... don't watch this film unless you have a high tolerance and an undemanding appreciation for penis jokes...
Waiting... (2005)
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Reviews Counted:86
Fresh:26
Rotten:60
Average Rating:4.2/10
Consensus: Waiting… is a gross-out comedy that is more gross than comic.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong crude and sexual humor, pervasive language and some drug use
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Oct 7, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $16,101,109
Synopsis: A hilarious comedy about frustrated waiters, stingy tippers and dicey food, Lions Gate Films' WAITING… stars Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris and Justin Long as young employees battling boredom at... A hilarious comedy about frustrated waiters, stingy tippers and dicey food, Lions Gate Films' WAITING… stars Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris and Justin Long as young employees battling boredom at Shenanigan's, a generic chain restaurant. A waiter for four years since high school, Dean (Justin Long) has never questioned his job at Shenanigan's. But when he learns that Chett, a high school classmate, now has a lucrative career in electrical engineering, he's thrown into turmoil about his dead-end life. Dean's friend Monty (Ryan Reynolds) is in exactly the same boat, but he couldn't care less. More concerned with partying and getting laid by underage girls, Monty is put in charge of training Mitch (John Francis Daley), a shy new employee. Over the course of one chaotic shift, Mitch gets to know the rest of Shenanigan's quirky staff: Monty's tough-talking ex-girlfriend, Serena (Anna Faris), Shenanigan's over-zealous manager, Dan (David Koechner), and head cook Raddimus (Luis Guzman), who's obsessed with a senseless staff-wide competition known only as "The Game"... Featuring stoned busboys, unsanitary kitchen antics, and lots of talk about sex, WAITING… is a hysterical, behind-the-scenes look at the restaurant industry, and an affectionate ode to those lost, and thoroughly unproductive, days of youth. -- © Lions Gate Films [More]
Starring: Anna Faris, Ryan Reynolds, Justin Long, Luis Guzman
Starring: Anna Faris, Ryan Reynolds, Justin Long, Luis Guzman, David Koechner, John Francis Daley, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Vanessa Lengies
Director: Rob McKittrick
Director: Rob McKittrick
Screenwriter: Rob McKittrick
Producer: Adam Rosenfelt, Stavros Merjos, Jeff Balis
Studio: Lions Gate Films
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Reviews for Waiting...
Remember Office Space, with Jennifer Aniston as a flair-wearing Chotchkie's waitress? See, writer/director Mike Judge got his chain-dining establishment just right.
McKittrick neglects to realize that his target audience (males, ages 18-25) presumably aren’t interested in seeing or hearing about the male genitalia at any time...
Waiting... is rude, crude, childish and stupid, which is pretty much everything you want in a gross-out humour movie.
Don’t expect a message. Waiting is one thing and one thing only: rudely, profanely, obnoxiously funny.
A movie for young people, and they're welcome to it. Anyone older than teenage already will have seen every joke in Waiting... in more finely crafted, funnier movies.
For what's essentially a raucous, gross-out comedy, this is a surprisingly tame film.
Not razor-sharp with its satire of the corporate restaurant culture as Office Space was with corporate office culture.
If you think 'Deuce Biglaow: European Gigolo' is the worst movie of the year. Wrong! 'Waiting' is the winner by a mile.
We have to watch [the cast] struggle and squirm just to make each scene not as horrible as the last.
The cast sells the occasional one-liner, but a Reynolds smirk can take you only so far.
If you’re planning on a dinner-and-movie date, make sure you have dinner FIRST (preferably at a restaurant where you can watch them cook your food).
The characters in Waiting... seem like types, not people. What they do and say isn't funny because someone real doesn't seem to be doing or saying it.
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