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Grease 2

1982, Movie, PG, 114 mins

Grease 2: Review

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Several performers from the original GREASE return for the sequel, but not the important ones. Most conspicuously absent is John Travolta, replaced here by Maxwell Caulfield, who can't lift the original greaser's comb. Michelle Pfeiffer (MARRIED TO THE MOB; DANGEROUS LIAISONS) fares better as Olivia Newton-John's replacement, but the whole movie looks as if it has been slapped together to capitalize on its predecessor's success, and no doubt, it was. The time is 1961, JFK is everybody's favorite President, and life is more or less tranquil (a dull American era suitably reflected in the dull screenplay), as Caulfield, an English lad, enrolls at good old Rydell High. He has the hots for Pfeiffer, but she's strictly off-limits, a member of the Pink Ladies Club, prohibited from dating anyone but T-Bird bikers. Eventually Caulfield, who becomes a kind of motorcycle-riding Lone Ranger, saves Pfeiffer from some meanies, but here the story runs out of gas, and the last half-hour of the film deteriorates into a talent show and a luau. Eve Arden, Sid Caesar, and Dody Goodman are back from the first go-round, as is Didi Conn, who again assaults ear drums with her blackboard-scratching voice. Lorna Luft has a small part as one of the Pink Ladies, Tab Hunter and Connie Stevens take on the nostalgia roles, and Matt Lattanzi, who later married Newton-John, enjoys a brief moment in the spotlight. Ultimately, lame jokes and stilted direction by Patricia Birch, the choreographer for the original, contribute to making GREASE 2 a waste of time for everyone concerned. Still it made enough money to prompt the producers to think briefly about yet another sequel. Wiser heads prevailed. leave a comment
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