Car Wash

I can't believe I watched the whole thing. Car Wash must be the highest grossing no-plot film of the 60's era. The film purports to follow the workaday lives of a big city car wash crew. It parodies religion, love, hope, and expectation without ever really delving satisfyingly into any one character's experience. On the bright side, Car Wash does attempt to reconcile itself in the last half hour. Its attempts at real drama, however, are too little, too fast, and far too late. Thus, in spite of the nostalgia for the past that it brings, Car Wash cannot be viewed in any other light save in glorification of the past. And its humor is fleeting, dashing any expectation that a film so comically studded would produce at least more than a chuckle. George Carlin and Richard Pryor barely exude talent in their performances.