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Posted: 9/6/13 at 11:00pm

better than the first.

better songs.
campier.
better lyrics.
better story plot line.. and COME ON a LUAU!!!! top that grease 1.


i can also recite every word.


so can Drew Barrymore. she loves it too.

better than the first.

Posted: 9/6/13 at 11:01pm

why Grease 2 is better than Grease 1

[Owen22]

Posted: 9/7/13 at 12:19am

I love Grease2. It's pretty awful. Rockahula Luau? Cool Rider? Let's Do It For Our Country? We're Gonna Bowl Tonight? Do songs get any more ridiculously, magnificently bad? The T-Bones!!

Eventual Broadway and off-Broadway featured actor, Peter Frechette, does give a committed performance. And Michelle P, though bad through most of the movie, has this scene near the end of the film (where she's eating a hamburger I remember) where there are flashes of the talent she would soon evolve into.

The T-bones!!!

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 9/7/13 at 1:05am

Saw it many times when it was first released in Australia ( I think I must have seen it at the cinema at least 20 times )

The stage production that was talked about on the first page, played chapel off chapel in Melbourne

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 9/7/13 at 12:34pm

~ back to school again has to be one of the best openings of any movie musical i have ever seen. it really is a great number...

~ unfortunately what comes after it is just inexplicable...

~ why is eugene, supposedly a bookworm/nerd still at rydell. was he elft back 2 consecutive years in a row.

~ and why did leo change his name to balmudo? and for that matter if leo/balmudo are the same person (they are clearly the same actor) then where the hell is cha-cha?




Updated On: 9/7/13 at 12:34 PM

[TappingMan]

Posted: 9/7/13 at 6:15pm

Love it. Cant get enough of it. Loved the running joke about Connie Stevens and her, ah, um, "hair"

[amoni2]

Posted: 9/7/13 at 6:54pm

'The worst movie I have ever had the displeasure of sitting through."

Are you Amish or haven't you seen many movies? Hell, I can think of few much worse off the top of my head, like 'Lucky Lady', or 'Rent A Cop, 'A Matter Of Time' or even 'Arthur 2'.

[Idiot]

Posted: 9/7/13 at 7:57pm

The film is a desecration not just to the original GREASE but to film musicals as well. I am fascinated, though, that one person's trash is truly another's treasure. I'm sure there are people who think the film A CHORUS LINE is a perfect film musical.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/7/13 at 9:25pm

I saw this movie in the cinema when I was seven and two years later my brother and I recorded it off HBO and watched it every day one summer. I've probably said this before but we watched it so much that we could recite the whole thing verbatim in our room at night. I simply can not be objective about this movie. I will stop everything to watch it if I come across it.

[Emobacca2]

Posted: 9/8/13 at 2:35pm

It's a bit of a guilty pleasure. The script is absolutely horrendous but some of the songs are really catchy. I'm a big fan of "Cool Rider" and "Do It For Our Country"

It's also cool to watch to see Michelle Pfeiffer, Pamela Adlon, and Christopher MacDonald before their careers blew up Updated On: 9/8/13 at 02:35 PM

[logan2]

Posted: 9/8/13 at 3:06pm

Oh please. I can't believe how some people get so snobby and over the top. "It scarred me for life", "It was horrid"? Whatever. Pretentious much?

Grease 2 is a FANTASTIC guilty pleasure. Yes, it's bad, but it's so much fun to watch. My friends and I went around for a long time doing the whole "cool rider" Michelle Pfeiffer dance. "I want a cee, oh oh el - are eye dee ee are!" And when she goes into her fugue on stage and sings "Love Will" - delicious!

I always wished there had been a Grease 3 that took place in 1969 where all the students were stoned out of their minds on LSD, experience free love, and discover political radicalism with the songs sounding like something from Grace Slick and the Jefferson Airplane. That would have been FABU!

Other bad, but delicious, movie musicals - Can't Stop the Music, Xanadu, The Apple, Shock Treatment, and The Pirate Movie. I have all of them in my dvd collection. Time for a marathon!







Updated On: 9/8/13 at 03:06 PM

Posted: 9/8/13 at 3:43pm

Phyllis,

Life stops when Grease 2 is on tv for me too.



and yes...there are worse films

RENT and LES MISERABLES to start with a few. Updated On: 9/8/13 at 03:43 PM

[logan2]

Posted: 9/8/13 at 4:02pm

Oh, Mary!

But I will take Grease 2 over Paint Your Wagon or Goodbye, Mr Chips (1969) any day!






The Apple musical number - DELICIOUS! Updated On: 9/8/13 at 04:02 PM

[logan2]

Posted: 9/8/13 at 4:38pm

And how could we forget the surreal nightmare that is Ken Russell's Lisztomania?
Omigod! It's a giant peen!

[logan2]

Posted: 9/8/13 at 4:38pm

Last one, I promise.












Carol Channing losing her mind! Updated On: 9/8/13 at 04:38 PM

[gleek4114]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 2:41am

So I'm watching it right now for the first time and up until now I was not sure what to think. "Reproduction" just finished and I lost it. It was so ridiculous and weird but it cracked me up. I just found my new guilty pleasure.

[HorseTears]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 4:07am

I'm on the fence with this one. I objectively understand why it's a terrible film, but I have to admit I've willingly seen it more than once. The first time was when I was six and my grandmother had rented it for me. For all the attention the beautiful Maxwell Caulfiled (deservedly) gets, it was Adrian Zmed who set my... you know on fire. Zmed doing his best hip-jutting Elvis moves in tight black jeans and a barely buttoned shirt during "We're Gonna Score Tonight" certainly helped confirm some suspicions I had about myself. I kept asking my grandmother to rewind so that we could rewatch the scene. She must have thought I was really into bowling.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 4:30am

DAMN these two looked good! Super terrible but super fun flick!

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 4:54am

And, after all, it's not as if GREASE 1 set the bar so high. Its success has always mystified me. (And I loved the original Broadway show.)

[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 7:28am

Ah yes, the musical that gave us such clever and insightful lyrics as

"I want a cool rider. A coo-oo-oo-ool rider. I want a cool rider. (dramatic pause) I want a rider that's cool."

My brother and I used to quote that song and "We're gonna bowl tonight", "Reproduction", and "Do it for our country" all as brilliant examples of the worst songwriting we had ever heard up to that point. The movie was definitely the worst one that either of us had ever seen, and we have still laughed about how hilariously bad it was 20 years later. But it is definitely in the so-bad-its-funny category, so i can understand why some people might just love it outright - it definitely makes one laugh, whether intentionally or not.

And for the record, I loved the Xanadu film and hated its stage musical adaptation that basically just consisted of making fun of the film in a 'look-how-hipster-we-are' kind of way without actually adding anything better to the script instead. So i am not opposed to cheesiness if it comes with great songs like the ones that Olivia Newton-John or Gene Kelly sang in Xanadu (and Gene Kelly tap dancing (or soft-shoeing) is always welcome in my book).

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 10:41am

I, too, cannot be objective about this movie. AT. ALL. I adore every awful minute. When that Xmas tree star flies out of Pfeiffer's hand and then she becomes a Greek goddess? Amazing.

Though I recognize the hotness of Zmed and Caulfield, it was Lief Green as Davey that set my heart a-flutter. I've spent the rest of my life being attracted to Hebraic wee men.

[gleek4114]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 2:13pm

Just for fun, who would you guys dream cast if a stage adaption ever happened? I'll start out by saying Jessica Keenan Wynn as Stephanie.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 2:28pm

GREASE 2 is one of my all time favorite guilty pleasures! I gotta watch this again!

[HorseTears]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 6:01pm

Yeah, Robbie, Leif Green was a cutie. Who sang that song in the bunker about doing it for your country. That fella worked for me, too. I think it was the take-charge attitude and the look of teenage lust in his eyes.



You guys? I think Grease 2 made me gay.

[The8re phan]

Posted: 7/30/14 at 6:40pm

Grease 2 made me gay as well.

Back then, we used to say that if you've sat thru this film more than once, you are most likely gay -- I myself must have seen the movie at least 8 times in the theater when it was originally released…..and I'm damn proud of it. :)

Nowadays, I believe that you don't have to be gay to like Grease 2, but it certainly does help!