A waiter for four years since high school, Dean has never questioned his job at Shenanigan's. But when he learns that Chett, a high school classmate, now has a lucrative career in electrical engineering, he's thrown into turmoil about his dead-end life. Dean's friend Monty is in exactly the same boat, but he couldn't care less. More concerned with partying, Monty is put in charge of training Mitch, a shy new employee. Over the course of one chaotic shift, Mitch gets to know the rest of Shenanigan's quirky staff: Monty's tough-talking ex-girlfriend, Serena, Shenanigan's over-zealous manager, Dan, and head cook Raddimus, who's obsessed with a senseless staff-wide competition known only as "The Game."

Rude, crude and obscene should be the name of the game and also the name of the movie but that actually doesn’t take away from the movie. The movie is proud of how obscene it is, takes joy in being crude and is happy to slap you in the face with some rudeness and that’s what makes the movie work. It’s the fact that is so over the top and that not only does it not care that it is so over the top, it takes pride it going further then you would ever want it to go. The most important line in the movie is “You should never mess with someone who is handling your food.” They hate you, most likely a lot of the people who wait and serve you hate you, and yes I know this from first hand experience and all it will take is you being an ass for them to take revenge on you. I doubt that many restaurants would do some of the things Shenanigan’s staff gets away with but the point is that to some extent some or most of them at some point somewhere has taken their revenge on their customers. The hazing of the new guy is another thing I know for a fact to happen in the food industry again not to the extent the movie takes it to but just far enough that many a poor bus boy have cried themselves to sleep a time or two. The movie is funny, it is over the top, it is outright gross at times and it teaches a lesson, don’t mess with the people handling your food.

Ryan Reynolds is fast becoming one of my favorite actors in Hollywood. He just as an appeal, a charisma and funny charm perfect for gross out comedies or even the comic relief in action movies. He takes over whatever movie he is in and makes it better for just being in it. But then again the entire cast was hilarious in the movie, they each had their quirks and each added their own craziness to the film. Whether it was Luis Guzman obsessed with a perverse game, or the waitress that literally despises and hates you with every ounce of her being, each of the other actors added to the movie in their own way. It was like a stew or an ensemble cast, it wasn’t one actor or actress that made the movie it was all of them stewed to perfection. Granted this is lowbrow humor and many might be offended but I think most people will be able to laugh at the humor even if grossed out at times especially if you have ever worked in the food industry. This will probably be the next cult gross out movie of the new generation in fact it like a modern day Clerks only now they get to play with what you are about to eat, now try and digest that.
3.5 stars out of 5