Grease

Grease is another film that I enjoy watching when I’m
feeling alone or need something to pick me up and give
me a smile. The film is set in the 1950’s and I was
nowhere near being born yet, but it doesn’t stop me
from enjoying the film. So many of the characters we
see in this film could be from today. High school
students may wear different clothes and have new
technology to play with-iPods, cell phones and
PSPs-but the interaction of the students is still the
same. Though I do admit that seeing Patti Simcox skip
around the playground in her “poodle skirt” made me
laugh the first time I saw it!

John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John have great
chemistry on film, and the supporting cast of Stockard
Channing, Jeff Conway, Didi Cohn, Dinah Manoff, Sid
Caesar, and Frankie Avalon make watching this movie an
experience that comes close to an event worth writing
down in your pda calendar!

The movie is based on the Broadway play. The story
line is simple-boy finds girl, boy looses girl, boy
realizes he loves girl and has to win her back and
finally boy wins her back and they live happily ever
after! The music in the film is also worth mentioning.
Travolta and Olivia Newton-John have a few duets
“Summer Nights” and my favorite song “You’re the One
that I want”. There’s a solo by Frankie Avalon singing
“Beauty School Dropout” which my mother has told me is
her favorite part of the film-I think she’s imagining
that she’s being sung too instead of Didi Cohn. This
is also the only film I think I’ve seen Stockard
Channing sing in-she sings “Look at me, I’m Sandra
Dee” and also “There are worse things I could do”.

The film is nearly two hours long and it moves
quickly-from the beginning of the school year to
graduation. It has a pep rally, a big dance and a car
race included for the price of admission, but what
high school would be complete without each of those?
This film is fun to watch and always gives me a smile.
It’s funny in parts, has some very good music and has
a typical Hollywood style ending. But it wouldn’t be
such a fun movie if it didn’t have a happy ending.

imdb.com-Grease [1978]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077631/

Yahoo Movies-Grease
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800072405/info

Tuesday, December 11, 2007