As Good As Musicals Get!

Rating: Null/10 (18 June 2004)

I'm tired of some people trying to make every film out to be Shakespeare. No, it isn't the deepest plot ever seen on Celluoid, nor with the world's greatest actors. "Grease" is simply the greatest musical of all-time! When judging a film I think it's important to figure out what the filmmakers were trying to accomplish. It's obvious they set out to create a nostalgic love story with catchy, memorable songs, and likable characters. I think they achieved on all three.
If you are one of the six people on Earth that haven't seen "Grease" it centers around the story of a bunch of friends going to high school in 1959. John Travolta is Danny Zuko, the leader of the T-Birds. The leather-jacket wearing, slick haired, tough guys of the school. After spending the summer with a girl named Sandy (Olivia Newton-John) he must return back to Rydell High, where to his surprise, is reunited with Sandy. The rest of the story is Danny's attempt to win back Sandy, his gang's attempt at fixing up an old car to race against another gang, and the National Bandstand Dance-Off, being broadcast live from Rydell.
"Grease" is basically a feel-good, 50's tale about the adventures of a group of high school kids. Every actor was great at their part, and I disagree with anyone who says they looked older. I mean with the exception of Stockard Channing, all those guys could pass for 18. "Grease" paints a picture of a simpler time, when there were malt shops, leather-jackets, and dance-offs. It's hard not to fall in love with everything about this film.
Grease is the word! **** out of 5