Product Details

• Actors: Kathleen Arc, Tim Bagley, Brian George, Victor Izay, Sean Whalen
• Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: January 16, 2007
• Run Time: 108 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000LPR9ZI
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #41,425 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Product Description
Lionsgate Employee of the Month (Blu-ray) 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 honor is the Employee of the Month award, and having ones photo immortalized on the wall of fame in the staff lounge.Enter Zack Bradley (Dane Cook) and Vince Downey (Dax Shepard), 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 trusty sidekick Jorge (Efren Ramirez) --has advanced to become head cashier and winner of17 consecutive E of M awards, Zack is the ultimate slacker whose scruffy appearance and laid backattitude has made him popular with his colleagues, but kept him stuck in the lowly ranks of the stores box boys. The duos longtime rivalry comes toa bitter head when Amy (Jessica Simpson)  a beautiful new cashier with a reputation of only datingEmployee of the Month winners  transfers to the store, immediately becoming the object of both Zack and Vinces affection and often comical gamesmanship.While Vince instantly impresses Amy with his crowd pleasing, flamboyant style behind his checkstand register, Zacks feeble attempts to charm his beautiful new co-worker quickly backfire against him. With the race to win Amys affectionsslipping away, Zack determines his only chance rests in winning the stores next Employee of the Month award. A battle to the end, this film shows that the only failure in life is when one fails totry.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "This is an '81 Honda! How dare you!", October 9, 2006

By	H. Bala "Me Too Can Read" (Carson - hey, we have an IKEA store! - CA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

So now add EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH to the ongoing list of slacker movies. No, it's no CLERKS or OFFICE SPACE, but, nevertheless, I found it quite charming and certainly convivial enough to give it three stars. The acting efforts of stand-up comic Dane Cook and Groundlings alum and Cook's movie nemesis Dax Shepard propel the movie and give it its comedic gusto. The rest of the cast, including some so-called professional funnymen, vary from congenially effective to tepid.

Most of us can relate, at some point or another, to people suffering the woes and aggravations of wasting away in a dead end job. We've all felt that overriding sense of boredom and career unfulfillment. Imagine toiling away at a Costco-like superstore as the lowest of the low, the much lamented position of Box Boy. Dane Cook plays Zack Bradley, a likable, laid back box boy at the Super Club ("where buying in bulk is our God-given right") who was quite content to let the glory go to cocky, super go-getter Vince Downey (Dax Shepard), the "fastest cashier in the Southwest Region." That is, until he falls for new cashier girl Amy Renfrew (Jessica Simpson). Her personal file indicates Amy will only date employees of the month. So Zack decides to be that employee of the month but then has to contend with chief rival Vince, who has held that position for 17 months running. And if Vince gets it for the 18th time, he'll break the Super Club record and will win the grand prize of a brand newish 2005 Chevy Malibu. Will Zack be able to summon some reserve of ambition and achieve this oh-so-lofty goal? Will Dax Shepard steal the movie away from Dane Cook? Will Jessica Simpson ever get past acting on a vapid level?

Every now and then, I feel like veering away from Oscar caliber type movies and getting down and dirty, cinema-wise (and, no, I don't mean those kinds of movies). I'm probably gonna go check out THE DEPARTED in the following weeks, but, tonight, I was in the mood for some crude, unPC shtick. I mean, what do you expect from this B-level cast and from Dane Cook? Rated PG Bill Cosby stylings? C'mon, now. This is pretty much the low-brow stuff that I thought the movie was gonna have, and I'm pretty content after having seen it. It contained enough chuckle-and-laugh-out-loud-worthy moments and enough shots of the nicely-endowed, scantily-clad Jessica Simpson that I didn't feel I wasted my money. Folks wandering into the theatre in search of Shakespearean styles of thespianism are in the wrong freakin' place. EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH is fully a frat movie, its core audience predominantly composed of juveniles and juveniles-at-heart. It does strive to be sweet at times and even attempts to drive home a message late in the flick (which I actually think proved to be more of a detriment to the film).

There are some things that the movie missed out on. Casting, for example. Amy Smart would've been perfect for this role (although, she's perfect in any role) and would've done so much more with Amy Renfrew than Jessica Simpson did here. The word is still out on whether Simpson can act, but there's no doubting that she looks fine. Come to think of it, Ryan Reynolds probably would've also improved on the Zach Bradley role. And I've never been an Andy Dick fan. Guy is too out there and, worst of all, is NOT funny. The film also suffers from not taking enough chances (you could sense Dane Cook biting his tongue in many of the scenes), and the ending was definitely too smaltzy. The humor is also not mined enough in Andy Dick's blind-as-a-bat character, who toils away in the eye-care department. Same goes for the character of Gary Ross, the domineering dwarf.

But, fear not, this comedy flick does offer some nice touches. I liked the idea of a secret hangout located on top of one of the towering, warehouse-like piles of store stock supplies, the concept of the store manager (named Glen Gary) being afraid of his big brother (named, Glen Ross, who turns out to be an imperious dwarf), and Efren Ramirez as Vince's sycophant lackey. Dane Cook, while not Ryan Reynolds, still is very serviceable in the lead role and you almost buy into his 180 degree redemption from a deadbeat to a responsible citizen. And Jessica Simpson does look VERY hot. And, with respect to the other actors, Dax Shepard is truly the one to watch in this film. The combination of arrogance and insecurity he instills within his role makes Vince Downey the most well-rounded character in the movie.

So, kudos to Dax Shepard, Dane Cook, Harland Williams, Efren Ramirez, and - fine! - kudos also to Jessica Simpson. Slackers of the World, unite. Go down some suds, scarf a steak sandwich, and get yourself to the nearest cinema and revel in the low-rent but funny experience that is EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This movie Was Funny as hell...!!!!!!!!, October 15, 2006

By	Christian James Nagel (U.S.A.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This was a great comedy movie!! I don't know why u guys judge every comedy so dang hard though. And I'm not saying that the movie is the best because of Dane Cook or Jessica smokin hot Simpson, but it really was the realationships and the environments of all the characters personalities portrayed in the movie as thier characters, That made this movie so damn funny. "THis is an 81 Honda, How dare YOu!!" Just see this movie, you won't regret it UNLESS U HAVE NO COMEDY IN UR LIFE! lol

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining Comedy With All the Right Stuff, November 28, 2006

By	Cantor Roxburgh (Durango, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Employee of the Month (DVD)

This movie was hilarious!!! Okay, it may not be oscar material exploding with computer graphics, touching dialogue, or emotional nostalgia, but it had everything a great comedy should have...well-developed (though a bit steriotypical) characters, social sattire (in the case of Wal Mart), and a fast, and funny script with extremely comedic antics throughout. Though the humor is a bit crude at times, it is very clever, quick, and witty. The minor and slapstick stunts are awesome, and though this movie and it's plot were not overly original, many of the scenes and ideas displayed were. I suppose if you nit-pick this movie appart and judge every aspect then you may not enjoy it as much as I did. However, this movie was not made to be judged, it was made to entertain; and that it does, side-splittingly-well, I might add! This movie was awesome...by far the funniest movie in the fall of 2006! I highly recommend it!!!