Like gin and juice, [Dre and Snoop are] good together.
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Comedies
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
Reviews for The Wash
Weak, witless blend of Ice Cube's Friday and Richard Pryors's Car Wash.
Shows not how far we've come since '76, but how low comic standards have sunk.
Don't even bother renting it on video -- which will be available REAL soon!
Overall, the phrase 'It is what it is' has never seemed more appropriate.
A poorly written, directed and performed mishmash of vignettes that the participants apparently thought would be funny.
A sloppily edited comedy laden with sub-amateurish acting, a script with less direction than a broken compass, and a sense of humor that never made it out of the junior high bathroom.
Hilarity ensues. Except when it doesn't, which is pretty much the entire movie.
Hardly anything about this comedy is remotely funny, unless you get a kick out of Snoop Dogg getting stoned and dropping f-bombs every few words.
This ain't no Friday; in fact, you'd be wasting a perfectly good high on it.
[Script] has all of the signs of being computer generated. The N-word and the F-word are mixed liberally and randomly...
The film aims low and scarcely lives up to its own diminished expectations.
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