Stranded at the drive-in...

Rating: 6/10 (24 June 2020)

Brilliant choreography, memorable songs and John Travolta's performance, raunchy, cheesy lines and the actors being glaringly much older than the teenagers they are meant to be portraying ... that is "Grease", widely declared as being one of the best musicals of all-time. Musicals are not my thing so I can't really comment on that, but what I can say is that from a general movie experience perspective, it is actually not as glamourous a film as I remembered it to be. Sure, the performances are great and the music is very catchy, but the main problem with "Grease" is that it is a very simple concept based around a thin plot that struggles to maintain its high once it reaches its peak in the opening ten minutes. It spends the remainder of its duration trying to repeat the brilliance of "Summer Lovin'", and while it does manage to do so at times - with "Grease Lightnin'", in particular, it only just manages to be anything but dull, and by the conclusion, I breathed a sigh of relief that it was over. But overall, "Grease" is very enjoyable, even when you factor in the awkward moments where the jaded looking actors trying to portray the young people crumble, and you realise that the story really is nothing special.