Problematic but ultimately irresistible adaptation of Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's hit Broadway musical. [Blu-ray]
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05/25/09
Grease (1978)
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Reviews Counted: 49
Fresh: 41
Rotten:8
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Consensus: Grease is a pleasing, energetic musical with infectiously catchy songs and an ode to young love that never gets old.
Theatrical Release:Jun 16, 1978 Wide
Synopsis: This film adaptation of GREASE is the zippy smash hit translation from the Broadway musical tribute to the fabulous 1950s. As a new school year begins, wholesome Australian exchange student Sandy... [More]
Starring: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway
Director: Randal Kleiser
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Reviews for Grease
...comes to life when Travolta and company are singing and dancing.
05/02/09
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04/30/09
Top CriticGrease holds up for new generations because it captures the enthusiasm of youth and the vibrancy of California's sunshine-and-cars culture.
12/30/08
Top CriticRandal Kleiser's 1978 musical, set in the Fifties, has some horrible acting but the kind of exuberance that has made it a cult classic.
09/26/08
There's a surprising strain of filth, too - this is much closer to Hairspray than High School Musical. The message is: burn rubber, have sex, strut about like a chicken. It's one that's hard to resist.
09/26/08
Much-loved but somewhat overrated.
09/26/08
Travolta and Newton-John burn up the screen with all the passion of a potato salad while occasionally singing a song you know all the words to because they play it every week in small-town nightclubs.
03/03/08
Grease has got it, from the outstanding animated titles of John Wilson all the way through the rousing finale as John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John ride off into teenage happiness.
07/18/07
Top CriticGood, clean, high-spirited fun.
07/18/07
Limp, cheaply made.
07/18/07
Top Critic... a bowdlerized version of the original stage play
01/23/07
An unembarrassed movie musical, something my generation experienced only in Sunday-afternoon movies on TV.
12/30/06
Top CriticDespite the film's rose-tinted rearview mirrors and Ipana-worthy cheeriness, it's not so much the Wedding Singer of its day as it is the Boogie Nights.
09/16/06
Its flashy opportunism (nostalgia pitched squarely at an audience too young to even recall the era) quickly becomes very irritating.
02/09/06
Its sensibility is not tied to the past but to a free-wheeling, well informed, high-spirited present.
05/09/05
Top CriticThe story is simple, easy, and fun.
10/24/03
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08/22/03
If ever there were a critic-proof movie, a film effectively ingrained into the pop culture world, it’s Grease.
08/16/03
No review available.
07/13/03
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