Straight up...I didn't laugh once during this entire flick!
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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Reviews for The Wash
Never comes off as desperate--because little effort appears to be put forth by writer-director-co-star DJ Pooh.
Manages to rock pretty steady, largely due to the efforts of its huge cast, sprinkled with some real and promising talent.
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.
A sloppy, harebrained movie, which looks like it was made on a fraction of the budget of one of their videos.
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.
I'd be shocked if even a totally wasted Phish fan could find many laughs.
Snoop Dogg (as Dee Loc) and Dr. Dre (as Sean) let their natural chemistry go completely to waste.
So ramshackle it's nearly enough to make you forget how tossed-together the 1976 Car Wash was.
What could have been a delicious hoot about dysfunctional dynamics in a disillusioned workplace merely ends up as a woeful, clunky comedy of errors.
A depressing, stereotypical affair that can be thanked by the African American community for portraying their race as lazy, drug-addicted, and whorish.
No one will claim it steals that famous old MGM motto: 'More Stars Than There Are in Heaven.'
Basically a dribbled-out home movie about a pair of slop-around L.A. homies.
[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.
A half-baked hack job that's woefully short on laughs, style, decent performances and discernible signs of technical proficiency.
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