Anyone reading this review is sufficiently familiar with the internet to understand the precision with which internet search engines can target potential customers. And the movie industry is well-aware of the built in audiences for its products: to wit, the success of the "Harry Potter," "Twilight," and "Lord of the Rings" franchises demonstrate the viability of the formula: Movie+cultural familiarity=An audience. The only variable is; is the culturally familiar audience large enough to make a movie profitable? By this formula, "Waiting" is enough of a sure thing to answer another question: Why was this movie commercially successful? "Waiting" is simultaneously an accurate (if, due to being overly-condensed, unrealistic) depiction of the life of food-service employees and a "warning shot" to the customers of this industry (aka: Everyone else). And while it succeeds at both of these, it fails to be funny, which I believe is its ultimate goal. Instead it focuses on food-service workers as under-achieving, low-brow and resentful people who should be feared for their for their emotional dysfunction and their capacity/position to appropriately handle the anger and frustration that are part of every work situation.
"Waiting" lacks wit, which I define as intelligent, insightful humor. It seeks to be a Kevin Smith film ("Clerks") but lacks the intelligence and wisdom of Kevin Smith. "Waiting" is gross and vulgar, even containing physical archetypes of Jay and Silent Bob, but is absent the self-awareness of Smith's characters.
"Waiting" serves adequately to warn restaurant guests that they are interacting with people. But that is not funny.
"Waiting" lacks wit, which I define as intelligent, insightful humor. It seeks to be a Kevin Smith film ("Clerks") but lacks the intelligence and wisdom of Kevin Smith. "Waiting" is gross and vulgar, even containing physical archetypes of Jay and Silent Bob, but is absent the self-awareness of Smith's characters.
"Waiting" serves adequately to warn restaurant guests that they are interacting with people. But that is not funny.