The Wash
The Wash
R | 14 November 2001 (USA)
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With the rent due and his car booted, Sean (Dr. Dre) has to come up with some ends...and fast. When his best buddy and roommate Dee Loc (Snoop Dogg), suggests that Sean get a job busting suds down at the local car wash.

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srobi280

Dr. Dre still can't act. Not surprising. His character is a real pansy in this movie. Which is aggravating. Snoop Dogg's performance in this movie actually got me mad. His character is such a bastard! He brings over whores, he smokes weed and blasts loud music while Dre is trying to sleep, he is a jealous bastard because Dre got promoted to manager, etc. It made me want to kill him! It made me want to crawl through the screen and punch him out. And Dre just sits there and goes "Ah, damn.." and he doesn't even do anything about it! It pisses me off! I mean, the movie was funny, but it made me angry way too often, which is why I gave it only a 4/10. And the cameo by Eminem is just lame and overacted. The way he keeps prank calling the boss is funny, but when he actually makes an appearance, it goes down the toilet. It had a few good laughs, but not nearly enough to counter-act the effect of that asshole, good for nothing son of a bitch character that Snoop plays. At least he did a good job at it.

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daria84

This movie was so damn slow, i have no idea when we were supposed to laugh, hated every minute and yet I watched the whole thing. Dre is a terrible actor, Snoop Dogg was annoying and he made me want to kill him, and all the others sucked. Eminem was cool though :D I liked him as that psycho guy calling mr wash every day to threaten him LOL Lame plot, lame script, bad acting and lots of drugs. Good music though.I'll give it a 2/10, and those 2 it's b/c 1 is for the music and 1 for Eminem. Here's my advice, don't rent it, and don't buy it, skip it unless you are a die hard fan of either dr dre or snoop dogg.

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Heather Henderson (UrbanFilmCritic)

CONTAINS SPOILERS!! I must admit, I laughed twice in the 90 minutes I was in the theater. That breaks down to one laugh every 45 minutes. At $8.25 a ticket each laugh had a cost of about $4. Factor in that when I wasn't laughing I was insulted by the ridiculous storyline and I think you will agree that I paid too much for those two laughs.The plot, (which I believe they wrote as they went along) was missing one very key element: LOGIC. It made absolutely no sense!! There were too many characters, the majority of whom contributed nothing to the story. There seemed to be no discrimination by the casting department as to who would make a cameo appearance in this film. Apparently, they didn't have to be funny, just willing. (C'mon Shaq, you had nothing better to do?)Sean (Dr. Dre) was an unemployed loser who obtained an Assistant Manager position at Mr. Washington's (George Wallace) car wash where anarchy reigned. His least favorite employee, Dee Loc (Snoop Doggy Dogg) kept his own liberal work schedule, had sex on the job, sold drugs on the job, and stole from his employer. In addition to Dee Loc there was C-Money and L'il Dee who stole money out of cars, and of course we can't forget the token Hispanic and ex-con. At the beginning of the film, Snoop made the comment that the white man didn't care about the black man. As if the white man was the reason this group of losers existed.So what's this movie about? That's what I asked myself up until the last 20 minutes of the movie. The owner of the carwash, (Wallace) is kidnapped by two bumbling criminals, one of whom Slim, (DJ Pooh) provided my second laugh. The kidnappers ask Sean to get the ransom money. That's when Dee Loc saves the day with a scheme worthy of Goldie the Mack himself.Let's talk about the acting. In Snoop's case I'll call it reenacting, because he seems to play the same guy in every film. Ironically the same guy he plays in all of his interviews as well. I hate to quote Ice Cube but, `Yo Dre stick to producing.' An actor, you ain't. I think it is sad when the St. Ides spokesman (DJ Pooh) is the best character actor in a film.I can't even recommend this as Blockbuster pick because $2.00 a laugh is still too much in my opinion.Dre, the next time you want to make a film….don't.

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twistedtenderness

This is certainly not Oceans 11. But it is also a movie where some icons try do do their own thing and while it doesn't deliver like the Richard Prior original, it does make good jabs at current urban culture from the eyes of Mr Pooh. Some lines hit just right, a few you have to snicker at and then the remaining ones make you feel the real joke wasn't meant for your eyes. Possibly the real joke was them going to the bank with a nice check. The dynamics are possibly that two friends driven by different attitudes towards 'getting by' rears itself noticeably like real life. Your given Dre the hard working up front man trying to do the right thing and Mr Dogg stepping over anything to make a buck. The tensions grow and frustrate each other until an event tries the friendship to see what's really behind it. Personally, it would seem it's almost a stab at the actual career tracks of these two pop stars.

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