Yes, for my first review, I'm gonna do a movie I just watched!
Well, here goes. And obviously, many spoilers ahead.
Restaurants. We've all been to them. Some of us poor souls have had to work at them. God bless those saintly people.
With Waiting, we get to see a single day in the lives of a whole Shenanigan's crew, from the beginning of their day, right up until the last customer leaves. And of course, the crew is made up of total misfits, half of whom might just need to be institutionalized, and the rest thrown in prison.
Let's start with the characters, in all their loony goodness:
The Hero: Dean, theApple Guy Waiter. (Justin Long)
"I'm a Mac, and I just mugged a PC."The everyman of this film, whose constant fret is what to do, being 22 and not even through college, rushed by his once friend/nemesis getting through college and being way more successful than him.
The Pretty Cool Guy: MontyMcAwesome. (Ryan Reynolds)
"I am soo NOT a pedophile, I just look like it. And act the part."If this show were Family Guy, he'd be Quagmire. All about the ego, being the most popular, getting laid, and always having funny quips, the smartass. And his girlfriend is 13 or 14, as determined by Sweets. (She's really 18.)
The FNG: Mitch"Sweets". (John Francis Daley)
I know this isn't what he looks like in the movie, but shut up, it's the same damn actor.
I...... He......Well, wh-.....Even thou-....Bu-....
People go to work. Then they work. Go home.
No, no no no. I'll do it right.
*Ahem*
So Dean, still living with his mother, becomes aware that his old friend Chet got his bachelor's degree, thus bringing his status in the world from "Barely out of high school" to "Barely out of college". Off to work!
Dan, the manager of this Shenanigan's franchise, brings in the FNG, Mitch, and thus assigns him to Monty for training. Que penis game. Yes, "penis game". Monty shows the poor sap around, repeatedly causing Mitch to blanch. And then it's time for a staff meeting! What now? Dan is trying to promote Dean to assistant manager! But Dean is torn, and defers his response till later.
It starts as a normal day at a boring restaurant, made full with a crazy *****, a psychologist-cum-dish boy, a couple of wigger busboys, Dane Cook, now a head chef, and some other whack jobs.
But wait, what's this? Oh no, here comes the dinner rush!
Also, Dane Cook gets his one good line in here:
Dan: We need to seize the day. Be enthusiastic.
Floyd (Dane Cook): [enthusiastically] Yeah! Carpe deez nuts! God I can't wait to quit this job!
Yes, the entire middle of this film is so empty that you could just watch the into for the characters, then skip to the 2/3rds mark with nothing lost. I still want that 30 minutes back, and I like this thing called a movie.
Come dinner rush, everything becomes chaos, with Monty's ex (Who also works in this greasy spoon) getting stuck with a table of bitches, Dean getting a table of businessmen, whom he impresses by beinga Mac able to remember five orders at once. He also gets a hick, who is, as all hicks are in movies, a dickwad, giving Dean a $1.91 tip on a $63 bill. Dean isn't happy, insults the hick, gets berated by dipshit manager. Manager yells at Dean, says he better choose between PROMOTIONS! and The Status Quo before his shift is up. Meanwhile , Monty getting a table of 16 year olds, all good looking, and he also gets the greatest old man in the world. In the world! *Gives mike back to Taylor Swift*
No, but this old geezer was probably one of the best characters in the movie, and had the second best scene in the movie, cause of the whole joke on the guy being senile.
And then comes the end of the day, and Chet's late arrival, causing Mac Guy to reflect on life, and deciding to turn down the promotion.
OFF TO THE PARTY!
Cause, y'know, there's always a party after work, every day, right?
At said party, the FNG Mitch, who has been cut off every time he tried to speak all day, loses his shit in the most spectacular way, resulting in the single greatest scene {a} in the movie, {b} that Dane Cook has ever appeared in, and {c} doesn't involve someone getting their tits out.
Because you must see Sweets go batshit all over the walls. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8CFVpys-Bk&NR=1]
And then he shows everyone his dick, and calls 'em faggots.
All in all, this movie is a piss poor excuse to string together dick jokes, sex jokes, piss jokes, any kind of humor that might come from a highschooler, old people jokes, racist undertones, and letting Mitch make fun of Downs Syndrome
If I had to rate this movie out of 5, I give it a 2. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
((P.S. I know this isn't a very good review, but it's 5:33 A.M., and I'm making excuses.))
Well, here goes. And obviously, many spoilers ahead.
Waiting...
Restaurants. We've all been to them. Some of us poor souls have had to work at them. God bless those saintly people.
With Waiting, we get to see a single day in the lives of a whole Shenanigan's crew, from the beginning of their day, right up until the last customer leaves. And of course, the crew is made up of total misfits, half of whom might just need to be institutionalized, and the rest thrown in prison.
Let's start with the characters, in all their loony goodness:
The Hero: Dean, the
"I'm a Mac, and I just mugged a PC."
The Pretty Cool Guy: Monty
"I am soo NOT a pedophile, I just look like it. And act the part."
The FNG: Mitch
I know this isn't what he looks like in the movie, but shut up, it's the same damn actor.
I...... He......Well, wh-.....Even thou-....Bu-....
The "Plot"
Simple. No, no no no. I'll do it right.
*Ahem*
So Dean, still living with his mother, becomes aware that his old friend Chet got his bachelor's degree, thus bringing his status in the world from "Barely out of high school" to "Barely out of college". Off to work!
Dan, the manager of this Shenanigan's franchise, brings in the FNG, Mitch, and thus assigns him to Monty for training. Que penis game. Yes, "penis game". Monty shows the poor sap around, repeatedly causing Mitch to blanch. And then it's time for a staff meeting! What now? Dan is trying to promote Dean to assistant manager! But Dean is torn, and defers his response till later.
It starts as a normal day at a boring restaurant, made full with a crazy *****, a psychologist-cum-dish boy, a couple of wigger busboys, Dane Cook, now a head chef, and some other whack jobs.
But wait, what's this? Oh no, here comes the dinner rush!
Also, Dane Cook gets his one good line in here:
Dan: We need to seize the day. Be enthusiastic.
Floyd (Dane Cook): [enthusiastically] Yeah! Carpe deez nuts! God I can't wait to quit this job!
Yes, the entire middle of this film is so empty that you could just watch the into for the characters, then skip to the 2/3rds mark with nothing lost. I still want that 30 minutes back, and I like this thing called a movie.
Come dinner rush, everything becomes chaos, with Monty's ex (Who also works in this greasy spoon) getting stuck with a table of bitches, Dean getting a table of businessmen, whom he impresses by being
No, but this old geezer was probably one of the best characters in the movie, and had the second best scene in the movie, cause of the whole joke on the guy being senile.
And then comes the end of the day, and Chet's late arrival, causing Mac Guy to reflect on life, and deciding to turn down the promotion.
OFF TO THE PARTY!
At said party, the FNG Mitch, who has been cut off every time he tried to speak all day, loses his shit in the most spectacular way, resulting in the single greatest scene {a} in the movie, {b} that Dane Cook has ever appeared in, and {c} doesn't involve someone getting their tits out.
Because you must see Sweets go batshit all over the walls. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8CFVpys-Bk&NR=1]
And then he shows everyone his dick, and calls 'em faggots.
All in all, this movie is a piss poor excuse to string together dick jokes, sex jokes, piss jokes, any kind of humor that might come from a highschooler, old people jokes, racist undertones, and letting Mitch make fun of Downs Syndrome
If I had to rate this movie out of 5, I give it a 2. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
((P.S. I know this isn't a very good review, but it's 5:33 A.M., and I'm making excuses.))