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The Wash (2001)

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Average Rating: 2.9/10
Reviews Counted: 50
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 46

Sloppily-made, amateurish, and scarce on laughs, The Wash can't compare to Richard Pryor's 1976 Car Wash.

6

Average Rating: 2.7/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 15

Sloppily-made, amateurish, and scarce on laughs, The Wash can't compare to Richard Pryor's 1976 Car Wash.

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Average Rating: 3.3/5
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Movie Info

This throwback to the frolicsome comedies of the 1970s is from writer/director D.J. Pooh, creator of Friday (1995) and 3 Strikes (2000). Dr. Dre stars as Sean, who's financially strapped and on the verge of losing his home and his car until his roommate Dee Loc Snoop Dogg suggests he join him as an employee at the local car wash. Tensions mount between the pals when the establishment's eccentric owner Mr. Washington (George Wallace) promotes the more mature and responsible Sean over Dee Loc, and

R, 1 hr. 36 min.

Comedy

D.J. Pooh

Mar 12, 2002

$9.8M

Lions Gate Films

Cast

All Critics (56) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (47) | DVD (10)

Two roommates start to antagonize each other after one becomes the other's superior at an LA car wash, and the conflict is played out with grittiness and flippancy.

March 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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Snoop, Dre and their buddies take it all in stride -- if they were any more laid-back, they'd be napping in their trailers.

March 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Associated Press | Comment
Associated Press
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There's precious little to listen to, laugh at or ogle.

January 10, 2002 Comment
Washington Post
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More of a missed opportunity than a movie.

November 30, 2001 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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A sloppy, harebrained movie, which looks like it was made on a fraction of the budget of one of their videos.

November 30, 2001 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
Globe and Mail
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So ramshackle it's nearly enough to make you forget how tossed-together the 1976 Car Wash was.

November 21, 2001 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
Entertainment Weekly
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Some energetic performances from the cast may make this accessible to a wider audience.

December 30, 2006 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

The lame, underdeveloped jokes far outweigh the fresh ones, the women are all chirpy airheads, and the whole thing hangs on a feeble storyline.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Waterlogged from start to finish

March 31, 2005 Comment
Film Threat

I was wishing I was sitting through Bones a second time.

May 26, 2004 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

[A] crude and boring movie.

August 20, 2002 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]

You've really got to wonder sometimes how talented people end up in hopeless misfires like this film.

August 8, 2002 Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | Comment
Shadows on the Wall

A 100% feeble comedy that exposes the dire acting abilities of two otherwise well respected hip-hop artists.

August 5, 2002 Full Review Source: BBC | Comment

a plotless, mostly humorless time-killer that exists primarily as a 90-minute commercial for a star-studded soundtrack. ... the movie has all the earmarks of the "let's just make it up as we go along" school of filmmaking.

June 3, 2002 Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette | Comment
Kalamazoo Gazette

The Wash is Santo & Johnny through a swamp of mounting disinterest.

June 3, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | Comment
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Audience Reviews for The Wash

A boring and poorly-made movie on all fronts scarce on legitimate humour. The only appeal is the collection of hip-hop stars that appear including Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Xzibit, Ludacris, and even, Shaquille O'Neal. Despite this, the plot doesn't seem to be going anywhere for the longest time and you will find

November 27, 2011
Suneel J.
Suneel Joshi

Super Reviewer

HONESTLY one of the WORST films I have ever seen!!!! CAN NOT stress it enough!!!!!!!!!!!

December 24, 2007
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Miriam Kline

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