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2005

1h 33m

Comedy

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Staffers at the restaurant Shenaniganz engage in various pranks and games -- both on and off the clock. However, in the course of one day, waiter Dean (Justin Long) must choose to either accept a promotion to manager or go off in search of greener pastures. Meanwhile, his co-worker and roommate, Monty (Ryan Reynolds), fights temptation in the form of an underage colleague, while showing a new employee (John Francis Daley) the ins and outs, providing him the worst first day of his life.

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Critics Consensus

Waiting... is a gross-out comedy that is more gross than comic.

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Scott Tobias

AV Club

04/28/2020

Were the dialogue funnier and the characters more endearing, the film's total lack of forward momentum would be a winning quality...

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Andrew Pulver

Guardian

06/03/2006

2/5

Pretty much everything that happens, and everyone who appears, seems to have been machine-tooled to appeal to the slacker constituency.

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Kimberley Jones

Austin Chronicle

10/29/2005

0/5

Frequently offensive and doggedly disgusting.

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James Croot

The Post NZ

02/23/2023

2/5

As routine and bland as the food our protagonists are forced to serve.

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Steve Persall

Tampa Bay Times

04/28/2020

F

We can handle anything a prankster like McKittrick can dish out, if he doesn't treat us like the customer in Waiting who sends an undercooked steak back to the kitchen. He thinks comedy is all bodily fluids and cruel gutter talk...

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Rubin Safaya

Cinemalogue

04/28/2020

Instead, it fizzles like the stale beer served at a bad restaurant...

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RAYMOND O

@WarDaddy007 Mar 17

I've always loved this movie. I've watched it multiple times. Its always funny and reminds me of my days waiting tables. Look how low critics rate it. That just goes to show what elitest prudes they are and have no clue what Average Americans like. Its probably the same reason a lot of movies today are lame. They are too busy trying to appease critics and not regular people

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Brayton C.

@superguy Mar 1

This movie is obviously appealing to a certain type of humor, but it sticks to its guns and ends up being pretty funny throughout. You root for the characters even though most of them are not good people.

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Karen F

@foster.karen Feb 23

Silly so dumb! Funny to see now though

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Zach J.

@Jenkins158 Dec 14

7/10

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Josh D

@RT54708242 Dec 4

This movie is a prime example of why Critic scores are useless. This movie is transparent about what it is. It's a silly movie with a lot of shenanigans and a plot that is mostly buried under all the funny and easily digestable nonsense. Always worth a watch

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Jack F

@MovieFan111 Nov 18

I really liked it. It had heart. Van Wilder, Waiting, Eurotrip, Harold and Kumar, and maybe Grandmas Boy all together created the fantastic subgenre I call the "Raunch com"

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Synopsis

Staffers at the restaurant Shenaniganz engage in various pranks and games -- both on and off the clock. However, in the course of one day, waiter Dean (Justin Long) must choose to either accept a promotion to manager or go off in search of greener pastures. Meanwhile, his co-worker and roommate, Monty (Ryan Reynolds), fights temptation in the form of an underage colleague, while showing a new employee (John Francis Daley) the ins and outs, providing him the worst first day of his life.

Director: Rob McKittrick
Producer: Jeff Balis, Papussamol Pawatkamolpat, Stavros Merjos, Jay Rifkin, Adam Rosenfelt
Screenwriter: Rob McKittrick
Distributor: Lionsgate Films
Production Co: Element Films
Rating: R (Pervasive Language|Crude Humor|Sexual Humor|Some Drug Use)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 7, 2005, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 19, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $16.1M
Runtime: 1h 33m
Sound Mix: Surround