Fresh
The funniest scene is also the saddest: The kitchen crew, having cleaned up, watching the clock like New Year's, goes nuts when a couple is seated a minute before closing. This is pain.
Darren Reidy, Village Voice
Waiting...
What happens in the kitchen ends up on the plate.
2005 · 1h 34m · R
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Rob McKittrick
Overview
Employees at a Bennigan's-like restaurant (called, creatively enough, Shenanigan's), kill time before their real lives get started. But while they wait, they'll have to deal with picky customers who want their steak cooked to order and enthusiastic managers who want to build the perfect wait staff. Luckily, these employees have effective revenge tactics.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
29%
Tomatometer
Rotten
You can do gross-out stuff and be funny, but it has to have some decent dialogue and characters.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
As in waiting for it to be over.
Mike Clark, USA Today
Rotten
A puerile excuse for humour, perfectly described by one of the characters, in a rare moment of insight, as 'an exercise in retarded homophobic futility.'
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Fresh
McKittrick's relentless vulgarity is wearing, but he's a strong visualist who keeps his shoestring-budget film looking fresh.
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
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