Waiting...
Waiting...
R | 07 October 2005 (USA)
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Employees at a Bennigan's-like restaurant (called, creatively enough, Shenanigan's), kill time before their real lives get started. But while they wait, they'll have to deal with picky customers who want their steak cooked to order and enthusiastic managers who want to build the perfect wait staff. Luckily, these employees have effective revenge tactics.

Reviews
Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring
ClassyWas Excellent, smart action film.
SincereFinest disgusting, overrated, pointless
Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
David Sperling This movie was very hard to watch and it is certainly not worth of your 104 minutes. The "humor" was really childish and I actually felt really bad for the actors. The story itself is uneventful and non-realistic. This title is boring, unoriginal and cheesy. I am very surprised that it rated 6.8 on IMDb as I was really just waiting for it to end and was so sad about my decision to watch this film.
siderite A small restaurant is the place where the movie happens, from start of the shift to its end. We have a "rookie" who will help us understand the goings on, a Ryan Reynolds who is happy to be a waiter just in order to be the coolest guy of the bunch, a Justin Long who wonders where his life is going, a Luis Guzmán who invented this ridiculous penis-flashing game to increase morale and a bunch of semi-known people who lend their talents to this film.The problem with the film is that it is purely character based, therefore we need to find the humor in the very personalities of the people shown. There is no action, no real moral to the story, just a bunch of people doing their thing. And even if Ryan Reynolds is his usual funny self, Justin Long is more of a lead than he is, a strange choice for a comedy considering his character is mostly tragic. Also, in order to "make it funny", you have the extra weird characters that lend humor, but subtract plausibility.There were some genuinely funny moments, but most of the time I was Waiting (sorry, couldn't help it) for something interesting to happen. I would say the movie did what it set out to do, but not very well.
The Grand Master To sum up Waiting... in a word: pointless. It looks like this was going to be another Clerks (1994) or Office Space (1999) but I just found myself waiting for something, anything or even remotely interesting to pop up. However I found myself extremely disappointed that nothing came. Once the movie ended, I was very disappointed that I had wasted 94 minutes on this pointless comedy.Waiting centers on a colourful group of restaurant staff "Shenaniganz" who are disenfranchised with their own lives and could not care in the least bit for their customers, often amusing themselves with over the top sexual and disgusting antics.I did not find this movie interesting, let alone funny. Any attempts at humour was far fetched and repulsive. The DVD cover looked appealing but that's about it.In my opinion, this was a pointless movie.1/10.
ivan2012 Don't watch this! This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. It is filled with attempts at crude sexual humor. However, none of it is funny. I didn't laugh even once. It was so bad I stopped watching after about 45 minutes, and spent another minute fast forwarding through the remainder of this poor excuse for a comedy. The film is so slimy and repulsive that I lost respect for certain actors who played a role in this film such as Ryan Reynolds and Luis Guzman. Justin Long was also in it, but I'll give him a pass since his character wasn't as sleazy as the others. Ignore the 6.9 rating given to this film by IMDb users and avoid wasting 1.5 hours of your life on this. If you want something that's actually funny, watch the Naked Gun or Austin Powers.