Grease (1978)
84 %
Reviews Counted: 43 Fresh: 36 Rotten:7 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.
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
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 (pop star Olivia Newton-John) and duck-tailed, leather-jacketed Danny (John Travolta)... [More]
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Starring: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Barry Pearl
Director: Randal Kleiser
Producer: Allan Carr, Robert Stigwood
Composer: John Farrar, Bill Oakes, Louis St. Louis, Barry Gibb
Producer: Allan Carr, Robert Stigwood
Composer: John Farrar, Bill Oakes, Louis St. Louis, Barry Gibb
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Reviews
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.
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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
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An unembarrassed movie musical, something my generation experienced only in Sunday-afternoon movies on TV.
12/30/06
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Despite 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
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If ever there were a critic-proof movie, a film effectively ingrained into the pop culture world, it’s Grease.
08/16/03
I didn't know that in the 1950's, high schools were populated by 30 year olds who constantly broke into nails-on-a-blackboard musical numbers.
03/19/03
Grease wraps up with a sentimental message extracted from Sandy's saga: if you want to make friends, take up smoking and dress like a hooker. Now, that's family values.
02/08/03
I’m not saying that fans should avoid this DVD (as if I could even talk you out of it), but considering the movie - this DVD should be a hell of a lot better.
10/05/02
Man, is this movie cheesy! But at the same time, it's embarrassingly entertaining.
09/10/02
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