The Wash (2001)

Director:

DJ Pooh

Writer:

DJ Pooh (written by)

Release Date:

14 November 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

When you're down 'n dirty, it all comes out in...

Plot:

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)...

Plot Keywords:

Car Wash | Rent | Roommate | Low Rider | Sex Standing Up

Cast

Anthony Albano	...	Mafia Tony
Dr. Dre	...	Sean
Tic	...	Maniac's Homie #2
Lamont Bentley	...	C-Money
The Bishop Don Magic Juan	...	Himself
Bruce Bruce	...	Dewayne
Thai Buckman	...	Ashley
Frank Chavez	...	Officer Hoppy
Tommy Chong	...	Dee's Connection
Angell Conwell	...	Antoinette
Mark Cooper	...	Guy #1
Joseph Davis	...	Guy #2
Tray Deee	...	Thug #3
Louis Deron-Davenport	...	Maniac's Homie #1
DJ Pooh	...	Slim

Runtime:

UK:96 min | USA:93 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Germany:12 | Norway:15 | UK:15 | USA:R | Australia:MA

Company:

Lions Gate Films

Trivia:

Eminem was deliberately left uncredited for his role in this film so that 8 Mile (2002) would be his feature film debut.

Movie Connections:

Version of Car Wash (1976)

Soundtrack:

On the Boulevard

The laughs aren't really there, but the style is cool

The Wash is like hip-hop eye candy- it looks cool and even tempting, but when you try and hear the jokes it registers that it's stupid a lot of the time. The Wash, from co-writer of Friday, also did 3 strikes which was interesting some of the time but not totally as funny as it should've been. Pooh's new film is like that, yet instead of being interesting it's hip and flashy.

Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre star here (not there first film together, the better film Training Day comes to mind) as two guys who usually have what most young urban professionals want- weed, hoes and uh, bling bling. But the money well has run dry and a 3 day notice has just been put up and in order for dre to pay his half of the rent he gets a job with the car wash Snoop Dogg works. He starts to realize Snoop at work is a complete slacker as tensions start to build between the two, but this changes when their boss (played mostly dead-pan by George Wallace) gets kidnapped.

Sometimes it's laugh out loud, other times it's so quiet in the theater after a bad joke you can actually hear crickets chirp. In other words, it's stupid, low brow fun with many cameos- Tommy Chong, Eminem, Shaquille O'Neil, Pauly Shore, Tiny Lester, writer/director Pooh as one of the kidnappers and a couple of minor characters from Friday and 3 strikes. Between B- and C+