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

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 23, 2023

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...

| Original Score: F | Apr 28, 2020

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

| Apr 28, 2020

A repellent American comedy...

| Apr 28, 2020

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

| Apr 28, 2020

...a spare premise that's utilized to surprisingly positive effect...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 19, 2011

An undercooked, overdone raunchy comedy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 18, 2010

It made me laugh. Out loud, a lot, and wildly, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

| Apr 29, 2009

Luis Guzman is especially funny as a sex-crazed head cook obsessed with a staff game that becomes a centerpiece of the film's humor.

| Original Score: C | Apr 19, 2009

Some jokes hit their mark, but mostly in "Waiting%u2026," what you're really waiting for is inspiration.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 26, 2007

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

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 3, 2006

For what's essentially a raucous, gross-out comedy, this is a surprisingly tame film.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 3, 2006

Trying to do for steakhouses what Caddyshack did for golf courses, this meager movie aims to make the world of baked potatoes and porterhouses a haven for memorable profanity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 3, 2006

You'd have more fun actually working in a restaurant. Probably.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 3, 2006

Despite its flaws, it really is a funny, witty, and suprisingly charming slob comedy

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2006

McKittrick neglects to realize that his target audience (males, ages 18-25) presumably aren't interested in seeing or hearing about the male genitalia at any time...

| Feb 7, 2006

We have to watch [the cast] struggle and squirm just to make each scene not as horrible as the last.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 30, 2006

For anyone who has ever worked in the restaurant industry, Waiting may just be the funniest movie you've ever seen. And for those who haven't, it's probably one of the dumbest films you're likely to see all year.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Subplots include a running gag where the guys all compete at flashing their dicks. You know it's a 21st century movie because the characters are self-conscious about their sexism and homophobia.

| Dec 2, 2005

A silly, awkward, but sometimes very funny movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 10, 2005