Waiting...

Imagine if Van Wilder, the super cool, 7 year college student from the National Lampoon's movie named after his name, had not gone to college after high school. Imagine that he went on to work to a chain of restaurants called Shenanigan's, and that he's been there for a long time too. That's writer/director's Rob McKittrick Waiting..., only this is a not a National Lampoon's movie, and the Ryan Reynolds character is not called Van Wilder but Monty.

The movie has no real plot, is just a juncture of characters, many characters, and though most of them have very little to do, there are 4 or 5 that work well and keep our attention.
As I mentioned before there's Monty, who been working at Shenanigan's for years, and has no intention to move on or grow up. He has no interest in going up the ladder in the company either. He's happy just by waiting tables, playing games with the staff, and getting drunk and laid with underage girls he meets during the day at the restaurant.
The movie takes all on one day, in which Monty is put in charge of Mitch (Freaks & Geeks' John Francis Daley), the shy new guy, and so he shows him how the restaurant works and introduces him to the entire staff.

Monty's best friend is Dean (played by Justin Long), a 22 year old who graduated from high school 4 years ago and has done a few classes at the community college but nothing else. His story is the closest we have to a plot. He goes to have lunch with his mom one day and she informs him that his old high school friend Chett has graduated from college and is now an electric engineer, getting lots of money and doing great in his life. Dean is devastated, and has second thoughts about working at Shenanigan's, but right after that his manager Dan (played by David Koechner, Anchorman's Champ Kind) offers him the Assistant Manager position, though Dean sees it less as a good opportunity and more as a way to be living this dead end life forever, like Dan.
Dan is of course older than all his staff, so he usually gets marginalized and he's never invited to the parties. But he shares one thing with Monty though, and that is his attraction for Natasha (played by Vanessa Lengies), the underage hostess.

Mitch meets head chef Raddimus (played by Luis Guzman), who teaches him the Penis-Showing Game, which was invented years ago when the restaurant had problems, specially between the employees and their morale, so the game got everybody happy competing with each other.
It works just like it sounds, you have to get other coworkers to look at your penis (it has to be a surprise) and if they do you get to kick them in the ass. There are many positions to choose from, The Goat being the best one, and as better the position is, you get to kick the other person more times in the ass. I thought I was going to get tired of it easily when they first introduced the game in the movie, but even though they talk and talk about it, and play it a lot, I found it funny, and I didn't get tired of it.

Of course then the MegaBush appeared and that was really disturbing. And there are a few more disturbing scenes, though if you have worked in a restaurant like that you already know about it. Don't mess with the waiting staff is a rule that must not be broken unless you want them to spit on your food. And that's the best thing you can wish, because they do worse. There's also the 5 second rule about food dropped on the floor, a classic, and a lot more stuff that probably happens in real life, but we really don't want to know about.

The rest of the staff are Serena (played by Anna Faris) who used to be Monty's girlfriend. She has little to do though. Then there's Chi McBride's Bishop, the dishwasher who gives advise about everything and to everybody. Kaitlin Doubleday plays Amy, Dean's girlfriend who always has trouble with her tables and gets no tips. Also Patrick Benedit's Calvin, who can't pee in the restaurant's restroom after a guy stared at his penis while he was peeing some time ago. He can't do it anymore now and has to wait to get home to do it. Weird enough, he's the Penis-Showing Game champion. His story is kind of funny, but I did get tired of it towards the end. Alanna Ubach plays Naomi, the super bitch waitress who's always mad and hates her clients, but she always shows them the pretty smile.
There's also Emmanuelle Chriqui's Tyla, the lesbian bartender; Dane Cook's Floyd, the violent cook; and finally the busboys T-Dog, played by Max Kasch, and Nick, played by
Andy Milonakis, he of the Andy Milonakis' Show from MTV. He has a few funny scenes and then the ending credits are all his and it's all pretty good.

The movie has a very adult language all over the place, but always in comedic situations.
There are a few really funny situations, specially when Monty visits his mom (played by Just Shoot Me's Wendie Malick) one night. She attacks his way of life, and hopes he doesn't get any underage girls pregnant and that he uses protection, to which Monty replies stuff like "that's way I stick to anal" or "don't worry, I pull out".
There's more at the restaurant, like a discussion between Monty and Serena that starts with "haven't I been inside you?". And there's lots of stuff like that. There is no nudity at all in the movie, which I found weird considering the huge amount of hot girls in the cast and the language that goes on during the movie, and it's Rated R so why don't through some nudity in there. Weird.

Overall, the movie feels like a long pilot for a HBO sitcom that could very good, though after a few episodes would be too repetitive unless they get some kind of story going on.
Still, Waiting... is funny, not groundbreaking like American Pie or funny like Van Wilder but very good anyway.