GREASE: 1 or 2?

So, after chatting up with some friends I have been finding a resurgence in a generation that swear and live by Grease 2.
They feel the film has held its own through the years and has become a cult film of sorts. Maybe it's generational, maybe it IS that the music is better. Or the lyrics funnier. Maybe it's the camp value of Lorna Luft, Adrian Zmed, Maxwell Caulfield and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Maybe it's because people are sick of Grease 1.

But anyways...can anyone please state reasons or compare/contrast Grease 1 and Grease 2 and let us know which one you prefer and why?

And that's if you ONLY had to pick one of the two films.

It's entertaining too see how passionate people are about Grease 1 or Grease 2.

Updated On: 6/8/11 at 07:51 AM

true.

i find 'Let's Do It for our Country' to be hysterical.
'Reproduction' "Score Tonight' - really fun songs.

And I will take the waka-lani luau over Hand Jive any day.

I also find the closing-slowed down 'We'll be Together' in G2 a little more heartfelt than G1's

Updated On: 6/7/11 at 04:36 PM

Saxon Black chooses "Grease 2".

Grease 2 is admittedly not at all a good movie, but I don't really like the first Grease either (I have enjoyed some of the stage versions more, I admit)--maybe because I didn't grow up with it, and I do find Grease 2 so campy it's endearing. So Grease 2 for me. (I never understood why they didn't even get any of the Grease 1 movie composers to write the music for 2 though--seems... odd)

NEITHER.

I prefer Grease 1.

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^^Agree...it's totally awesome. :)

Updated On: 6/10/11 at 12:40 PM

Grease is a lot of fun and holds up well. I recently watched it again and was surprised at how fresh it felt.

Grease 2, on the other hand, is horrendous.

I remember going to see it the day it opened. The audience's reaction (a full house, too) was very similar to viewing a body at a funeral home. Nobody talked on the way out.

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GREASE is enjoyable and all, but GREASE 2 is so over the top bat**** I'd watch it over the original any day. It seems to have picked up a cult following over the years.

I thought of Jeri Blank after the fact...I made the editorial decision to let it stand, even though it's incorrect. The spirit is what counts.

And what about 'Charaaaaaaaaaade'? Perhaps the most difficult to hear musical number ever (rivaled only by Julia Roberts solo in Everybody Says I Love You).

Though I will always have a crush on Leif 'Davey Jaworski' Green.

I Love Grease 2!!! I Love, Back to School Again, Score Tonight, Cool Rider, Who's That Guy?, Prowlin and Reproduction.
The Talent Show...
The Rocka Hula Luau...
I Love it all...
Grease 2 Premiered Today June 11th 1982!
Happy 29th Anniversary Grease 2.
I Love You and i'm not ashamed to say it. :)

They both stink to the high heavens.

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