Waiting (2005) Critic Reviews

Teenage boys will be in heaven. All others: Check, please.Read the full review

There must be humor here somewhere.Read the full review

With its sweet stupidity and shoddy production values, Waiting... knowingly evokes bad '80s R-rated comedies, but the differences are telling.Read the full review

The filmmaker captures a certain exaggerated verisimilitude, but the comedy is surprisingly flat. The cast sells the occasional one-liner, but a Reynolds smirk can take you only so far.Read the full review

Lots of people will leave screenings of this movie in disgust -- and laughter is the last thing they will hear on the way out.Read the full review

Doesn't serve up enough laughs to build a theatrical following but could find life on video as a takeout item.Read the full review

Putrid comic stew.Read the full review

There's real potential in the premise of young, unmotivated screw-ups logging time at a dead-end restaurant job--a hash-slinging "Office Space," basically--but first-time writer-director Rob McKittrick makes it look like a homemade sitcom laced with profanity.Read the full review

Geared to 16-year-olds who can't name the governor of their state, this movie ought to be closed down by the health department.Read the full review