Employee of the Month is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Greg Coolidge, who co-wrote it with Don Calame and Chris Conroy, and starring Dane Cook, Jessica Simpson and Dax Shepard.
His rival co-worker and head cashier, Vince Downey, earns Employee of the Month for the 17th time in a row and is dubbed the fastest hands in the Southwest.
Frustrated at Zack's new attitude, his friends tell him he is turning into Vince and feel his attempt at getting the title is a result of trying to have sex with Amy.
She overhears the commotion and is disgusted at Zack for his true intentions, prompting her to reveal that she did sleep with the Employee of the Month at her previous location, but that she was already dating him and she broke up with him over his attitude, which was why she requested a transfer.
Iqbal accepts the apology, admitting that he doesn't need his job back because the news of his termination resulted in his wife asking for a promotion at her work successfully, so he is now a stay-at-home father for their kids.
Assistant manager Dirk Dittman gets the receipts for the scanned items in the competition, and Vince's is not only way shorter in length, but the total cost is also less than it should be.
Semi reveals that the video shows Vince not only cheating, but has tapes proving that he failed to ring up items all year, giving away free merchandise, which has cost the store thousands of dollars.
The disc also contains extra improv scenes by actors Andy Dick and Harland Williams, an alternate opening with Eva Longoria showing Vince and Zack's first day on the job watching a video tape for new employees, an "At Work with Lon" feature showing Dick in character attempting to help to customers at Super Club, plus trailers for other Lionsgate films.
[10][11] As such, Slant Magazine deemed it a wasted opportunity to comment on consumer culture using its warehouse club location (a sentiment also shared by a TV Guide reviewer), as well as juvenile and offensive that "[f]rat boys and KKK members will surely love it.
[14] Although the Miami Herald said the film was indifferently directed by Greg Coolidge, they felt he had done so with "the same eye for detail that made Office Space great" despite lacking Judge's knack for creating fully-developed characters.
[15] Ultimately, Rabin called it dumb, mean-spirited, and a "colossal time-waster",[11] and Claudia Puig felt that "you're bound to have more fun working overtime than watching Employee of the Month".
[17] Many critics felt that the well-endowed Simpson gave a dull and wooden performance offset by her physical attractiveness,[7][10][13][18] finding her facial expressions on camera amateurish and ungainly.
[8] Of Cook's performance, Screen Daily and LAT felt that since he was constrained to play an affable lead role, this inevitably caused deviations in the comedic style he came to be known for: the raw humor and loose-limbed physicality.
[7][10] Conversely, Puig said that while Cook managed to adjust to "the kind of story that would befit Adam Sandler", he should have aimed for material that matched his comedic sensibilities.
[16] Rabin felt that Shepard could reprise his role as a dimwitted lawyer from Idiocracy in Employee of the Month, positing the latter film as "a symptom of cinematic de-evolution run amok", as prophesized by Judge's 2006 sleeper hit on society's devolution.