REVIEWED - WAITING . . .: How lowbrow can movies go? Waiting . . . is a rambling comedy that is so crude, vulgar and unfunny that the Scary Movie franchise appears sophisticated by comparison. It's set at a branch of ShenaniganZ, a chain restaurant, where the male staff seem stranded in a state of arrested adolescence.

Dean (Justin Long) has been working there for four years and finally questions what he is and isn't doing when he meets a former classmate who now has a lucrative career. Monty (Ryan Reynolds) is so concerned with his macho image and notching up sexual conquests that he has deceived himself about the dead-end nature of his job.

For all their heterosexual posturing, the male employees appear obsessed with playing a juvenile game whereby they expose their genitals to each other and declare whoever happens to be watching as "a fag". Another example of the puerile attempts at humour comes when Monty tells an older customer: "Alzheimer's can't be all bad. You get to meet new people every day." The most disgusting scenes happen in the kitchen, when unspeakable things are done to food sent back by a dissatisfied customer or ordered by a late arrival before closing time.

It would be helpful if cinemas playing this dire movie provided sick bags.