Grease 2 is yet another sequel that completely fails to live up to its predecessor. Whereas 1978's Grease was fun and energetic, the word that springs to mind in association with Grease 2 is "forced". The director has tried to fit too much colour, too many plot elements, and too many (largely unfunny) humorous interludes into 115 minutes of film. These teenagers aren't just a little bit naughty and likeably rude, rather they are all-out hussies and juvenile delinquents.
The plot is a carbon copy of the original film. A foreign student enrolls at Rydell High, immediately develops a crush on the leader of the school's socially elite clique, and spends the rest of the movie trying to make themselves cool enough to be dateable material. One of the movie's few successes is the casting of Michelle Pfeiffer as the head of the Pink Ladies. She is both real and charismatic. Unfortunately the same can't be said of her opposite, Michael (Maxwell Caulfield), who never really gets into the feel of the film. Additionally, his voice is too light for his character, and at times he appears to have difficulty holding a tune.
Song-wise the best of the bunch are the first and last tracks (Back To School Again and We'll Be Together). They are catchy and snappily choreographed chorus numbers, worthy of inclusion in the Grease franchise. The rest of the soundtrack wavers between mediocre, appallingly sentimental and plain ridiculous. Whoever decided that a neat scenario for a song would be to have a biology class singing about the pollination of plants (with the mandatory sexual undertones of course) should have been fired on the spot. Don't sully your 'Grease experience' by watching this.
The plot is a carbon copy of the original film. A foreign student enrolls at Rydell High, immediately develops a crush on the leader of the school's socially elite clique, and spends the rest of the movie trying to make themselves cool enough to be dateable material. One of the movie's few successes is the casting of Michelle Pfeiffer as the head of the Pink Ladies. She is both real and charismatic. Unfortunately the same can't be said of her opposite, Michael (Maxwell Caulfield), who never really gets into the feel of the film. Additionally, his voice is too light for his character, and at times he appears to have difficulty holding a tune.
Song-wise the best of the bunch are the first and last tracks (Back To School Again and We'll Be Together). They are catchy and snappily choreographed chorus numbers, worthy of inclusion in the Grease franchise. The rest of the soundtrack wavers between mediocre, appallingly sentimental and plain ridiculous. Whoever decided that a neat scenario for a song would be to have a biology class singing about the pollination of plants (with the mandatory sexual undertones of course) should have been fired on the spot. Don't sully your 'Grease experience' by watching this.