The Wash 2001

Critics score:
8 / 100

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Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Overall, the phrase 'It is what it is' has never seemed more appropriate. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: It's intermittently hilarious, though more of a drag. Read more

Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader: Two roommates start to antagonize each other after one becomes the other's superior at an LA car wash, and the conflict is played out with grittiness and flippancy. Read more

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Shows not how far we've come since '76, but how low comic standards have sunk. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: So ramshackle it's nearly enough to make you forget how tossed-together the 1976 Car Wash was. Read more

Jason Anderson, Globe and Mail: A sloppy, harebrained movie, which looks like it was made on a fraction of the budget of one of their videos. Read more

Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: Halfhearted and badly edited, the picture itself seems stoned. Read more

Toronto Star: More of a missed opportunity than a movie. Read more

Time Out: The lame, underdeveloped jokes far outweigh the fresh ones, the women are all chirpy airheads, and the whole thing hangs on a feeble storyline. Read more

Mike Clark, USA Today: No one will claim it steals that famous old MGM motto: 'More Stars Than There Are in Heaven.' Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: Read more