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 one's photo immortalized on the wall of fame in the staff lounge. Enter Zack Bradley and Vince Downey, 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--has advanced to become head cashier and winner of 17 consecutive "E of M" awards, Zack is the ultimate slacker whose scruffy appearance and laid back attitude has made him popular with his colleagues, but kept him stuck in the lowly ranks of the store's box boys. The duo's longtime rivalry comes to a bitter head when Amy--a beautiful new cashier with a reputation of only dating "Employee of the Month" winners--transfers to the store, immediately becoming the object of both Zack and Vince's affection and often comical gamesmanship. While Vince instantly impresses Amy with his crowd pleasing, flamboyant style behind his checkstand register, Zack's feeble attempts to charm his beautiful new co-worker quickly backfire against him. With the race to win Amy's affections slipping away, Zack determines his only chance rests in winning the store's next "Employee of the Month" award.

In Hollywood when you run out ideas or when you have to hire the worst screenwriter you can find or even worse when you are just trying to make a fast buck, the studios turn to three kinds of films: the remake, the sequel and the formula film. Now granted these are not always movies that are total stinkers but they are the movies that seem to have the highest percentage of bad films to good ones. The quick dollar is normally the remake or sequel because it’s a branded product and when you just can’t seem to think of anything to make into a film that’s where the formula film like the Guardian comes in. It’s not branded but it is familiar and you can dress up the trailer to make it seem like it might just be something new and entirely different when it’s not. I don’t think I have gotten across the fact that I hate, I mean hate formula films, the ones that actually work are the ones where they take the formula and give it a twist, the Guardian is not one of those films.

For those of you who might not know this, Dane Cook is a comedian who has grown a large base of fans from the tween and twenty something crowd. Now coincidently this is Hollywood’s favorite demographic to target when making or pitching a movie. You don’t believe me just take a look at one months worth of releases (this October for example that will seen Employee of the Month, Saw III, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the Grudge 2, the Marine, Man of the Year etc…) or any month for that matter and you will see it littered with films that are geared towards the more juvenile crowd. So it was only a matter of time before we saw Dane Cook in a film as he has a large fan base of this much beloved demographic. I am not knocking any of these movies or at least not all of them but true gritty and wonderful adult dramas like Flags of our Fathers our nearly suffocated by the movies meant for the tween genre. So shoot me for wanting to see more adult humor like Sideways rather that slapstick humor ala Employee of the Month.

Jessica Simpson has such a pretty face that just looking at her almost makes you forgot she probably couldn’t act her way out of a wet paper bag. Heck I have seen trained dogs when asked to play dead show more talent at acting than she has ever displayed in any movie she has ever done. But darn it all we are in a low brow humor movie geared towards the tween crowd why the heck not have a little eye candy and if nothing else Miss Simpson is some pretty good eye candy. You get the gist, silly jokes, bad acting, over the top stupidity, a moronic villain and some eye candy to try and make you forget everything else you just saw.

Grade: C-