Grease

 Grease 1978

• Director: Randal Kleiser
• Based on the novel: no
• Cast: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, and many others
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• John Travolta – Be Cool, The Love Song of Bobby Long, The Thin Red Line, Face/Off, Get Shorty, Urban Cowboy, Saturday Night Fever
• Olivia Newton-John – nothing else
• Stockard Channing – Sparkle, Out of Practice, Bright Young Things, First Wives’ Club, Moll Flanders, Edie & Pen, Smoke, Six Degrees of Separation
• Why? Stockard Channing
• Seen: Once before. Now 14 November 2020      

       Make a list of every cliché you know about every American high school, stir in a couple dozen stereotypes, and some catchy (or not) show tunes, some relatively cool dance numbers, and there you have it.

       Grease. The classic and immensely popular film.

       It’s annoying.

       Odd, I remember liking it the first time. What in the world was I thinking? Channing is still good and it’s fun to watch Travolta dancing. Otherwise he is so not my type of hunk and Newton-John is so tepid, with such a weak voice, that she could just as well not be there.

       I didn’t much like the 50’s when they were happening either.

 

2* of 5.