Good old fashioned love story with some teenage angst.

Rating: Null/10 (18 October 2010)

Sandy and Danny meet on holiday, fall in love but have to part. It's only when they both return to High School that they find that they both now attend the same place. Danny has top billing in his gang The T-Birds, and has to keep up the appearance of a 'cool dude womaniser' so he is forced to give Sandy the brush off. Seeing a chance to mess with Dannys head and put the male dominated Rydale off its stride, Rizzo encourages Sandy to join the Pink Ladies gang. Ball breaking Rizzo only lets her guard down when she becomes the subject of a pregnancy rumour and Sandy offers her friendship. The chance of fatherhood however shows Kenickie to be the decent guy he is as he offers to 'do the right thing'. There are a few subplots ending in a car race (which seems to take place in the same flood conduit as the bike race in the second 'Terminator' film)/being absolutely useless at a beauty course (pink hair anyone ?)....but the happy ending brings together all the couples, sex war over. My one and only niggle ? where the .... did Chitty Chitty Bang Bang come from ??!!!
I read the first few reviews and nearly laughed my pants off over the ones panning Sandy for trying to change (becoming a tart/ smoking...PLEASE !) to be with Danny. Isn't that EXACTLY what Danny was trying to do by taking up sports and wearing that big cardigan ! to change for the woman he loved. How can this film possibly put women down when as daft as some of the females are, there are mirror image men to match; and Rizzo probably has more balls than any of them !! This film is a good old love story, a poor persons 'West Side Story'....(yes I know it's not R & J). It makes you smile no matter what age you are, I was seventeen when it came out (sorry whats a DVD again ?) and my children love this film as much as I do.