It is a comedy about the people working in the restaurants and the
varity of customers they meet day to day.
The entire movie is practically set inside a restaurant chain named
Shenanigan's. Justin Long plays Dean who has a dead end job as a waiter
at Shenanigan's. Even though he had been working there for a few years,
he gets upset one day when he comes to know that Chett, one of his high
school classmates is having a decent job with great prospects as an
electrical engineer.
Dean has a friend Monty (Ryan Reynolds) who works at the same restaurant.
But Monty is a happy go lucky guy who is in charge of training Mitch
(John Francis), a shy new employee. As the man in charge of training
the new guy, Monty feels very important, and he is good with the girls
working there and enjoys seducing every female staff and ends up going
to bed with them.
The movie typically covers a working day at Shenanigan's, the interactions
between the employees as well the problems with difficult customers
and the way vindictive employees act. If a customer gives a hard time
to a waiter, the waiter in turn makes sure that the food for that customer
is tampered with, in a despicable way.
Director
Rob McKittrick narrates a tale of what goes on behind the scenes in
a typical restaurant. Even though there is no real storyline, he does
a decent job in juggling a whole bunch of characters in the film. He
touches different aspects like frustrated restaurant employees, nasty
customers, relationships as well as sex. He is trying to deliver a message
to the public, "If you give a hard time to the people serving you food,
especially at a restaurant, watch out, your food could be tainted".
Movie presents a lot of known stars like Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris,
Luis Guzman and Chi McBride. But they are all practically under utilized
and hence a waste. None of them get a chance to develop a decent role
in the film.
The movie is filled with profanity, crude language, sexual humor as
well as graphic nudity. Director some what succeeds in showing the lack
of sanitary cleanliness as well as the revengeful attitude of the employees
towards tough customers in a restaurant. The movie doesn't have much
of entertainment value especially for adults. This is one of the worst movies
of the year.
We rate this movie BELOW AVERAGE.