"You're the coolest guy at ShenaniganZ - that's like being the smartest kid with Down's syndrome."
If you find that funny, then this ugly-minded, cretinous and pathetically unoriginal garbage will be just your cup of spat-in tea.
The fun never starts as new recruit Mitch endures his first shift at TGI-style restaurant ShenaniganZ.
His mentor is the cool-but-oddly-not Monty (Reynolds, appearing to be either constipated or recovering from electro-shock therapy), who likes young girls, waxing nonsensical and making yawn-out-loud quips.
"Every time I look at you, I wish I was a lesbian," he tells bargirl Tyla. Her devastatingly predictable riposte? "Every time I look at you, I'm glad I am a lesbian." She's a lesbian, geddit?!
The ShenaniganZ payroll is full of equally unamusing stereotypes.
Take Monty's disillusioned friend Dean (Long – the one who had his eyes plucked out in Jeepers Creepers but sadly not before he read this script). He's offered the post of assistant manager but thinks he could do better for himself. You don't say.
Among the female staff, we have the dim one, the sassy one, the nice one, the under-age one, and the angry one who swears at everyone. Not forgetting the lesbian one. Haha, lesbians...
There are also two white busboys who act black and Luis Guzman as a horny chef who’s mad for the genital-exposing game and - get this - drops steaks on the floor... on purpose!
Writer-director Rob McKittrick probably thinks that he has combined the gross-out antics of American Pie with the working-stiff cynicism of Clerks. But they come under the heading 'comedy'. Look it up, Rob.
I'm feeling generous, so here's another tip for the talentless Mr McKittrick: never go near a word processor or a movie camera again. Ever.
Elliott Noble
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