While Waiting has value as a cautionary document, it's only intermittently funny.
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...
The movie is best when it stops trying to be outrageous and simply goes about documenting the awful universals of the food-service experience.
Waiting makes us wait too long between laughs. But its sly awareness of the people and the work might transport you back to that Pizza Hut, Olive Garden or T.G.I. Friday's in your own "Order up!" past.
The scenes that work are really funny. But for every gag that flies there are at least one-and-a-half that don't.
If you're planning to go out for dinner and a movie, Waiting... should be your last choice at the multiplex.
The sophomorically crude comedy Waiting... confirms your worst suspicions about both the staff in chain restaurants -- and indie filmmakers desperate to be noticed.
Rob McKittrick's sour debut is such an obvious candidate for the direct-to-video shelf, someone will surely be demoted for sending it into actual theaters.
Filth -- be it in the kitchen or the punch lines -- is something I can handle. One-note, laugh-free filth is another thing entirely.
If side-splitting laughter is what you crave, Waiting... will leave you hungry for a slice of American Pie.
Don’t expect a message. Waiting is one thing and one thing only: rudely, profanely, obnoxiously funny.
Waiting... is rude, crude, childish and stupid, which is pretty much everything you want in a gross-out humour movie.
The cast compensates by serving steaming-hot plates of gonzo enthusiasm, kicking things along with unhinged gusto even when Waiting stalls in anecdotal nothingness.
Between a couple of funny scenes and a bunch of unfunny gags, there's not much going on in Waiting ....
Ryan Reynolds' new comedy is like going to one of those T.G.I. Fridays-esque pub-restaurants that it spoofs: It's just okay, but it might leave you a bit queasy afterward.
If you're looking for a hefty serving of rude fun with a side of light meaning, order up Waiting.
It lays out a hearty, all-you-can-laugh buffet, served by some very fresh, in both senses of the word, waitstaff.
Scattershot and under the mistaken assumption that vulgarity is its own reward, Waiting isn't about waiting tables. It's about a group of unlikable and obnoxious jerks who have found one roof under which they can be obnoxious and unlikable.
There’s nothing here but penis jokes and the glorification of statutory rape.
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