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The Wash
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18 out of 100

Overwhelming dislike - based on 15 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 15
  3. Negative: 12 out of 15
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  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Perry
    75
    This real-life alliance is part of what makes the slice-of-life comedy The Wash work as well as it does, despite a somewhat skimpy though often crassly amusing script written by the film's director, D.J. Pooh.
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  2. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Andy Seiler
    50
    Good spirits are worth something, and the movie has them, as well as scattershot chuckles.
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  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    40
    Isn't much of a movie (it'll play much better on the small screen), but the likable chemistry between Dre and Snoop counts for a lot.
  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    38
    Commits the cardinal sin of moviemaking: It leaves you bored.
  5. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    33
    This rusty jalopy of a movie, which is so ramshackle it's nearly enough to make you forget how tossed-together the 1976 ''Car Wash'' was.
  6. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: Luke Y. Thompson
    30
    If it had anything that even approached the vaguest vicinity of a plot, The Wash might be a cool diversion for a Saturday afternoon at the mall.
  7. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    25
    Boring and desperately unfunny.
  8. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Carla Meyer
    25
    The picture itself seems stoned. Line readings and whole scenes are abandoned midstream, as if Pooh lacked the attention span to see his ideas through.
  9. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    20
    The pacing is slack, the comedy has an oddly sour tone and frankly, no matter how hard the script tries to paint Sean as a petty martinet with a stick up his butt, it's hard not to sympathize with him.
  10. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Gene Seymour
    20
    A knucklehead operation, all glands and attitude with no heart or brains.
  11. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    20
    The story here is just not particularly amusing.
  12. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Russell Smith
    11
    Next time, Pooh, why not do the work it takes and give your drowsy-eyed meal tickets some of the (as it were) good shit?
  13. Variety
    Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
    10
    A sloppy and shoddy piece of work, filled with just about every cliche and caricature common to low-budget, low-brow comedies with predominantly African-American casts.
  14. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: David Segal
    10
    There's precious little to listen to, laugh at or ogle in The Wash, a sudsy slog that gets sidetracked by, of all things, a plot.
  15. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    0
    What the film suffers from most, though, are its own low aspirations: stroking the libidos and funny bones of brain-dead 12-year-old boys immersed in the shallow end of hip-hop.
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6.3 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. RonaldOVOXO
    4
    I only like this movie because of the end and The Eminem Parts................................................................................................................… Full Review »
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