The Wash
Lions Gate Films | Release Date: November 14, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
18
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
2
Negative:
12
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Boston GlobeJonathan Perry
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.
50
USA TodayAndy Seiler
Good spirits are worth something, and the movie has them, as well as scattershot chuckles.
40
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
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. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Commits the cardinal sin of moviemaking: It leaves you bored. Read full review
33
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
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. Read full review
30
New Times (L.A.)Luke Y. Thompson
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. Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
Boring and desperately unfunny. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleCarla Meyer
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. Read full review
20
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
The story here is just not particularly amusing. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesGene Seymour
A knucklehead operation, all glands and attitude with no heart or brains. Read full review
20
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
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. Read full review
11
Austin ChronicleRussell Smith
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? Read full review
10
Washington PostDavid Segal
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. Read full review
10
VarietyJoe Leydon
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. Read full review
0
L.A. WeeklyErnest Hardy
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. Read full review
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