Anti-individualism !

Rating: Null/10 (26 October 2010)

Undoubtedly it has some nice songs, but save them, everything ranges between silly and dumb!
Firstly, the slight matters: The "Beauty School Drop-Out" number was so unrelated to the main story. (Stockard Channing) was 34 year old, so how BY ANY MEAN she was casted as a teen girl in a high school?! The comic situations were uncomic. I was disgusted by its vulgar moments. And the end, oh the end, it can't be weaker where everything gets solved so easily; it's like the writer had no time to write!
Now, the important matters: It's another love story between 2 teenagers. OK. He tries to satisfy her by imitating who she pretends to care about (a footballer, for instance). And she doesn't find a solution to get close to him but turning her character from well-dressed, well-mannered, girl into an experienced vamp. So both of them allege something else their nature?!
Is it a study of the teen love, or adolescence itself; as a phase of instability where the character doesn't ride at specific anchor unless after many alterations first? Or is it America which was having a phase of adolescence at the time, the 1950s, amongst the changes of post-WW2, and before other changes that would make it more serious and rough? To grasp things rightly; watch carefully the success of the love story here, then its total breakdown at the start of the sequel (Grease 2 - 1982) when (Sandy) leaves (Zuko) for that bright diligent kid (who, also, would undergo a phase where he alleges a personality else his, to attract the girl he likes!). Hence, don't get excited dear viewer with the flashy and dreamy happy ending in (Grease - 1978), because it's mainly a movie about changes, the age of changes and the time of changes as well, and it's, as a movie, so glad and proud of what it talks about.
The thing is it comes with (Animal House), produced in the same year, to triumph for the lazy kids, who study nothing. And, on the other hand, glorify giving up your own self to be the formed type, agreeing with the known figure, even if you're not content with it, just to be a la mode! So, accordingly, (Grease) could be the most colorful and loud anti-individualism movie ever made. And that's why I don't feel comfortable with it, specifically while the 2 leads surrendering to satisfy the people at the end, instead of facing all of them with their true nature. It's where the movie itself surrenders to this adolescent thinking to the extent of asking yourself, after the end of part 2, does the lead love that bright kid indeed? Or she'll going to leave him for any other later?! (You can ask the same question about him too!). And it's an ordinary question pursuant to the brought up logic in the movie: live your "adolescence" in full, with all the senses of the word!
Furthermore, I hated the endless obscene sexual talk. It seems like the dialogue has it, and has nothing but it. It was just filthy teens' conversations, given freely, where the one and only thing to think, talk, and joke about is sex (masturbation, group sex, love bites.. etc). It disturbed me highly, noticing that I was watching what's supposed to be a romantic comedy. However, maybe the secret of (Grease)'s massive success back in the day is being that "rebel" among the legacy of Hollywood musical romantic comedies; to be the movie which expressed these meanings of uncertainty, the frank adolescent love of the formed type, or the pop image, plus the nakedly obscene showing of some of that generation's talking and thinking.
Long story short, that was a hit in 1978, and it is for many others; knowing that it was one of the people's choices for the best 100 movies in the 20th century, in a 1999 issue of Empire magazine, yet it isn't - at any time - that hit for me. As you see, unlike the movie's leads, I'm not shy of my individuality!