CORPORATE LINE: 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.
THE MOVIE: I’m not too old not to appreciate a good comedy and this would be much funnier if I hadn’t seen it a few times before. The best thing to say about Waiting is that it makes you laugh. Waiting is stupid, juvenile, and downright obscene. Everything a guy needs for a good laugh. There are chick flicks and there are guy flicks—this is the latter.
Ryan Reynolds is as funny as he is annoying. He does what he can to carry a film that has no plot. This is an ensemble that would fall apart without Reynolds leading the comedic charge.
FRANKLY: Waiting has only one hope; as a cult film. If this is more than that I’ll eat my hat. Not really, but I will be utterly surprised. With all the attempts at making me behave in a restaurant it may had the opposite effect. I actually wanted to punch a few of the characters in the face—particularly Ryan Reynolds. So I won’t say this is a movie about paying the consequence of being mean to a waiter—you should be nice if they are good—but if they aren’t good go watch your food and size everyone up—just in case.
+ Charlie Craine
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