Grease Reviews
Top CriticThe screenplay is a prepubescent shambles, the direction is by acne out of disposable douches, the dubbing and looping of the songs is painfully obvious, the characterizations are generally repulsive and the whole thing is utterly without style.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A dumb but lively rock musical.
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| Original Score: C+
HitFix
I love the film's energy. I love the movie-star charisma of John Travolta in the lead. I love the "am I doing this right?" hesitancy of much of Olivia Newton-John's performance. I love the fact that the film is so unapologetically filthy.
Cinema Crazed
A film that's immortal for its unbridled enthusiasm and top notch production that makes it arguably the best musical ever made...
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| Original Score: 4/4
EmanuelLevy.Com
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.
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| Original Score: B+
Groucho Reviews
Problematic but ultimately irresistible adaptation of Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's hit Broadway musical. [Blu-ray]
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| Original Score: 3/4
Movie Metropolis
...comes to life when Travolta and company are singing and dancing.
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| Original Score: 6/10
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Grease holds up for new generations because it captures the enthusiasm of youth and the vibrancy of California's sunshine-and-cars culture.
This is London
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Guardian [UK]
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Times [UK]
Much-loved but somewhat overrated.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Film4
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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| Original Score: 2.5/5
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.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Good, clean, high-spirited fun.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
... a bowdlerized version of the original stage play
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| Original Score: 84/100
An unembarrassed movie musical, something my generation experienced only in Sunday-afternoon movies on TV.
| Original Score: 0/4
Slant Magazine
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.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Its flashy opportunism (nostalgia pitched squarely at an audience too young to even recall the era) quickly becomes very irritating.
