Movie Review - Employee of the Month
Summing up comedy in 104 minutes!

Well folks, in anticipation of seeing The Departed at the movies before 12 p.m. today, I thought I would review a recently released movie saw earlier this week. I am talking about the soon to be on Fox's Saturday afternoon movie rotation, Employee of the Month.

Okay, the movie made me a laugh a couple times. However, there were moments throughout the movie that reminded me of every other movie I originally laughed at. Do you remember in Happy Gilmore when Adam Sandler was singing into the intercom, "I want to kiss you all over..." Well, that exact line, word for word, comes out. Same situation. Same overdramatic facial expression and singing. Remember when Dark Helmet was playing with his dolls in Spaceballs? Well, come watch it again in Employee of the Month!

I won't ruin the story line and explain it all. Actually, I won't ruin your day by making you read about the plot. It goes like this. Boy meets girl. Girl resists guy. Guy changes to get girl. Friends abondon guy. Girl finds out alterior motives to guy. Guy loses girl. Guy has a revelation and gets girl.

Okay, now for the review of each the top 4 billed actors in this movie.

Dane Cook - You know, I first thought this guy was funny. However, his act to me gets really old really quick. He has some funny mannerisms and looks a little ridiculous, but it is just not a great performance. Stick to the stand-up where your fans will clap and laugh at every big word you use or bring up every single every day topic once covered by Seinfeld.

Jessica Simpson - Tolerable, until the last 20 minutes of the movie. She has no business acting, singing, or breathing.

Dax Sheppard - This guy was on the first season of Punk'd. I used to think he was the funniest part of the show. I would think "Hey this Dax guy could probably make it in the movies." Well, I didn't think he would take that comment seriously. He does his best Will Farrell impersonations throughout the movie but it just doesn't work. I just wasn't "feelin'" it.

The guy who played Pedro from Napolean Dynamite - Unfortunately, this guy should not try to act like Pedro in every movie. They gave him some bad lines to say, but he tried. I felt bad for him that the only time I really laughed at anything he did was hitting his head on the register.

Overall Grade: C-
My wife (26) and her cousins (17 and 21) like the movie, which I think should explain how you would feel about it. I like things that are genuinely funny. I will watch Anchorman 100 times and laugh the same as I did the first time, but don't put those lines in the middle of another movie or else it is not funny. You know in the commercial for this movie when the golf ball hits Pedro in the head, then Dax yells out the window "This is an 81 Honda! How dare you?!" Well, the audience was laughing hard. I was not. Cut to a corporate softball game scene where the wholesale club where the movie takes place goes against the movie equivalent of a Wegmans. Well, a corporate big wig from the wholesale company is a midget. You know the midget from Seinfeld. He is playing. They don't show how he got on base, but somebody hits a deep ball. The little guy runs. The third base coach tells him to stay but he keeps going. The catcher gets the ball and the little guy runs full steam into the catcher just to hit him, bounce off him, and land flat on his back. I laughed so hard. People turned to look at me in disgust. So, when deciding to see this movie think about this criteria for yourself:

-Do I like seeing repeated material from previous comedy movies?
If yes, continue...
-Do I pee myself at the thought of Dane Cook?
If yes, you are weird, but continue...
-Do I find a midget falling down funny?
If yes, then do not see this movie. If no, come to my house. I'll throw lemon juice in your eye and rip your money in half.