Introduction:
After graduating from high school, Dean (Justin? Shi Lang) has been working as a waiter in the "prank" chain barbecue shop, and his diligent and skilled enthusiastic service has won unanimous praise from new and old customers. In a blink of an eye, four years later, Dean never felt anything wrong with his work, until he learned that his high school classmate Chet had made an enviable degree in electrical engineering through unremitting efforts, and Dean's heart began to fluctuate. He feels that the waiter's work has no sense of accomplishment, and his career has reached a dead end, and he will not have much promise in the future. And colleague and friend Monty (Ryan? Reynolds) is puzzled by Dean's unbalanced psychology. Monty believes that people should accept the reality and love each other.
Monty, in full swing, accepted a new task to train the new waiter Mitt (John? Francis? Dali), just like the strange name of the restaurant, Mitt made countless jokes during the job trial, and at the same time gradually got to know other colleagues with full personality in the restaurant: Monty's fast-talking ex-girlfriend Serena (Anna? Faris), over-enthusiastic manager Dan (David? Kitchener), Chef Radmies (Lewis? Guzman) ... With terrible tips, misinformed menus and ingredients that nobody knows, the work in the bar is often a mess. Everything is like sudden youth, with loss, laughter and madness, and all kinds of life.
Film review:
Spit on the returned meat, wipe on some inexplicable body fluids, sprinkle with dandruff and stir, and then take it back to the original plate. The steak was deliberately placed on the kitchen floor to add some special flavor. After watching these scenes in the film, you will definitely feel queasy. You can't help but think of the scene where the hero ate semen and fried eggs in the Korean campus comedy "Sex is Empty". Noisy comedies about youth always use sex jokes and some disgusting gimmicks as special condiments. Let the old adage "Eating is also sexual" be unified in physics. The less taboo the dialogue in the film is, the less unscrupulous it is, and the more it conforms to the concept and cultural appetite of young people. Director Rob? McKitterick is a rookie, but he definitely knows it.
Some comments show that Hollywood in 2005 was a year of revival of sex comedies. Although the summer box office is generally declining, the 200 million box office of Wedding Cocktail and the 654.38 billion box office of Forty-year-old Virgin are not inferior even when they stand in front of commercial blockbusters in the same period. Although "Halla Serve" is difficult to reach the height of the above two films in terms of creativity, production scale and even future box office, it is also difficult to reach the height of the above two films.
Behind-the-scenes Story: Seven Years of Waiting
Lazy waiters, kitchen stoves with worrying sanitary conditions, and sexual jokes that don't jump on each other's faces, Hello Serving gives us a unique behind-the-scenes taste of the catering industry. As a director and screenwriter, Rob? McKitterick has a say in everything in the film. Working in a similar barbecue restaurant in Orlando for several years has given Rob a lot of subtle psychological knowledge about waiters and customers, which is the same as the lost Dean in the film. However, Rob studied university courses through part-time jobs and part-time studies, determined to change his future destiny, and the ups and downs of being a waiter were written into his script.
Rob admits that his idol is Kevin, a legend in the American independent film industry. Smith, 1994, Kevin pooled $27,000, used 16mm black-and-white film in the convenience store where he worked for five years, and made the hilarious comedy Crazy Shop Assistant, which made any Hollywood comedy feel ashamed. Rob made up his mind to keep up with Kevin and hoped to put Hello Serve on the screen with a lower budget. He took advantage of his work to sit at the dinner table. Received about $20,000 in funding. Just as Rob was about to start the film, there was good news from Hollywood. Universal Pictures is interested in investing in filming. The script changed hands between several companies for seven years. Finally, Lionsgate's investment made Hello Serve finally come out.