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If you are looking for the perfect fall comedy, I’m afraid Waiting is going to leave you just that, waiting. This comedy features an unending string of jokes about male genitals and having sex with minors, but in Waiting, many jokes lead to hardly any laughs.

The bright spots of the movie are Ryan Reynolds (Monty) and Dane Cook (Floyd). Reynolds continues to be one of the funniest character actors in Hollywood. He single handedly made Blade: Trinity bearable to watch, and was the sole reason Van Wilder was actually funny. However, as funny as Reynolds can be, most of Waiting he is just not that funny. And unfortunately, as I said, this is one of the bright spots of the films.

Cook’s role was very limited, but he has proven he is one of the best current stand up comedians, and he leaves no disappointment in the film Waiting. From his impersonations to his one-liners, Cook constantly makes you laugh, proving that perhaps he should have had the lead role.

In the end, Waiting is a movie that wants to tell twenty-somethings how to break out of the monotony of life, to break free from the every day grind that drags us down and leaves us feeling worthless. The problem is, the answers they give are ridiculous, and where Office Space found solutions that were ridiculous, at least they were funny (burning your office building down, stealing staplers, and beating copier machines). Waiting, gives other options, like flashing male genitals at one another, sleeping with minors, and getting drunk.

The moral premise of the movie is clearly to do what makes you happy, to ‘find your own penis-showing game’ (to quote the words of Chi McBride who quotes Bishop). This game that the waiters at Shenanigaz (the restaurant the movie takes place in) led to better work enjoyment, and that, says Bishop is the thing one should chase after.

The problem is no one in this movie really appears happy. They all hate their job and in the end drink it away each night. Although Waiting tries to present moral lessons, the movie is just so unfunny that by the time those lessons are taught, you just want to leave the movie theater because most characters are just too annoying, namely the two high school characters who do nothing but smoke weed and drop the F word. Now, this can be funny, but not so here.

If you really want to go see a good comedy about the workplace and the redundancy of day to day activities, and have decided that Waiting is your movie, then I have advice. Take a drive down to your local Blockbuster, and rent Office Space.