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15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Boston GlobeBoston GlobeThis 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.
- 50USA TodayAndy SeilerUSA TodayAndy SeilerGood spirits are worth something, and the movie has them, as well as scattershot chuckles.
- 38New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanCommits the cardinal sin of moviemaking: It leaves you bored.
- 33Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThis 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.
- 30New Times (L.A.)Luke Y. ThompsonNew Times (L.A.)Luke Y. ThompsonIf 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.
- 25New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickBoring and desperately unfunny.
- 25San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco ChronicleThe picture itself seems stoned. Line readings and whole scenes are abandoned midstream, as if Pooh lacked the attention span to see his ideas through.
- 20Washington PostMichael O'SullivanWashington PostMichael O'SullivanThe story here is just not particularly amusing.
- 11Austin ChronicleRussell SmithAustin ChronicleRussell SmithNext time, Pooh, why not do the work it takes and give your drowsy-eyed meal tickets some of the (as it were) good shit?
- 0L.A. WeeklyErnest HardyL.A. WeeklyErnest HardyWhat 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.