Waiting...
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.
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- Cast:
- Ryan Reynolds , Anna Faris , Justin Long , David Koechner , Luis Guzmán , Chi McBride , John Francis Daley
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Absolutely Fantastic
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
I don't know why people gave a good rating on this movie.... It's really bad
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.
The theme is employees of a business put up with behind the scenes problems and nuisances but if needing the job somehow pull through and continue to collect their pay. The hit Hollywood movie IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME 1949 and the hit British situation comedy ARE YOU BEING SERVED 1975 through 1975-82 are prime examples of this genre at its finest. WAITING 2005 is a Hollywood comedy which fictionalizes the problems behind the scenes of employees at a chain restaurant which for some reason is visualized by the photographer and editor as resembling many branches of the real Applebees chain. The movie focus on crude humor melded to public male nudity. What seems fascinating is the prediction in this well made and edited film of the general historic failure to soon follow of branches of chain restaurants as more and more emigres to American urban centers in which chain restaurants often focus their branches recently relocated from more rural areas of low population density. If not in fact today frankly preferring takeout when this is a local option they otherwise prefer the food court in which the customers line up at the counter of the particular takeout they prefer at that hour to be invited if they prefer to consume their meal at tables within the facility but not managed by the counter staff at which they order their food.In retrospect this level of chain restaurant branch which once flourished in neighborhoods in which the local patrons preferred to regularly visit these establishments for regular meals is today on the way out on the American landscape.
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.