Even More Awful than I Expected

Rating: 6/10 (9 October 2007)

A guy and girl fall in love, but then must return home... only to find out they go to the same high school and act completely different when their friends are around. With the help of some music and dancing, can they make cars into speed demons and ladies into sexual creatures? Oh, I think maybe they can...
The only reason I should have watched this film was to see Lorenzo Lamas as Tom Chisum. John Travolta was nothing special, Olivia Newton-John (who the video clerk said would be a guy's dream) was nothing special (and Australian) and Stockard Channing... oh my!
Here's the spoiler: after all the singing and dancing is over, the female lead decides that instead of being herself, she is going to start smoking and wear black leather to be with the man she loves, despite the fact the man she loves was only acting at the time. The male lead, who was beginning to change, reverts back to his old self and everyone is happy. Moral: women of the world can only be happy once they give up their identity and become a man's shadow. (Ladies, don't you think there are other man more like you in the world? Just maybe not at Rydell High.)
So yeah, I had to watch this against my will. At least my friend Lisa was nice enough to suffer with me. I know the songs, I don't mind the songs (especially when done by Less Than Jake), but the film is just trash and I have no idea how this has become an international sensation. Rubbish!