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75Lots of people will leave screenings of this movie in disgust -- and laughter is the last thing they will hear on the way out.
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75You'll laugh and hate yourself for it.
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67The young cast members, including Justin Long and Ryan Reynolds, are often spirited and funny, and restaurantgoers are left with a valuable lesson.
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60Waiting… is only intermittently funny, but when it is, it's hilarious.
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60Many 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.
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58For every gag that flies there are at least one-and-a-half that don't.
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50McKittrick 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.
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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.
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With its sweet stupidity and shoddy production values, Waiting... knowingly evokes bad '80s R-rated comedies, but the differences are telling.
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42Don'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.
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40Doesn't serve up enough laughs to build a theatrical following but could find life on video as a takeout item.
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40There'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.
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40The 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.
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40The 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.
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38There must be humor here somewhere.
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38The movie is a clumsy and uninspired mess, which is not to say that it's not funny.
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38Teenage boys will be in heaven. All others: Check, please.
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30It's a great premise for comedy, but this thing is too dumb to do it justice.
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25Could have been a funny movie. There are a few truths about food-service that McKittrick gets right but doesn't fully exploit.
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25This warmed-over slop feels as if it's been congealing for twice that long.
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25Those 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.
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25Geared to 16-year-olds who can't name the governor of their state, this movie ought to be closed down by the health department.
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20It's lewd, crude and socially irredeemable.
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0Waiting 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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0Never aims higher than the urinal.
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0Putrid comic stew.
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