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The Wash (2001)

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Reviews Counted:51

Fresh:4

Rotten:47

Average Rating:2.8/10

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

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for pervasive language, drug use, some sexuality and violence

Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Nov 14, 2001 Wide

Box Office: $9,756,000

Synopsis: Amidst an L.A. landscape of drugs and guns, THE WASH is a comedic working class update of CAR WASH. Written and directed by D.J. Pooh, the film is set to a pounding hip-hop soundtrack, and is... Amidst an L.A. landscape of drugs and guns, THE WASH is a comedic working class update of CAR WASH. Written and directed by D.J. Pooh, the film is set to a pounding hip-hop soundtrack, and is populated with numerous rappers including Xhibit, Ludacris, and Eminem. Mild-mannered Sean (Dr. Dre) is under financial stress, is getting no play from the opposite sex, and is without a car since his just broke down. Dee-Loc (Snoop Dog), his roommate, is a troublemaker who smokes and deals pot and works at a local car wash. Despite their vast differences, their friendship stands strong. Dee-Loc throws Sean a bone by getting him a middle-management job at the car wash. But Sean's easy adjustment to an authoritative position and his positive rapport with the boss, Mr. Washington (George Wallace), immediately puts a strain on his relationship with Dee-Loc. The old friends now find themselves at odds with each other both at home and at work. Personal conflicts are soon shoved aside when Mr. Washington is kidnapped by two moronic neighborhood pranksters. Sean and Dee-Loc unite with their co-workers at the wash to rescue their boss. (Eminem plays a psychopathic ex-employee who terrorizes Mr. Washington.) [More]

Starring: Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, George Wallace, DJ Pooh

Starring: Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, George Wallace, DJ Pooh, Pauly Shore, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Lamont Bentley, Tommy Chong, Shaquille O'Neal, Xzibit

Director: DJ Pooh

Director: DJ Pooh
Screenwriter: DJ Pooh
Producer: DJ Pooh, Phillip G. Atwell
Studio: Lions Gate Films

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Straight up...I didn't laugh once during this entire flick!

Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium | comment Comment
01/18/02
JoBlo
JoBlo
JoBlo's Movie Emporium

There's precious little to listen to, laugh at or ogle.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
01/10/02
David Segal
David Segal
Washington Post

Never comes off as desperate--because little effort appears to be put forth by writer-director-co-star DJ Pooh.

Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
01/03/02
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

Though The Wash is fairly funny, it's wholly insignificant.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
12/23/01
Tim Cogshell
Tim Cogshell
Boxoffice Magazine

Manages to rock pretty steady, largely due to the efforts of its huge cast, sprinkled with some real and promising talent.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
12/09/01
David Noh
David Noh
Film Journal International

If a white filmmaker were behind the wretched ugliness that is The Wash, he'd be branded the most racist director since D.W. Griffith.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
12/01/01
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com
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Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | comment Comment
12/01/01
Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee

More of a missed opportunity than a movie.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
11/30/01
Toronto Star

A sloppy, harebrained movie, which looks like it was made on a fraction of the budget of one of their videos.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
11/30/01
Jason Anderson
Jason Anderson
Globe and Mail
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It's an excruciatingly lewd, crude and unpolished excuse to get a bunch of rappers some time on the big screen, with a little bit of sex and violence thrown in.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
11/30/01
Derek Tse
Derek Tse
Jam! Movies

I'd be shocked if even a totally wasted Phish fan could find many laughs.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
11/25/01
Russell Smith
Russell Smith
Austin Chronicle

Snoop Dogg (as Dee Loc) and Dr. Dre (as Sean) let their natural chemistry go completely to waste.

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11/22/01
Luke Y. Thompson
Luke Y. Thompson
New Times

So ramshackle it's nearly enough to make you forget how tossed-together the 1976 Car Wash was.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
11/21/01
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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What could have been a delicious hoot about dysfunctional dynamics in a disillusioned workplace merely ends up as a woeful, clunky comedy of errors.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
11/19/01
Frank Ochieng
Frank Ochieng
Filmcritic.com

A depressing, stereotypical affair that can be thanked by the African American community for portraying their race as lazy, drug-addicted, and whorish.

Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | comment Comment
11/16/01
Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

No one will claim it steals that famous old MGM motto: 'More Stars Than There Are in Heaven.'

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
11/16/01
Mike Clark
Mike Clark
USA Today
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Halfhearted and badly edited, the picture itself seems stoned.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
11/16/01
Carla Meyer
Carla Meyer
San Francisco Chronicle
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Basically a dribbled-out home movie about a pair of slop-around L.A. homies.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
11/16/01
David Elliott
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune

[Snoop's] funny, charismatic, delivers weak material with a look on his face that will still crack you up and has the best hair of any actor working today.

Full Review Source: IFilm | comment Comment
11/16/01
Dave White
Dave White
IFilm

A half-baked hack job that's woefully short on laughs, style, decent performances and discernible signs of technical proficiency.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
11/16/01
Michael Rechtshaffen
Michael Rechtshaffen
Hollywood Reporter
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