The bitter, vengeful world of waiting tables gets the "Clerks" treatment in "Waiting...". A new employee (John Francis Daley, "Freaks and Geeks") gets trained at Shenanigan's, a banal theme restaurant where the bored employees play a game of flaunting their genitals. The staff includes a snarky waiter (Ryan Reynolds, "Van Wilder", "The Amityville Horror") who lusts after the underage hostess; a waiter suffering from crippling pee-shyness (Robert Patrick Benedict, "Threshold"); an oracular dishwasher (Chi McBride, "Roll Bounce"); and a conflicted waiter named Dean (Justin Long, "Dodgeball"), who's just been offered a promotion to assistant manager--a job that offers more money, but threatens to trap him at Shenanigan's for the rest of his life. "Waiting..." is a loose shamble of a movie--the only thing resembling a story is Dean's life crisis--but that's part of its charm. It's a tricky thing to depict tedium without being tedious, but "Waiting..." pulls it off; some jokes smack of forced sitcom writing, but most of the humor feels genuine, as if it came from writer/director Rob McKittrick's personal experience. A future cult film. Also featuring Anna Faris ("Lost in Translation"), Luis Guzman ("The Limey"), and rabidly adored stand-up comic Dane Cook as..a cook. "--Bret Fetzer"