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Employee Of The Month

  

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For customers of Super Club the largest high-volume bulk-discount retailer in the country membership has its privileges. For workers at the cavernous store the most coveted honour is the ""Employee of the Month"" award and having one's photo immortalized on the wall of fame in the staff lounge. Enter Zack Bradley and Vince Downey two ultra competitive Super Club workers whose ten years of employment have resulted in drastically different career paths. While Vince - with the aid of his... read more.

Starring Dane Cook, Jessica Simpson, Dax Shepard, Efren Ramirez, Andy Dick, Tim Bagley, Brian George, Marcello Thedford and Danny Woodburn, directed by Gregory Coolidge.
Released 14 May 2007.
Lions Gate Home Ent. UK Ltd. Anamorphic, PAL.
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Kashif Ahmed, 23 Apr 2007 
    
Helium light, supermarket-set comedy; which sees down-on-his-luck slacker / box boy Zack (Dane Cook) competing against minor-celeb cashier/ smarmy company man Vince (Dax Shepard) for the affections of new girl Amy (Jessica Simpson). 'Employee Of The Month' is an undemanding, enjoyable watch with a couple of good gags and a steady joke rate which, commendably, doesn't rely on gross-out humour for cheap laughs. Stand up comedian Dane Cook makes for an amiable, convincing lead whilst the rapport between him and his buddies: Brian George, Harland Williams and an hilarious, Woody Allen-esque Andy Dick, though at odds with the movie's broad comedic style and caricaturised dramatis personae, adds an unexpected dash of believability to the otherwise OTT scenarios. Rising star Dax Shepard, last seen in Mike Judge's excellent 'Idiocracy' and classic 'My Name Is Earl' episode: 'Faked His Own Death', plays his company man for all its worth; striking an amusing, Basil Fawlty-Manuel-esque relationship with sycophant henchman Jorge (Efen Ramirez from 'Crank'). Jessica Simpson doesn't have a great deal to do, though the writer's give her a memorable sight gag which is straight from the Farrelly brothers school of weird, whilst Mamet fans will no doubt appreciate the store's sibling owners named Glen Garry and Glen Ross. 'Employee Of The Month' looks as if it began life as a serious minded satire before thinking it could serve two masters and incorporate low brow slapstick into the proceedings. Ultimately, and to its detriment; the film opts out for the latter, employing clichés and physical humour in a third act that drags and splutters its way to the finish line. The supermarket setting allows director Greg Coolidge ample opportunity to highlight the petty, and often cringe-worthy maze of corporate bureaucracy and employee apartheid; from the legendary cashier's lounge to the wonderful box clubhouse, hidden away amongst the heavy crates and only accessible by forklift truck; an ingenious, slacker-safe-haven in the matrix of the class war between proletariat & bourgeoisie. And whilst it's certainly no 'Office Space', 'Employee Of The Month' is an entertaining, and occasionally hilarious film, which just manages to rise above its one-note-gag contemporaries, in the saturated comedy genre. Check it out.