WE DID NOT EXPECT ANY OF THIS TO HAPPEN!! | The Menu (2022) Movie First Reaction!

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37:55 So in the script, it just called for Margot to sit there and cry upon finding out Tyler brought her there knowing she was going to die. Anya herself said no, and that's how we got her just straight up losing her shit on him. Here's the full quote: "I have a thing about feminine rage. Which people think for some reason and this is no disrespect to any writer - I get a lot of, like, 'men doing really terrible things' and women sitting silently while one tear slowly falls. And I'm like, "Oh no no no no no. We get mad, and angry."

As someone who has watched a lot of violent, disturbing horror movies, the Tyler's Bullshit scene was absolutely brilliant to me. I was totally expecting them to boil him like a lobster in an oversized pot, or toss him in the oven or hang him up and skin him alive. But the fact that they played the mental game and simply humiliated him was SO much worse.

You guys are the only reactors I’ve seen who got the “no student loans” jab, haha. She comes from money and still was stealing from her boss. Julian was not having any of it with all their greedy asses 😂

“God damn do i love taco night” Bro rob said that with all the passion in his soul😂

One of my favorite things I saw in a YouTube comment was that Margot’s experience as a sex worker (someone who professionally reads people and serves what they want; not just what they say but what they WANT) is how she survived this movie, and I LOVE that take. If it were me, I’d have just seen the picture and been like, “Huh, how far he’s come from flipping burgers,” but Margot noticed the smile. She made the emotional connection. Now I appreciate her even more.

“I’m sorry you’re dying” kills me EVERY. TIME!

As someone who worked a few years as a cook, it probably wouldn’t be that hard to find 5-6 other cooks who’d want to destroy their restaurant, themselves & the clientele within🤣🤣🤣

You know, I think Chef let Margo/Erin go because she successfully “served” him- I.e., she made him feel happy about food again.

One of my favourite random facts about this movie is that Anya was the one who made the choice to have her seated with her back to the kitchen staff/chef, but that ended up resulting in neck pain since she basically spent months of filming with her head twisted towards the kitchen lol.

Ralph Fiennes, the actor for Chef, is the one who played the horrible and terrifying nazi officer Amon Göth in Schindler's list, and also the one who played Voldemort in the Harry Potter series. He's not as easily recognizable as Voldemort but his character Amon Göth scarred me so much that as soon as I saw Chef I was TERRIFIED. THAT's an actor for you. I'm sure the guy is really nice in real life, but I see him in a movie and grab my desk in fear.

This movie was made for the service workers and the murderous feelings it brings to be one. I hope y’all are doing as well as you can we’re all in it together

The way Margot got out was perfect: taking him back to his roots, when he served simple people simple food and they enjoyed... Asking how much, if she can take the rest to go... You know, the everyday talk with common folk, not some pretentious review full of lofty phrases made by uncultured rich people. I actually teared up seeing him smile.

40:11 I cannot even describe how loud I yelled when “Tyler’s bullshit” flashed across the screen. 😂😂

Another layer to Tyler's betrayal: He sincerely thought Chef was going to spare him. That's another reason why he spent all night kissing his ass.

An amuse bouche is basically a one bite taste (2 bites at most) to get your taste buds going and prepare for the meal ahead. :) It's a French phrase that means "mouth amuser". In a restaurant it's always free and chosen by the Chef. This one was actually rather large with all those compressed melon balls - closer to an appetizer.

their reaction to Erin leaving 10 dollars on the table just kills me lmao "what?? is she leaving like a 5 cent tip??" bro... how is that the first thing your mind goes to??

The thing I love about this movie is that the chef is doing this because of people who have stolen away his joy for cooking, yet everyone I've seen watching this film, including myself, has had negative things to say about the food that was being served in the film. I think that was deliberate. The film made us into those ppl in the film: the food critics, the non-cookers, the food naysayers, but in the end that was exactly what saved Margot/Erin, her ability to challenge his cooking & remind him of the joy of cooking. The film was brilliant to me. A new favorite

I love this movie. I've seen it three times in the last two weeks. As Chef says part way through the evening, those people represented the ruin of his life and profession. The critic, with her sycophantic partner who followed her around like a puppy, ruined lives with her opinions; the customers who ate mindlessly and couldn't even tell him what they'd eaten; the money guys who've reduced his food down to numbers; the elitist actor who ruined Chef's only free time, and who was ruining the art of his own profession by churning out bullshit, and his elitist assistant who went to an ivy league school on someone else's dime; and Tyler, the dilettante, who picked apart the art of cooking, taking the mystery out of it, knowing everything about it in theory but had no actual experience; and lastly Chef himself, who participated in all of it by ending up cooking food for people who could afford to eat his food but couldn't appreciate it. Did either of you see About a Boy (2002)? It was Nicholas Hoult's first movie when he was 11 and it's so good.

I begged my family for weeks to get them to watch this with me. I'd already seen it and wanted to see their reactions to it. I finally got them to watch it (reluctantly) yesterday, and they didn't really pay attention to it until The Mess. The looks on their faces were PRICELESS, and they stayed engrossed in the movie after that. Whoever wrote and directed this movie knew EXACTLY what they were doing, and I will forever appreciate them for it. Thank you!