REVIEW - Employee of the Month

Directed by Greg Coolidge
Written by Don Calame, Dane Cook, Greg Coolidge
Rated PG-13 - 108 minutes
Released Oct. 6, 2006

While I watched Employee of the Month, I thought a lot about things I had seen before. There isn't a whole lot of originality here, it's one of those movies that is so cliche it even has the obligatory crane shot immediately following the hero's triumph, and a sweet old grandma who shares sweet and innocent advice about love before reminding her grandson to "wash his balls." Funny yes, but I've seen it before, and I've seen it done so much better. This movie has so many things I do not like. Cookie cutter plot and characters, utter predictability, and worst of all Jessica Simpson.

So how is it that I didn't hate this movie? Most likely the cast... besides Jessica Simpson that is. Dane Cook may have been the hero but Dax Shepard was the star. As funny as his wrist brace was, I hope he was wearing a back brace as he did so much of the heavy lifting. The supporting cast provided a few laugh out loud moments, too bad they were relegated to being scenery and plot devices instead of flesh and blood dynamic organisms.

On the Mr. Blunderson scale, I give Employee of the Month a "why not?"