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26 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Dallas ObserverLuke Y. ThompsonDallas ObserverLuke Y. ThompsonMany of the dilemmas that are established never pay off, and there is no clear protagonist or antagonist. To make matters even murkier, the movie is poorly shot in visually uninteresting locations with constant soft focus. That said, it's also damn funny.
- 50L.A. WeeklyL.A. WeeklyMcKittrick cites "Dazed and Confused" as well as "Clerks" as influences, yet he lacks the raw edge of early Smith and the existential drift of Linklater. And if side-splitting laughter is what you crave, Waiting . . . will leave you hungry for a slice of American Pie.
- 42Entertainment WeeklyEntertainment WeeklyWith its sweet stupidity and shoddy production values, Waiting... knowingly evokes bad '80s R-rated comedies, but the differences are telling.
- 40The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasThere'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.
- 40VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyThe wait for laughs lasts the entire length of Waiting ..., first feature from writer-director Rob McKittrick that aims to be a "Clerks"-type comedy set in a chain restaurant but ends up somewhere below a "Porky's" sequel.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenDoesn't serve up enough laughs to build a theatrical following but could find life on video as a takeout item.
- 38Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThere must be humor here somewhere.
- 25New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThis warmed-over slop feels as if it's been congealing for twice that long.
- 25Chicago TribuneAllison BenediktChicago TribuneAllison BenediktCould have been a funny movie. There are a few truths about food-service that McKittrick gets right but doesn't fully exploit.
- 0PremierePremiereWaiting is, at its root, a heaping handful of almost-funny ideas cobbled together without much skill for shaping a story. The result is that one in five provokes a smile, while the other four make the viewers slightly sick that they now have to remember what they just saw.