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Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Great Film overall

Absolutely the worst movie.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

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.

A small restaurant is the place where the movie happens, from start of the shift to its end. We have a "rookie" who will help us understand the goings on, a Ryan Reynolds who is happy to be a waiter just in order to be the coolest guy of the bunch, a Justin Long who wonders where his life is going, a Luis Guzmán who invented this ridiculous penis-flashing game to increase morale and a bunch of semi-known people who lend their talents to this film.The problem with the film is that it is purely character based, therefore we need to find the humor in the very personalities of the people shown. There is no action, no real moral to the story, just a bunch of people doing their thing. And even if Ryan Reynolds is his usual funny self, Justin Long is more of a lead than he is, a strange choice for a comedy considering his character is mostly tragic. Also, in order to "make it funny", you have the extra weird characters that lend humor, but subtract plausibility.There were some genuinely funny moments, but most of the time I was Waiting (sorry, couldn't help it) for something interesting to happen. I would say the movie did what it set out to do, but not very well.

It's shenanigans that the workers at Shenanigan's get up to. It's a suburban chain restaurant. Dan (David Koechner) is the manager. Monty (Ryan Reynolds) is a smart mouth server who takes trainee Mitch (John Francis Daley) under his wing. Dan offers Dean (Justin Long) the assistant manager position. Serena (Anna Faris) and Amy (Kaitlin Doubleday) are the hot waitresses. Then there are all the other workers played by Luis Guzmán, Chi McBride, Rob Benedict, Alanna Ubach, Vanessa Lengies, and Dane Cook.There are so many great comedic talents in this, and yet I can't find enough comedy in this. Writing/director Rob McKittrick is putting so much ridiculous comedy that some of it is bound to stick. Sure some of it sticks, but it's not enough. Maybe it's more funny to people who actually worked at a place like this. It's a scatter-shot comedy. It needs to concentrate on one single POV. I'd probably pick either Reynolds or Daley. Following so many characters kinda scatter the comedic effects.