The Movie: Employee of the Month, directed by Greg Coolidge
Recommendation: Dee
Reason: "I want to see a Dane Cook movie!"
Next time she wants to see a Dane Cook movie, we're watching Waiting again. At least Ryan Reynolds is funny sometimes. The combination of incredibly unfunny people in Employee of the Month utterly crippled what was promising to be a boring semi-comedy at best. Sure, at the beginning there were a few laughs, but they were predictable and not really big moments of hilarity.
Casting really pared away at the appeal of this movie. Jessica Simpson is...utterly vapid and completely pointless. I'm certain that a Realdoll could have turned in an equivalent performance, given how irrelevant her ability to speak seemed to be to the plot. Dane Cook was an incapable lead, unable to make his character convincing, or hit the comic timing necessary to at least make the guy funny. Andy Dick hasn't been funny since Newsradio, except as a punchline. Dax Shepherd was boring, and Efren Ramirez reminded me of Napoleon Dynamite, which made me want to repeatedly stab him.
What was left to be entertaining was quietly smothered by an awful script and very PG 'antics'. Screwball comedy needs to be let off the leash, or else it easily crosses from funny to boring as hell. Employee of the Month didn't see the line, and after it crossed, it didn't look back.
-110/365 down, 255/365 to go
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