Waitress!

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Jason E @RT21643951 Apr 8, 2026 Waitress! is such a blast that I created an RT account just to rate it. We only played it for garbage background noise, but ended up giving the film our full attention. The story lines are easy to disregard otherwise. It’s rare to hold my interest so well. The cast is clearly having fun, so the acting is enjoyable. Less talented thespians have mantels littered with Oscars. The writers and directors created an unbelievable world where the cast is entirely believable. Like many movies, there is a reward for viewers who allow themselves to embrace a strange world for a short time. Released in 1981 (before The Toxic Avenger, Police Squad!, Naked Gun), Waitress!, like everything, is of its time. If it seems dated, I'll lend you my imaginary time machine. Slapstick isn't my favorite and there’s not a Troma Army uniform in my closet; but I can appreciate irony, sarcasm, and absurdity for face value. Waitress! isn’t so bad that it's good, it's just good and that is so joyfully confusing. See more Jul 23, 2015 A film built around a series of rejected Naked Gun/Police Squad! jokes, intertwined with a series of plots that desperately try to go somewhere, but it just doesn't mesh together, as if I was watching three different movies for the price of one. See more Sep 12, 2014 Three young restaurant waitresses struggle to achieve greater aspirations. Mostly just a string of predictable and dated sight gags with little regard to plot development. Never really gets close to being funny and apparently a career killer too as none of the three female leads ever appeared in a credited role in the film industry again. Could be the worst in the Kaufman and Herz film catalog although there is some stiff competition for that title. See more Dec 25, 2011 Waitress! plays to 80s Troma's greatest strength..sheer stupidity. The jokes & antics are retarded but if you're a fan of the independent production company you're getting exactly what you came for. If you're not you've been warned. For the most part I am but more often then not I find a full movie a little too much to take. Waitress! bombards you w/ so much it's exhausting. It was about 50 minutes into this & I was finding that I had had my fill of awful jokes & insanity that I had to take a deep breath, sucked it up & trudged onward. Needless to say its low grade charms wear thin especially when you are trying to tie up plot end amongst the chaos. I found this was better done w/ Stuck on You because it's not so fevered but to be truthful there are a lot worse comedies from the era & it never hides what it truly is See more Apr 22, 2011 I suppose I'm predisposed to like any Lloyd Kaufman movie just because of how I feel about the guy himself. Even this one, with the levels of stupidity that it reaches, I find very charming. I don't believe I've ever seen so many jokes related to food and people dropping it. It is consistently silly all throughout and because there is a dumb joke every twenty seconds there is always something going on to entertain. See more Sep 6, 2010 A lot of bad jokes in this movie, and long ones too. There are a few good funny moments, but overall it's not a good movie. See more Read all reviews

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