| | | From the Producers of Wedding Crashers.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, English, Spanish, Subtitled, Dolby Digital (5.1)
For years, Zack Bradley (Dane Cook) has been working hard at hardly working at the local Super Club. That's until a hottie named Amy (Jessica Simpson) becomes the new cashier. After discovering she's willing to date the next guy to become Employee of the Month, Zack takes on current titleholder Vince (Dax Shepard) in a super-smackdown to see who will win the honor - and Amy's heart - in this outrageous comedy that proves you can't succeed at life and love till you get your shift together.
"...a touch of surreal "Office Space" brilliance..." Kyle Smith, New York Post
"...keeps finding new dilemmas for characters and rewards attentive viewers with in-jokes." Lawrence Toppman, Charlotte Observer
"...witty and peppered with good laughs..." Luke Y. Thompson, L.A. Weekly
Editor's Note
IN THEATERS OCTOBER 6, 2006Jessica Simpson stars in this featherweight comedy about two store employees who try to win a date with her in the Employee of the Month contest.
| Features | Audio Commentaries With Dane Cook & Director Greg Coolidge | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital Stereo | | Featurettes: At Work With Lon (Andy Dick Getting Into His Role), Ad-Libs (The Comedy Crew Going At It), & Alternate Super Club Opening (Featuring Eva Longoria As Orientation Director) | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: Spanish |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Employee of the Month By: Pete Croatto - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 1/5/2007 8:23 PM | |
Employee of the Month's main character, thirtysomething box boy Zack (Dane Cook), relishes having a job with the least amount of responsibility. When the Costco-like store where he works hires a new, comely cashier (Jessica Simpson) who has a history for hooking up with the employee of the month, Zack decides to try harder so he can win her affection....read the full review |
| Employee of the Month - DVD By: Scott Gwin - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 1/22/2007 11:02 PM | | The movie does score points for its mockery of the bulk-rate/low-price business model. An elderly woman struggles to drag a pine coffin off the second shelf, not because her husband is dead, but because she can't pass up the price. Golden moments like that are overshadowed by lame attempts at "intelligent" humor. People literate enough to recognize the humor in two brothers named Glen Ross and Glen Gary aren't likely to find it all that funny....read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Lions Gate |
| Release Date: 2/5/2008 |
| Running Time: 108 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2006 | | Catalog ID: 20709 | | UPC: 00031398207092 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety 8 of 10
The slackers take on the brown-nosers in "Employee of the Month," a spoof of consumerism and competition that's slightly smarter than might be expected for a pic aimed at the Jessica Simpson demographic. Co-writer-director Greg Coolidge's hyphenate debut displays the influence of Mike Judge's "Office Space" on the '90s generation, including that pic's deadpan skewering of soulless corporate life. But "Employee" shifts the arena from the office to a Costco-like superstore...Camaraderie in cast is a key to pic's enjoyment, delivered by the charismatic Cook, alongside his buddies, played by Brian George, Andy Dick (for once, not manic) and Harland Williams, with Bagley, Ramirez and Woodburn in hilarious standout turns. - Robert Koehler
Reel.com 6 of 10
Stand-up comedian Dane Cook brings a scruffy, low-key charm to Employee of the Month, a bargain-basement comedy that generates just enough laughs to make it watchable. The directorial debut of screenwriter Gregory Coolidge, who last inflicted Sorority Boys on unsuspecting audiences, this sporadically amusing workplace comedy combines toothless satire, broad slapstick, and a run-of-the-mill "boy meets girl" narrative, with Jessica Simpson as the Barbie doll-like object of Cook's affections. Although it traffics in all the usual fart and gay jokes, albeit to marginal comic effect, Employee of the Month is fairly benign and doesn't try to push the crude-humor envelope like Cook's last film, the disgusting gross-out farce Waiting. - Tim Knight
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