Waiting... Movie
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Hungry for Laughs? (DVD)
If you don't like it, beat it.
A comedy of massive portions
No one's gonna make it big here.
This is not what I ordered.
Never F&@K with the people that serve you food!
Chicken flied steak, anyone?
What happens in the kitchen ends up on the plate.
Young employees at Shenaniganz restaurant collectively stave off boredom and adulthood with their antics.
| Ryan Reynolds | Monty |
| Anna Faris | Serena |
| Justin Long | Dean |
| David Koechner | Dan |
| Luis Guzmán | Raddimus |
| Chi McBride | Bishop |
| John Francis Daley | Mitch |
| Kaitlin Doubleday | Amy |
| Rob Benedict | Calvin |
| Alanna Ubach | Naomi |
| Vanessa Lengies | Natasha |
| Max Kasch | T-Dog |
| Andy Milonakis | Nick |
| Dane Cook | Floyd |
| Jordan Ladd | Danielle |
| Rob McKittrick |
6.90 out of 10 (25025 votes)
Visitor Reviews
funny as hell
posted on 19 Aug 2009one of the funniest movies i have ever seen. it's up there with "dumb and dumber". i work in a restaurant and serve, and i can totally relate to a lot of the stuff in the movie, which just makes it even more funny to watch. just like any place you waitress, you have the angry server who is always flipping out in the kitchen and at the cooks and manager. then when she gets out in the dining room, she totally puts on a fake attitude. there's one of those people in this movie...very funny!!! if anyone thinks that movie is gay, well then you're gay. there are a ton...not just a few, but a ton of gross parts in this movie. like just real perverted stuff, but thats what makes it so funny.
A complete waste of time
posted on 09 Aug 2009This movie has got to be one of the worst movies ever made. I was ready to turn the movie off 15 minutes into it. This was nothing more than a gross out movie of extreme measures and I find it hard to believe that any person could find this movie watchable. A complete waste of time. I have friends that either work or have worked in the restaurant business. Although some of the items portrayed in the movie have occurred, or they have thought about them, this is just a sick movie. People think that this movie is funny because they know someone who works in the restaurant business, but I find just the opposite. Maybe if I were 14 years old, I might find Waiting watchable.
A day lived through a bunch of 20-somethings eyes as they wait tables at a neighborhood restaurant.
posted on 07 Aug 2009Waiting is a movie full of memorable characters and undeveloped jokes. Waiting is an outstanding movie but under-developed jokes and unnecessary plot points turn it into a outstanding movie to rent and not buy. It isn't all bad though, the incredibly memorable characters have you cheering for them during various scenes and the hilarious jokes have you wishing you had thought of them before. One particular joke runs throughout the movie: the penis-showing game is a friendly game the men working at Shennagins (the movie's restaurant) play. This games involves one man tricking another into seeing his genitals and then ridiculing him for seeing them, hilarity ensues. Once again meaningless plot points and underdeveloped jokes (such as the bus-boy wiggers) limited this comedy of its potential. If you have an extra five bucks, invite your buddies over and rent this comedy, you will have a good time.
This was the Funniest Movie Of The Year!
posted on 05 Aug 2009Have you ever worked in A restaurant? Well then you NEEEED to see this movie!! It's about a day in the life of people who work at a restaurant called Shenanigan's(come on..that's funny!)and what they do throughout the day. Ryan Reynolds does a great job in this movie with his witty humor(Van Wilder), and so does Justin Long (who could forget him in Dodgeball).Also, MTV's Andy Milonakis plays a bus boy with Max Kasch. I must say my favorite for this movie was Dane Cook, with his one liners. This isn't a movie for people who get insulted by sexual comedy easily. All I can say is that i've seen this a few weeks ago and i still catch myself laughing at parts! Check it out, i give it a TEN. See if when you watch this movie, you can pick out which one at the restaurant you were!
Clerk 2 !?! : )
posted on 22 Jul 2009This is a better Clerks 2 then Clerks 2 will be. My new favorite trilogy will be Clerks, Office Space, Waiting.../* I've never worked at any place that serves food but after 10 retail jobs I can truly enjoy this movie. If you are wondering, I've never been fired. The bullshit customers, associates, managers need to be changed every 6 months or so. I'm 24 with only a 2 year degree in Computer Science and this movie was the last little push to get my ass in gear and apply to more colleges. */I'm hoping that the man who created this film will make plenty more.Why is it the greater level of management a manager has, the more incompetent that person will be. After 4 months at most jobs, i could be a manager since i was usually doing his job anyway (yea some places i was a boss's bitch). It's sad that they usually only get $1-$3 more an hour. What is really sad is that some of them seem happy with their level of existence.
way funnier than you might think
posted on 18 Jul 2009this is a hilarious film about working at a resteraunt. Ryan Reynolds really makes this film funny, along with Luiz Guzman, and he had me cracking up when he said, "man you got to make it conspicuous, don't just come out and say look at my di@k!" if u want to see something that had me shocked, rent or buy, i prefer buy, the DVD, and on disc 1, play the behind the scene's feature. at the very end, the director and Luiz are arghuing HORRIBLY BAD, watch it, you'll see what i mean. other than that, this film is one of the funniest film's I've ever seen. it's original, and actually has a meaning to it, it's not all about drugs and sex. 10/10
Why 'Waiting...' is NOT like waiting tables
posted on 18 Jul 2009I've worked in the industry for seven years. I am also writing my own screenplay about the restaurant business. I was looking forward to watching this movie. The trailers looked very funny. I was very threatened by this film in light of my own script, involving the same subject. I have to say that I am a fan of sick, silly, and sometimes gross humor, but this film went a little too far. I thought the film had funny moments, of coarse. However, overall, it missed the mark with me, and I'm usually easy to please. I think there is no real lead character, and if forced to pick one I'd say it's the restaurant. Another problem for me is people who say it's just like working in a restaurant. What restaurant do you work at? I'll admit I've heard and been involved in some sick and crazy stories in a restaurant, but the feasibility of all of the events in the movie happening as quickly as they do...please. No restaurant is so full of wacky high-jinx. Again, some funny moments...Overall, this film does not deliver its promise: from the trailer, "Have you ever wondered what its really like to work in a restaurant?"
Hahahahahaha
posted on 16 Jul 2009I saw this movie with my friend and his girlfriend in theaters. I had never heard of it before then. I was not disappointed. It is basically a day in the life of restaurant workers. The whole movie takes place in one day. Meanwhile, there is a new guy there who doesn't say much throughout the whole thing, and you can tell how awkward he feels being the new one, we've all been there before.A whole lot of funny things happen. It has been a while since I have laughed so hard. My friend's girlfriend was laughing the entire time, and she thought it was particularly funny, since she was a waitress at the time. The penis game they played in the restaurant was the funniest, hands down. The angry chick who has been there forever was hilarious too. You should go rent it!
Earnest auteur effort deserves a decent tip...
posted on 04 Jul 2009...and the one I offer to director/writer Rob McKittrick is this: remember to put at least 15% of your take-home pay into your retirement plan. I understand you're very close to the material, but that doesn't necessarily make for a good story.Essentially, "Waiting..." is a maybe watch-twice comedy about the restaurant business, centered on the fictional establishment of Shenaniganz, and delivered fresh and steaming to your table from the perspective of the wait staff and kitchen crew. The seemingly self-appointed leader of this motley bunch is Monty (Ryan Reynolds, whom I vaguely remember from "Blade/Trinity"), a cynical, smug purveyor of quips and barbs and ostensible trainer of newbie, Mitch (John Francis Daley, who is less of a neophyte actor than I first suspected). Monty introduces Mitch to the rest of the gang, and I'll get to them shortly, and also clues Mitch in to "the game," a running gag throughout the film that is so absurd that by film's end is entirely believable, though still ridiculous."Waiting..." is fairly thoroughly sophomoric and juvenile and whatever other adjectives you might care to come up with to indicate the lower brow excesses of humor. Still, there's something about it that is appealing, though perhaps only to those of us who have worked in the food services industry. The ensemble characters (beyond Monty and Mitch) include Serena (Anna Faris, who will hopefully someday complete the break from her "Scary Movie" stereotype, which she does to some degree here), Dean (Justin Long, of "Jeepers Creepers" and "Dodgeball" fame and a debut in "Galaxy Quest" that never registered on my memory screen), Dan the manager (the always reliable comedian/character actor, David Koechner), Raddimus the cook (the equally reliable and funny Luis Guzmán), Amy (an as yet "unknown" Kaitlin Doubleday), Calvin the shy micturator (Robert Patrick Benedict, a regular on TV's "Threshhold"), Naomi (a wonderfully-realized neurotic trashtalker played by Alanna Ubach, who in another life I would die for), Natasha the underage hostess (Vanessa Lengies, an up-and-comer who shows great promise), Bishop the kitchen sage (Chi McBride, very dry and funny), and Nick and Floyd, two wigger busboys with delusions of gangsta-hood (Andy Milonakis and Dane Cook). Virtually all of these characters are stereotypes with very little depth, whose purpose is to enable one-liners and set up sight gags.Still, there's something appealing about the whole thing in ensemble that's hard to put a finger on, enough to keep me from rating it lower, anyway. Maybe it's because the humor is aimed at a very specific demographic, maybe not. I point with great obviousness at the demographic breakdown of IMDb voters; the older they are, the less they liked "Waiting..." Who knows, maybe it's just guilt on their part from being lousy tippers. Ancient old me, I laughed out loud a few times, and smiled a lot, and only paused the DVD a few times to go smoke a cigarette or get a drink. Not bad for a "Clerks"-wannabe comedy.The major fault of the story, I think, is the overabundance of characters. Cutting a few of them out would have allowed a tighter focus on what little conflict/drama there is in the cupboard-is-bare plot. I realize that McKittrick wanted to populate his restaurant with a full complement of workers, but in the end, it wasn't necessary, rendering the laughs very hit and miss. A similar mistake was made by Terrance McNally when he adapted his play "Frankie & Johnnie in the Claire de Lune" to the screen. It felt like every actor lobbied McKittrick to expand their part and he obliged them all. Next time out, Rob, please keep things simpler. You have talent; time now to bring it under control. I look forward to your next serving, and promise to tip accordingly.
This is FUNNY
posted on 28 Jun 2009Okay, so its not going to get nominated for any awards. HOWEVER, it's funny. People who wont appreciate this movie are people who cant appreciate low brow humor. This movie is pretty much Office Space meets a restaurant. If you liked lets say, Harold and Kumar, Van Wilder and movies of that ilk that aren't ashamed to go the low road for a laugh, then you will enjoy this movie. Come to think about it Ryan Reynolds was in Harold and Kumar.. Regardless anyone who has worked in any kind of service industry will appreciate this movie. My chest hurt when I walked out of the movie I was laughing so hard.. I mean there are so many just classic moments in this film..So if you can just relax for an hour and let yourself laugh at some really stupid jokes and absurd situations you will get a kick out of this film..One more thing.. Stay till the very end!!! Credits bonuses.. I wont tell you what, but i will tell you its worth it!! This will be on my DVD to buy list for sure.
Dead on!
posted on 16 Jun 2009Since my friend and myself both work weekends, we decided to hit the theater by his house. Needless to say, on a Tuesday night, we were the only ones there.Anyway, he didn't care for it, even though he worked in sub shop. I, on the other hand, used to work as a delivery driver for a pizza shop, and was busting a gut from seen one. The only thing we didn't have was a clueless boss. Yet the customers who didn't tip or tipped like squat (i.e. $24.99 order, handing you $25 and say keep the change.) Yes, we even had those orders with five minutes to go.Still, he and I even give each other "the Goat," on occasion 11 out of 10.
good comedy, and good depiction of what its like to wait tables
posted on 08 Jun 2009This film really made me laugh, it was basically a film about "the truth" behind running restaurant. I work at outback steakhouse and this movie does a pretty good job of showing what its like to work in what can at sometimes be a pretty hostile environment. You have the psychotic high pitched waitress Naiomi running around yelling at just about everybody, the new trainee who is already regretting applying, and of course the cute high school aged host girl that all the guys hit on. Let's not forget about the crazy cooks and bussers .. the actor that played van wilder , and the key actor in the movie acceptance are waiters in the movie..basically everything in this movie flows well and I recommend anybody see this even if you haven't worked a job like this you will still laugh consistently throughout.
All the critics are wrong!
posted on 06 Jun 2009OK, so this film has been pretty much railroaded in to a small theatrical release but is destined to become a cult classic along the lines of Kevin smith's mallrats. years from now this will be the disc that kids in blockbuster will be begging their parents to rent for them, or that will be passed under the desk at school. the reason for this is that it taps in to the typical slacker-minimum wage psyche like no other film i have seen, and as a result is my favourite comedy film for years. OK, so as i too am an underachieving malcontent i may be slightly pre-disposed to it's humor but if you like American pie and other films of the gross out genre then you will love it!
The Game!!
posted on 23 May 2009I have looked at the game for all of the people that don't know about it and the kick amounts for all of the different variations are. The Look-1 The Brains-2 The Bat Wing-3 The Abraham Lincoln-3 ( no one knows how to do this) The Goat-4And remember don't just pull down ya pants and say LOOK AT MY D$#@!!!Have a great time playing with all of your friends.Stay tuned for the new movie Still Waiting...This is an awkward game to play with some people but everybody walks away laughing hysterically at the people that fall victim to a deadly variation of the game.
This movie is a classic!!!!!!!
posted on 23 May 2009Love this movie!!!!!!! It will go down as a classic for us that can relate. It reminds me of Steer n' Stein I used to work at in Rancho Cucamonga!!!! Anyone ever been or worked there? If so holla at me!! It was around 1980ish. Steve and Toni were managers there. The entire restaurant is set up just like the movie. We did everything just like in the movie. Down to sucking the air out of the frosting!!!! Cant get more original than that!! If you have never worked at a restaurant than this movie might not mean anything to you. But if you have please, please, please, make a part 2 !!!!!!!! I'll be the first in line to promote it !!!!!!!
100% accurate-awesome movie
posted on 15 May 2009I have worked as a cook in a restaurant, this movie couldn't have hit the bullseye any better. Completely accurate as to what goes on in restaurants--EVEN THE GROSS STUFF. HENCE why I myself don't eat at restaurants any more--at least hardly ever anymore. Ryan Reynolds does a stand up job as usual of making you laugh till your gut hurts. The critics are always rough on movies that don't have someone dying for some "heroic cause" or something of that nature--the critics never know sh%^ because it always consists of a bunch of old guys that like movies that remind them of when they were a kid--Don't LISTEN TO CRITICS. If you want to go to a movie that will make you bust out laughing about every 5-10 min then go see this. If you Don't want to get grossed out by what ACTUALLY happens in restaurants behind the scenes, because i guarantee you it does, they just clean up really nice before the health inspector comes then back to picking slop up off the floor, then DO NOT GO. But if you want to see a good comedy then go ahead and go. I definitely recommend it--GO SEE IT!
Insanely Funny, perhaps less so if you haven't worked in a restaurant
posted on 11 May 2009Not sure if this movie is quite as funny if you haven't ever waited tables....BUT having spent a number of years in the service industry, I almost pulled an abdominal laughing.Whoever wrote this obviously worked in the restaurant business.I worked with every character in the movie at least once.(Sans 'the game')Rib-splitting funny, not citizen cane, but worth every penny.Ryan Reynolds is always amusing and continues his offbeat charm as the central character of this fun flick.Thesis statement: Be nice to your server, tips spelled backward is spit.
Clerks for 2005...
posted on 03 May 2009Waiting... was actually a very witty, fun look at the food service industry. The movie lampoons the work environment at a casual Applebee's-esquire restaurant. The funny thing is, if you've ever had a customer service position before, you'll find yourself saying, "holy crap, that's totally happened to me," yadda yadda yadda. All the typical characters are there... the bitchy lady who sends her food back, the redneck guy who gives shitty tips and of course, they nerdy boss who thinks his job is the most important position in the world. A definite recommendation for any fans of "Clerks" or "Office Space". If you get offended easily I wouldn't recommend it.
Waiting...
posted on 21 Apr 2009While Waiting... will most likely quench your thirst for a funny movie – it does have its share of laughs – it's by no means the best comedy that touches on the woes of work. Go see Office Space or Clerks if you're looking for potent social commentary hidden in hilarious comedy. But, if you're looking for a throwaway movie to fill a summer night, you could do a whole lot worse than Waiting... The movie, in a nutshell, is a day in the life of a group of young restaurant workers. They joke...they fight...they get even with bad customers...they party. The movie does have its share of positives, though. Ryan Reynolds is a talented up-and-coming star who can make you like just about any film he stars in...even when the film is nowhere near as good as he is in it (i.e., Just Friends, The Amityville Horror, Van Wilder). Anna Faris would be funny even if she just gazed into the camera and sat motionless. You get the point. But the movie has its share of negatives, too…the worst, of course, being that you will forget you even saw it a day or two after you watch it because it's totally and completely forgettable. I really had a good time watching Waiting... – some of the one-liners will live in memory long after the memories of the film itself fade away – but the movie is still a less-effective version of superior comedies that are already out there.
Carpe Deez Nuts!
posted on 29 Aug 2009This movie is RAWand had me falling out of my seat laughing! It's not a movie to be watched with your kids. Don't take Mom & Dad along for the fun. This one is best seen with your man or best friend. If you don't mind some bathroom humor and are in the mood to laugh,this is a MUST SEE!!! This is Luiz Guzman at his best! And we'll surely see more of the new kid John Francis Daley. Get out of your easy chair and check out "Waiting." You may just come home a better person. One who treats your waitresses, waiters and service people with respect & dignity. Or maybe you'll start cooking at home a little more often! It's well worth the price of admission! Tell em Chelle sent you!