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 (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.
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
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
Reviews for Grease
Top CriticIts flashy opportunism (nostalgia pitched squarely at an audience too young to even recall the era) quickly becomes very irritating.
02/09/06
Top CriticMuch-loved but somewhat overrated.
09/26/08
Top CriticClunky kitsch quality that makes Grease such a perpetual joy.
01/01/00
Top CriticThere'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
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
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07/20/02
Limp, cheaply made.
07/18/07
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" hasn't improved much in two decades. It remains a juvenile remembrance of a mythologized '50s, a musical lacking grace.
06/18/02
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
Annoying film version of the play, which was annoying enough.
11/06/02
It's worth the price of admission just to see John Travolta swing his hips in the carnival Shake Shack.
01/01/00
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03/24/02
Good, clean, high-spirited fun.
07/18/07
It’s Travolta who provides the movie’s special treat.
08/02/02
It's nostalgic to recall how good a dancer Travolta was, and it's sad to think of what could have been had not a few missteps sidetracked his career.
01/01/00
No review available.
08/22/03
Grease is the word, baby.
09/13/02
Too pure to be pink.
01/01/00
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