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Waiting...
Lions Gate Films Inc.
MPAA RATING: R for strong crude and sexual humor, pervasive language and some drug use
Starring
Ryan Reynolds,
Anna Faris,
Justin Long,
David Koechner,
Luis Guzmán,
Chi McBride,
John Francis Daley,
and
Kaitlin Doubleday
A hilarious comedy about frustrated waiters, stingy tippers and dicey food this film focuses on a group of young employees battling boredom at Shenanigan's, a generic chain restaurant. (Lions Gate Entertainment)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Rob McKittrick
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Rob McKittrick
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 7, 2006
Theatrical: October 7, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
93 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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75
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
Lots of people will leave screenings of this movie in disgust -- and laughter is the last thing they will hear on the way out.

75
TV Guide
Ken Fox
You'll laugh and hate yourself for it.

67
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The young cast members, including Justin Long and Ryan Reynolds, are often spirited and funny, and restaurantgoers are left with a valuable lesson.

60
Dallas Observer
Luke Y. Thompson
Many of the dilemmas that are established never pay off, and there is no clear protagonist or antagonist. To make matters even murkier, the movie is poorly shot in visually uninteresting locations with constant soft focus. That said, it's also damn funny.

60
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Waiting… is only intermittently funny, but when it is, it's hilarious.

58
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
For every gag that flies there are at least one-and-a-half that don't.

50
Village Voice
Darren Reidy
A day in the life at chain restaurant Shenanigan's, Waiting . . . makes a predictable pit stop to elaborately mess with a creep patron's food but otherwise exceeds expectations by handling the real, soul-sucking fears of the double shift.

50
LA Weekly
Tina-Louise Reid
McKittrick cites "Dazed and Confused" as well as "Clerks" as influences, yet he lacks the raw edge of early Smith and the existential drift of Linklater. And if side-splitting laughter is what you crave, Waiting . . . will leave you hungry for a slice of American Pie.

42
Entertainment Weekly
Gregory Kirschling
With its sweet stupidity and shoddy production values, Waiting... knowingly evokes bad '80s R-rated comedies, but the differences are telling.

42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Don't watch this film unless you have a high tolerance and an undemanding appreciation for penis jokes and humor based more on a capacity to disgust than to surprise.

40
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
Doesn't serve up enough laughs to build a theatrical following but could find life on video as a takeout item.

40
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
There's real potential in the premise of young, unmotivated screw-ups logging time at a dead-end restaurant job--a hash-slinging "Office Space," basically--but first-time writer-director Rob McKittrick makes it look like a homemade sitcom laced with profanity.

40
Variety
Dennis Harvey
The wait for laughs lasts the entire length of Waiting ..., first feature from writer-director Rob McKittrick that aims to be a "Clerks"-type comedy set in a chain restaurant but ends up somewhere below a "Porky's" sequel.

40
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
The filmmaker captures a certain exaggerated verisimilitude, but the comedy is surprisingly flat. The cast sells the occasional one-liner, but a Reynolds smirk can take you only so far.

38
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
There must be humor here somewhere.

38
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Teenage boys will be in heaven. All others: Check, please.

38
Miami Herald
Peter Debruge
The movie is a clumsy and uninspired mess, which is not to say that it's not funny.

30
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
It's a great premise for comedy, but this thing is too dumb to do it justice.

25
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Those endless end credits reveal that McKittrick previously worked at Steak & Ale, Roadhouse Grill and Friday's. He may well need to return to his line of work after a debut as dismal as this one.

25
USA Today
Mike Clark
Geared to 16-year-olds who can't name the governor of their state, this movie ought to be closed down by the health department.

25
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt
Could have been a funny movie. There are a few truths about food-service that McKittrick gets right but doesn't fully exploit.

25
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
This warmed-over slop feels as if it's been
congealing for twice that long.

20
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
It's lewd, crude and socially irredeemable.

0
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Putrid comic stew.

0
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Never aims higher than the urinal.

0
Premiere
Sara Brady
Waiting is, at its root, a heaping handful of almost-funny ideas cobbled together without much skill for shaping a story. The result is that one in five provokes a smile, while the other four make the viewers slightly sick that they now have to remember what they just saw.


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