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.
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USA TodayAndy Seiler
USA TodayAndy Seiler
Good spirits are worth something, and the movie has them, as well as scattershot chuckles.
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New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Commits the cardinal sin of moviemaking: It leaves you bored.
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Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
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.
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.
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New York PostLou Lumenick
New York PostLou Lumenick
Boring and desperately unfunny.
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San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
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.
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?
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L.A. WeeklyErnest Hardy
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.