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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.
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Comedies
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
Reviews for Waiting...
For what's essentially a raucous, gross-out comedy, this is a surprisingly tame film.
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.
As someone who spent time in a steakhouse kitchen, I can say Waiting . . . comes close to reality, especially with its cast of characters.
Despite its flaws, it really is a funny, witty, and suprisingly charming slob comedy
The funniest scene is also the saddest: The kitchen crew, having cleaned up, watching the clock like New Year's, goes nuts when a couple is seated a minute before closing. This is pain.
Sharp-witted and fairly consistently hilarious, rustling up some affectionate, but mostly disturbing, flashbacks to my own restaurant days.
Its particular brand of puerile humor is often well-played enough to earn laughs -- though it could still use some improvement.
An obvious but undeniably funny mix of National Lampoon's Animal House and Clerks, writer-director Rob McKittrick's feature debut is a comedy for those without a gag reflex and for shut-ins who never plan to eat in a restaurant ever again.
Waiting... is rude, crude, childish and stupid, which is pretty much everything you want in a gross-out humour movie.
Rob McKittrick’s debut is most successful at its simplest — unflinching in the way a lot of 20somethings talk and act in the company of friends.
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