Some energetic performances from the cast may make this accessible to a wider audience.
Comment
12/30/06
The Wash (2001)
8 %
Reviews Counted: 49 Fresh: 4 Rotten:45 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.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
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 populated with numerous rappers including Xhibit, Ludacris, and Eminem. Mild-mannered Sean (Dr.... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, George Wallace, DJ Pooh, Pauly Shore
Reviews
Top Critic
The lame, underdeveloped jokes far outweigh the fresh ones, the women are all chirpy airheads, and the whole thing hangs on a feeble storyline.
01/26/06
Top Critic Top Critic
You've really got to wonder sometimes how talented people end up in hopeless misfires like this film.
08/08/02
A 100% feeble comedy that exposes the dire acting abilities of two otherwise well respected hip-hop artists.
08/05/02
Top Critic
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.
03/08/07
Snoop, Dre and their buddies take it all in stride -- if they were any more laid-back, they'd be napping in their trailers.
03/08/07
Click to read the article
02/21/04
Top CriticClick to read the article
08/09/02
Click to read the article
06/19/02
Top Critic
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.
06/03/02
Click to read the article
03/12/02
Never comes off as desperate--because little effort appears to be put forth by writer-director-co-star DJ Pooh.
01/03/02
IGN RSS Feeds