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		List Price: $19.99		Label: Lions Gate Salesrank: 12550 Released: July 17, 2007
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		MPAA Rating: Unrated Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:
Always remember the cardinal rule of eating out: Never mess with people who handle your food! Ryan Reynolds (VAN WILDER), Anna Farris (the SCARY MOVIE series) and Justin Long (DODGEBALL: A TRUE UNDERDOG STORY) star in this hilarious comedy about the band of mischievous waiters, waitresses and cooks just waiting to show guests how extraordinary the service at ShenaniganZ restaurant can be.

Description of Waiting... (Unrated and Raw) [Blu-ray]:
The bitter, vengeful world of waiting tables gets the Clerks treatment in Waiting.... A new employee (John Francis Daley, Freaks and Geeks) gets trained at Shenanigan's, a banal theme restaurant where the bored employees play a game of flaunting their genitals. The staff includes a snarky waiter (Ryan Reynolds, Van Wilder, The Amityville Horror) who lusts after the underage hostess; a waiter suffering from crippling pee-shyness (Robert Patrick Benedict, Threshold); an oracular dishwasher (Chi McBride, Roll Bounce); and a conflicted waiter named Dean (Justin Long, Dodgeball), who's just been offered a promotion to assistant manager--a job that offers more money, but threatens to trap him at Shenanigan's for the rest of his life. Waiting... is a loose shamble of a movie--the only thing resembling a story is Dean's life crisis--but that's part of its charm. It's a tricky thing to depict tedium without being tedious, but Waiting... pulls it off; some jokes smack of forced sitcom writing, but most of the humor feels genuine, as if it came from writer/director Rob McKittrick's personal experience. A future cult film. Also featuring Anna Faris (Lost in Translation), Luis Guzman (The Limey), and rabidly adored stand-up comic Dane Cook as..a cook. --Bret Fetzer

Waiting... (Unrated and Raw) [Blu-ray] Reviews:
Waiting on DVD
2009-10-16 - Excellent quality product. Got it in a timely manner. FUNNY movie too, if you haven't seen it.

Item arrived promptly and in the condition as described.
2009-09-04 - The item arrived promptly after I ordered it and it arrived in the condition in which it was described.

A well-done review, small portion, made to order
2009-07-24 - For what it is, Waiting is a perfect movie. It's outlandish comedy. Are there obnoxious people in it? Of course, but there are obnoxious people in real life, and it feels good to laugh at them once in a while and maybe see a little of yourself in an obnoxious character. Could it be more clever? Of course, but in a movie like this, too much cleverness would be too clever by half. For those who would want or expect more cleverness, have you never acted ridiculously silly and thoroughly enjoyed yourself? How would it be if, after your silly jag, some nitwit says, in all seriousness, that you could have been more clever? Neither is this film "formulaic." The story is structured around employees at a restaurant, so yes, it dishes out jokes you would expect. But then, a concert pianist is formulaic for performing the standard repertoire.

Like any good "teen angst" movie, this one has something to say to "grown-ups" and parents as well. It's just that everything is exaggerated to the point of absurdity, which makes it "safer," perhaps, for us to think about the underlying messages. Oh yes, there are messages in this story, even if it doesn't take itself too seriously. I recommend this movie, as well as American Pie, which happens to be my favorite teen angst movie.



Ryan Reynolds is absolutely hilarious!!!
2009-07-05 - This movie caught me by complete surprise. I had seen Reynolds in some other parts (Blade 3, Amityville remake) and found him pretty funny and interesting. I could not stop laughing half way through the movie. I went out and bought to watch again. A must see for any Reynolds fan. I will never make my waiter/waitress angry again! The story is great and the supporting cast is very good also.

A Celebration of the Obnoxious
2009-04-13 - Obnoxious people doing obnoxious things. There, that's WAITING. Featuring a day in the life of the restaurant Shenanigan's (a fictitious chain based on any number of eateries we all know and love), the viewer is witness to the antics of its screwball staff as they interact with one another--but even more importantly, with the restaurant's unsuspecting patrons. Accordingly we get the typical sophomoric hijinks: From scratching dandruff onto a steak sent back for more cooking, to a nonsensical initiation ritual for new employees. But hey, some of it's funny, some of it's lame--all of it's forgettable.

An obnoxious film should have an obnoxious cast, and here WAITING doesn't disappoint. Ryan Reynolds as a snooty waiter (who gets the film's best line: "Never [tick] off the people handling your food.") is as good as obnoxious gets. Other cast members include Luiz Guzman, John Francis Daley, Dane Cook, and David Koechner. Come on, that's like the Obnoxious Hall of Fame. Disappointments include Anna Faris, who doesn't get to show off her considerable comedic talents, and Justin Long, who needs to quit with the pity party and grow a pair. And if he did, the cooks in WAITING would no doubt be serving them at the buffet. Bon appetit.
--D. Mikels, Author, Walk-On