ridiculous rating

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

This movie still holds up well more than a decade later. I still laugh everytime I watch it. As a former server at a restaurant, I can definitely relate to this film (minus the spitting & ruining customer's food, though I definitely wanted to sometimes)The acting's good, the laughs are consistent, and it's a fun relatable comedy about funny frustrations in the workplace. 15 years later it's still a great classic!

Anyone reading this review is sufficiently familiar with the internet to understand the precision with which internet search engines can target potential customers. And the movie industry is well-aware of the built in audiences for its products: to wit, the success of the "Harry Potter," "Twilight," and "Lord of the Rings" franchises demonstrate the viability of the formula: Movie+cultural familiarity=An audience. The only variable is; is the culturally familiar audience large enough to make a movie profitable? By this formula, "Waiting" is enough of a sure thing to answer another question: Why was this movie commercially successful? "Waiting" is simultaneously an accurate (if, due to being overly-condensed, unrealistic) depiction of the life of food-service employees and a "warning shot" to the customers of this industry (aka: Everyone else). And while it succeeds at both of these, it fails to be funny, which I believe is its ultimate goal. Instead it focuses on food-service workers as under-achieving, low-brow and resentful people who should be feared for their for their emotional dysfunction and their capacity/position to appropriately handle the anger and frustration that are part of every work situation."Waiting" lacks wit, which I define as intelligent, insightful humor. It seeks to be a Kevin Smith film ("Clerks") but lacks the intelligence and wisdom of Kevin Smith. "Waiting" is gross and vulgar, even containing physical archetypes of Jay and Silent Bob, but is absent the self-awareness of Smith's characters."Waiting" serves adequately to warn restaurant guests that they are interacting with people. But that is not funny.

This was the title of the last 10 star review. I respectfully disagree with the 6.8 grade the movie gets. Unfortunately a chef from the restaurant i work in recommended the movie to me and i honestly can't believe that people think this is a good movie. I've watched plenty of crappy comedy movies and had good cheap laughs but this was just not funny. Furthermore i found hardly any resemblance with an actual restaurant. Recap: The jokes weren't funny, there is no plot, except for a few minor moments the movie doesn't resemble a real restaurant and Ryan Reynolds wears an earring the whole movie. You're doing people a favor telling them not to watch this.

Having devoted years of my life to customer service, I thought this might be a funny anecdote and a prelude and homage to the poor schlep just trying to etch out a living by putting up with difficult people.Instead I was sadly disappointed at what seemed to be little more than bathroom, sex and genitalia jokes that dominated the movie and culminated into moments of "who cares?" and it makes no sense. If you could imagine filming grade school aged boys in the privacy of their own thoughts and circles of friends, then you might get a similar result to any given moment of "waiting". If you worship Beavis and Butthead to the point of enacting their every move and mindset, you'll enjoy "waiting."The thing is, everyone in this cast i've seen in other movies and enjoyed, it's not that there's no talent, I don't blame the actors, what a genuine shame at a waste of everyone's time and talent. I'm not even sure who to pinpoint the blame on. There's nothing funny, amusing, or thought provoking, about "waiting". There's nothing funny about the "game" played amongst the male staff, messing with food, bathroom sex, nervous urinating, crude discussions, nothing. In fact the only sympathetic or relate-able character in the whole movie is Mitch, who seems to escape the charade of stupid and genuinely acts like a real human being. The rest of the overtired, clichéd one dimensional staff are so unlikable that it's impossible to feel empathy towards them when they have horrible customers.I'm giving a generous 1 star, for the cast who I felt sorry for, and for the story thats suckitude is legendary.