Grease (1978)
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Reviews Counted:50
Fresh:42
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
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 B+ |
One of the most commercially successful transfers of a Broadway musical to the big screen, Grease is not a great movie but it's a lot of fun to watch and listen due to superlative cast. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Problematic but ultimately irresistible adaptation of Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's hit Broadway musical. [Blu-ray] Full Review |
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6/10 |
...comes to life when Travolta and company are singing and dancing. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Travolta is a riot. Alternately swaggering to prove his "coolness" and re-affirming his ability on the dance floor, the actor gives the kind of performance that's perfect for the role. Full Review |
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Grease holds up for new generations because it captures the enthusiasm of youth and the vibrancy of California's sunshine-and-cars culture. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Randal Kleiser's 1978 musical, set in the Fifties, has some horrible acting but the kind of exuberance that has made it a cult classic. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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 2/5 |
Much-loved but somewhat overrated. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Good, clean, high-spirited fun. Full Review |
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Limp, cheaply made. Full Review |
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84/100 |
... a bowdlerized version of the original stage play Full Review |
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0/4 |
An unembarrassed movie musical, something my generation experienced only in Sunday-afternoon movies on TV. Full Review |
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1/4 |
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. Full Review |
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Its flashy opportunism (nostalgia pitched squarely at an audience too young to even recall the era) quickly becomes very irritating. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Its sensibility is not tied to the past but to a free-wheeling, well informed, high-spirited present. Full Review |
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0/4 |
The story is simple, easy, and fun. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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81/100 |
If ever there were a critic-proof movie, a film effectively ingrained into the pop culture world, it’s Grease. Full Review |
CommentLatest News for Grease
September 19, 2008:
Paramount DTV Sequel Plots Revealed 
Finding yourself morbidly curious about that slew of direct-to-video sequels announced by Paramount recently? You'll want to check out studio exec Louis Feola's recent interview... More...
March 03, 2006:
Travolta & Latifah to Share "Hairspray"
John Travolta and Queen Latifah have signed on to star in New Line Cinema’s upcoming feature film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical "Hairspray," it was announced... More...
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