Employee of the Month
What a colossal disappointment. This had some potential - there is plenty to make fun of and satirize in the world of low-wage low-skill labor. Unfortunately, this movie didn't even try. That Jennifer Anniston movie, The Good Girl, had sharper social commentary, to say nothing of Waiting or Clerks. Ok, so maybe we just cut Dane loose and let him riff on 20-somethings and maybe play out a few Dane-stories from his comedy routine (how awesome would it have been if he went into a Burger King and ordered a Spaghetti Basket or got into a 'thanks buddy' 'alright pal' 'ok, ok, gaylord!' type of altercation, maybe an "I'll fuckin' kill you!' Hell, just have a couple of cans of cashews on his nightstand, something for the Dane fans. Something that lets them connect to the film. Instead any fan of Dane Cook leaves this movie totally disappointed.
instead of anything worthwhile we got a lovable loser with a heart of gold- a totally generic comedy protagonist- by Dane Cook. The friends were a poor man's version of the friends from 40-year old virgin, again totally devoid of personality. There were a few half-assed gags like the clubhouse on top of the shelves and some blind Andy Dick moments but it was nowhere near enough to hold this movie together. The store manager character was terrible, his boss was even worse, and The arch-rival cashier was the worst part of all. There is nothing good I could possibly say. It was painfully, painfully bad. Jessica Simpson, thankfully, had a very small part in the movie that did not justify her high billing at all. She was on about as much as the Grandma character, and served only to set the plot in motion. A contest for the car could have accomplished the same thing and we would have been spared her gremlin-manish face and scoop neck work clothes.
Not sure what else to say. This movie wasted so much potential, and could have been made so much better. I was hoping for a little bit of Grandma's Boy or 40-year-old Virgin. Instead, I wasted 90 minutes of my time - and I'm the easy to please one! I'm the one looking for something to like! And I couldn't find it.
1 comment:
I couldn't have said it better myself. You nailed it on its goofy head. I wanted "Waiting... meets 40 Yr Old Virgin structered like Grandma's Boy (joke,joke,joke,a little plot,joke,joke.) This movie was just cheap and throw in a cheap fart just to get a laugh. If you've got Dane Cook, the most hilarious comic of our time, you dont need an out-of-nowhere, uncalled for fart. That is so cheap. SOme of the most UNfunny writing I have ever seen. It was like the funny writers got frustrated and quit leaving the bag for some inexperienced people on the crew that were forced to write the movie and they were like, "I dont know. whats funny?" Well, you can have somebody fart during a team meeting. "OK, I'll put that. what else?" Well, maybe we should research comedic formula a little more. "OK. I've got Tiny Toons on DVD. We can watch that.
All the jokes were either ages old or just NOT funny. It sucked. You wrote it better.
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