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Grease (Widescreen Edition)

Grease (Widescreen Edition)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best Musical Ever!
Review: I love Grease! It is the best musical I have ever seen. Olivia Newton John is a wonderful singer and John Travolta is too. Get this movie! The song and dance gives a perky feeling to everybody... especially if you're singing along!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Best Musical Of All Time...A Must See!
Review: Grease is by-far the best thing that happened to the movies in the 70's. I mean...The Wiz was good for some enjoyable fun the same year, but Grease was just that special kind of movie with an excellent cast and memorable songs that never stops entertaining you. To make things even better, the movie gives a large dose of humor.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Timeless Fun
Review: I first saw Grease when I was nine years old and have grown up with it up until today. Looking back, I can't believe how much of the sexual innuedo I didn't understand when I watched it for the first time! (John Travolta wiping siren wrap over his crotch, A screen with a hotdog jumping into a bun while Travolta is singing "Stranded at the Drive-In")What makes this movie so special is simply the quality- maybe it doesn't have the special effects or a message you can live your life by, but it is one of the most fun, timeless pieces of work you will see for years to come. Trust me, you will NEVER get tired of it. If you can, try seeing it in a theatre because with twenty other girls in front of you singing along to Summer Nights, it will be ten times more difficult to get those infectious songs out of your head.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Grease is still the word!
Review: After years people still love Grease. Grease is about two highschool sweethearts who madley fall in love over summer vacation and then they meet at school. Those two are Sandy and Danny. Kind of rimes doesn't it. Anyways they fall in love but then they start to split up as the year goes by. Danny is the most popular guy in his senior grade while Sandy a brand new school for her is nerve wrecking. She hangs out with the pink ladies who date the most popular guys in school. Sandy is totally oppossite of the pink ladies because she is really charming and sweet but then in the end she changes her looks and her adittude to get Danny back. With Sandy and Danny hitting the Dance floor with lots of music you can't go wrong.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: best musical ever filmed how about a grease reunion
Review: I was always wondering why a sequal like grease the reunion which would include the original cast members was never filmed ?
Even though the sequal grease 2 was nothing like the first! I'ts never to late to make one especial when we have the ability to produce great special effects in films why not mucicals. I would defently love to see that just like many other fans. I highly recomend grease a film to include in your home video collection. p.s When will the dvd come out it seems like most other popular film have already been relesed why not grease?

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A classic never to be forgotin, needs more plot
Review: Grase is a pure classic I remember going to see it the day after it opened and it was packed I waited for 3 hours for tickets but it was worth it ANYWAYS
Grease is about a High School boy who meets this girl (Sandy) on the beach during the summer but when they supriseingly run into each other at school, the movie really has a little to much singing after watching it a few times you will relize that the movie is mostly just singing and the plot of the movie just kinda drifts with all of the singing.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Stockard Channing?
Review: I give this movie five stars only because they put Stockard Channing in it. She just made this film. Yeah, yeah...Olivia was great singing by the pool and yes the song is great and all. But hey her acting chops arent' that great. Okay so she looked fantastic with the sandy 2 outfit. But Rizzo was actually the only character with some meat to it. Even though Stocard Channing was too old for the role she pulled it off and with so little to work with she actually makes the viewer care about her. While you forget the rest of the cast after the first ten minutes the movie is over. You kind of remember Rizzo. Maybe because she was the ho or maybe because...hey, she actually was the only who had to act in the entire movie. And that song "There Are Worse Things I Could Do". That such a great song and the emotions she put into it and the feelings one gets just hearing her sing. It is actually the only song I remember. The rest just goes out the door once the movie is over. You have to admit it the next time you watch "Grease" that Rizzo is actually the best role in the film.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: THERE ARE WORSE THINGS I COULD DO
Review: This summer I had the privilege and pleasure of being part of a local production of Grease, albeit in an offstage capacity. It was amateur, though not amateurish. Sure, most of the cast won't be seen on Broadway, but I came away with a pretty good idea of what Grease the Musical should look and sound like.

Unfortunately, you won't find out if you purchase Grease the Video.

This version is a 50's musical in a 70's setting, or a 70's musical in a 50's setting. I haven't decided which. Moreover, I don't think the producer, Robert Stigwood, had decided either when he embarked on this project.

Stigwood, in case the reader didn't know, also produced the movie musical Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band based on the Beatles' album (as if I had to explain this. Or do I?) That movie was featured in Golden Turkey Awards: The Worst Achievements in Hollywood History by film critics Harry and Michael Medved. In Grease the Video, caricatures of 50's greasers sing songs that careen across two decades. The original Greased Lightning is here, but so are You're the One That I Want and Hopelessly Devoted to You, sung by Olivia Newton-John, an immensely cloying and annoying vocalist. Sure, the added songs are good by Top 40 standards. But what are they doing here? Had Stigwood produced Fiddler On the Roof, we might have had to listen to the diaspora singing disco.

Adding songs that weren't in the original was bad enough. Some songs were cut to make room for the 70's updates. Missing from the video is the exuberant opening number, a parody of the Rydell High School alma mater song. Also missing is the tender, plaintive It's Raining On Prom Night. Alone at the Drive-In got switched for a sappy Sandy. You're the One That I Want took the place of the snarling little darling I'm All Choked Up.

Grease the Video is not without some merits. Frankie Avalon is the perfect choice, perhaps the ONLY choice, as the Teen Angel who sings the hilarious Beauty School Dropout. Stockard Channing also appears as the cynical yet vulnerable Rizzo. I suppose there are worse things Stigwood could do. Find out for yourself. Go rent Sergeant Pepper instead, and save the remainder to see a local production of Grease As It Should Be.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I love it
Review: I just want to say i think John Travolta has the cutest dimples ever. And the film isn't half bad either. The best part however is the music, so i highly recommend the soundtrack as well. A definite classic.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Pretty Good
Review: I found this film to not be very much like the stage show. It's still pretty good though. John Travolta and Olivia Newton John are both funny and charming. I don't have a lot to say about it, the other reviewers have said most of what there is to say


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