley
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The latest in a long line of lowbrow slacker comedies of the Clerks persuasion, Employee Of The Month is funnier and smarter than most of its contemporaries.
01/09/07
Top Critic
saddest thing about this unpleasant, mirthless film is that it's photographed by Anthony Richmond.
01/06/07
A likeable cast is underused in this cut-price guy comedy with only the occasional laugh.
01/04/07
Top Critic
Basically, in the genre of workplace-based comedies, Employee of the Month is no Office Space, but it's nowhere near as bad as, say, Waiting, either. Watchable, but entirely forgettable.
01/04/07
Amy is little more than a pretty face, undermining the film’s female appeal and leading one to wonder if Dukes of Hazzard eye candy Simpson is becoming a trifle typecast.
12/30/06
Top Critic
Keeps a smile on your face even though there are only a couple of actual laughs along the way.
10/18/06
...there's ultimately very little here to appeal to even the most die-hard Cook fanatic.
01/31/08
So tossed-off and muddled it'll likely bore even the blue-collar male audience at which it's aimed.
03/01/07
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02/09/07
It's predictable and formulaic, with some slapstick, visual and toilet humour that may not have you falling in the aisles, but amuses in an undemanding way.
02/01/07
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.
12/19/06
There are people who think Cook is funny, but you won't find any evidence of that here.
11/24/06
Cook's creepy smirk is downright hypnotic. You keep staring at it, seeking to find the gears and flywheels beneath the flesh, but the harder you look, the less you see.
10/30/06
refuses to go beyond shallow observations and silly slapstick, making for an ordinary outing when that should not be the case
10/26/06
By virtue of its title alone, is it too much to expect "Employee of the Month" to be something special, perhaps a cut above your everyday comedy? Shouldn't the jokes make that extra effort, as well as the cast?
10/16/06
The problem lies with the bland bombshell at the center and the overall sense that the filmmakers keep missing obvious comic opportunities.
10/12/06
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