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Grease (Widescreen Edition)

Grease (Widescreen Edition)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Best Young Movie Ever!
Review: I saw this movie first when I was 16, it was the best - still has extremely fond memories. It's a movie which would get to every heart.

I know the mania it created when it was first launched - boys started walking like John Travolta and girls wanted to changeover their image from the goody-goody Sandy to the sexy Sandy.

A must see and the soundtrack is even better if possible!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: GREASE will always be the WORD !!!
Review: GREASE was the word in 1977 and 1978 and again in 1998 and in my book always will be!!! Ever since i first saw it, ive been mesmerised by it and its music, and who better tp play the leads than John and Olivia! The movie captures perfectly the essence of innocence and good times of the 50's and provides us with the most famous and most loved musical of all time! Ive just purchased the Twentieth anniversary limited edition gift set and suggest all fans of the movie do to.

GREASE was,is and always will be the word !!!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Grease
Review: This isn't a great movie, in fact it is stupid. I don't understand why the 70's nostalgia for the 50's even happened. I think John Travolta is annoying. He is a good actor, but oh my god, he can't sing. I hope this movie just disapears.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It's the One That I Want
Review: John Travolta and Olivia Newton John share amazing on screen chemistry in this comedy/drama about two teenagers falling in love one summer night. Travolta's struggle to overcome his ego and to impress his friends becomes less and less important as he begins to realize that Newton-John is the One That He Wants! It is a classic love story meets ruthless comedy. The music is fantastic. Grease shall go down in history as one of the greatest musicals of all time!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A timeless movie
Review: When Grease was released, I was only 14. I remember waiting in a line that went around the entire city block. I had to buy my ticket two days in advance just to see the movie everyone was talking about. The songs were great and the movie seemed as if it were written for the two stars. Travolta never looked better and Olivia was truly America's #1 hottie. I'd never heard so much whistling, shouts and moans as I did when the movies climax had Olivia come out in that black outfit. Everyones mouth dropped open, including mine. Like myself, people left the theatre singing and dancing and they're still doing it today. The re-release of the movie 20 years later into theatres shot to number 2, just behind the mega hit Titanic. This proves it's a timeless hit.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: One for the choice of title
Review: This movie could only have been produced in America: musical, bulky cars, greaseballs and bleached-out white rock 'n' roll. I don't like musicals and my review will be colored accordingly. This movie is as light as that sugar fluff that they eat at the "Carnival" at the end. Not one second could I connect with anything that was going on. Was this a highschool or an elementary school? Surely this must be a fantasy about what the 50s were like. With a little more biting spunk this could have been a great Monty Python parody, but to me it's just a movie to quickly digest and forget all about it. I guess as a musical it has value and energy, but for the rest it had all the ingredients of those nauseating American highschool movies.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The last of the oldtime movie musicals
Review: There's almost no one between the ages of 45 and 30 who can't sing all the words to "Summer Days, Summer Nights," and that's probably the best testament to the enduring popularity of "Grease," which was really the last successful movie musical in the great Hollywood tradition. The film was the most financially successful musical ever made, and when it was released it was almost impossible to go anywhere in America or Europe that summer without hearing the film's hits on the radio.

The central casting was just about ideal, with John Travolta perfect for the narcissistic and endearingly dumb Danny Zuko and the pop singer Olivia Newton-John as the virginal Sandy Olsen (originally Sandy Dumbowski in the stage version, but they had to explain Newton-John's accent and made her, somewhat bizarrely, a visiting Australian exchange student). Newton-John is extremely likeable and enchantingly pretty (with her highly etched cheekbones and big wide eyes): it's a real shame she never had the film career she deserved, because she is exceptionally winning in this film. Her singing is lovely too, although her big number ("Hopelessly Devoted to You") was written by her usual songwriter John Farrar and doesn't sound like any other song in the film's score.

The rest of the cast is fair to middling, with Eve Arden basically walking away with the rest of the film as an Our Miss Brooks-like principal. Didi Conn makes the only real favorable impression out of the actors attempting (largely unsuccessfully) to convince us that they're teenagers. Stockard Channing is far too old to play Rizzo (although she's quite fine in both of her big numbers), and most of the actors who play the T-Birds are fairly annoying--they seem to be Borscht Belt comedians on special loan to Rydell High (that must be some exchange program).

The film is not without its puzzling points: you never seem to figure out why the televised national dance competition is being held with only the Rydell kids participating, or why the final song celebrates how much the characters like one another when they seemed largely unable to stand one another at all during the rest of the film. But its worth watching just for Travolta and Newton-John, and above all for the fine choreography ("Summer Days, Summer Nights" is a particular standout).

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Light Hearted Fun
Review: Whereas this movie is not overly deep, it does deal with the fun times of high school. Friendships and relationships are portrayed in a amusing manner. John Travolta and Olivia Newton John fit their parts like a hand in a glove. Thesongs seem to blend in nicely from scene to scene and the special effects of the day work real fine. Especially like Frankie Avalon's moment in the spotlight. The time period is a bit helter skelter it seems like the movie jumps from the beginning of the school year to the end in almost a heartbeat. But that is not enough to flatten this effort. It has a wide appeal so most audiences will enjoy it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Grease is the best Musical
Review: I first saw Grease at a friend's house. While they were talking with my parents, I went downstairs to watch a movie, where I saw a movie with the title, 'Grease'. I saw two people on the cover looking up at me from the 50's. I just shrugged, thinking, 'whatever', and put it in the VCR. Ever since that day, Grease has been my favorite musical. The music is great and makes you want to get up and dance. Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta are really good actors to be in this musical as they portray Danny and Sandy really well. This movie has funny dialogue, a great plot set in the 50's, and great music! I now own a copy of Grease which I watch constantly. I highly recommend this movie if you want something to enjoy.

~White Bird

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Memories
Review: It was my best of... when I was teenager. I wached it almost every evening. The whole film is in my mind (every word every move).


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