The Wash Review
by Steve Rhodes (Steve DOT Rhodes AT InternetReviews DOT com)November 15th, 2001
THE WASH
A film review by Steve Rhodes
Copyright 2001 Steve Rhodes
RATING (0 TO ****): *
THE WASH, by writer/director D.J. Pooh, represents a small improvement. Unlike his painfully bad last film, 3 STRIKES, his latest frequently rises to the level of merely lame.
Although Pooh claims credit for the script, it has all of the signs of being computer generated. The N-word and the F-word are mixed liberally and randomly with a few pronouns and other parts of speech to approximate something akin to sentences.
The plot is strictly by-the-numbers, relying on flatulence and smelly bowel movements in failed attempts at generating laughter. My audience acted like they were at a funeral. About as original as the movie ever gets is a character who smokes dope while his brushing teeth. Boy, that's certainly funny.
The movie stars Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg as employees of a car wash. The owner, Mr. Washington (George Wallace), gets daily death threats, so he has his pretty clerk, Antionette (Angell Conwell), use a portable metal detector on people before they can enter his office.
Even if the story is AWOL, the music isn't bad. As a product placement, the local radio station keeps loudly hawking tickets to a Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg world premiere concert. The only point of the movie appears to be boosting sales of their music. Perhaps in that it will succeed. As a comedy, it isn't nearly as funny as an open mike night at a small, amateur comedy club.
THE WASH runs a long 1:35. It is rated R for "pervasive language, drug use, some sexuality and violence" and would be acceptable for older teenagers.
The film opens nationwide in the United States today, Wednesday, November 14, 2001. In the Silicon Valley, it is showing at the AMC and the Century theaters.
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