2K Replay: WAITING...

 by Adam Riske

Nominated for zero awards. Winner of zero awards.

• Best Scene/Moment: Mitch (John Francis Daley) telling off all of the other characters at the end of the movie is very satisfying because they all seem like the worst.

• Best Song (tie): “Callin’ Out” by Lyrics Born and “Here in Your Bedroom” by Goldfinger.

• Best Merch: A “Waiting the movie NEVER USED LUNCH BOX…” for $55.00. This is such a weird promotional item. If you were a fan of the movie in 2005, you were probably too old to use a lunchbox (I apologize in advance if teens and adults use lunchboxes and I’m just not aware of it) and Waiting… is about a casual dine-in restaurant so what’s that got to do with lunchboxes?

• Director Grade: Waiting… was directed by Rob McKittrick.
Great Movies: N/A
Good Movies: N/A
OK Movies: N/A
Bad Movies: Waiting…
Overall Grade: C-

• Double It with This 2005 Movie: Just Friends

• Year 2005 Movies to Trailer Before Them: The Dukes of Hazzard, The Longest Yard, The Ringer

• Never Talk to Strangers or Waiting…? Never Talk to Strangers

• Mall Movie? It’s a comedy about slackers working in a chain restaurant so absolutely this is a mall movie.

• Only in 2005: Andy Milonakis.

• Scene Stealer (tie): Rob Benedict and Vanessa Lengies.

• I Miss: Anna Faris. She hasn’t been on-screen much lately.

• I Don’t Miss: Nick and T-Dog.

• 2005 Crush (tie): Vanessa Lengies and Wendie Malick.

• 2025 Crush (tie): Vanessa Lengies and Wendie Malick.

• What I Thought in 2005: I don’t remember much about Waiting… but I think I enjoyed it when I saw it on DVD back in the day.

• What I Think in 2025: Yeah, this didn’t really work for me. A lot of the humor hasn’t aged well, and Ryan Reynolds’s shtick was more enjoyable twenty years ago before he became insufferable. Waiting… worked best for me as a time capsule reminder of how much crude frat boy comedies ruled cinema back in the early to mid-2000s.