GREASE: 1 or 2?

Posted: 6/7/11 at 7:51am

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

[greensgreens]

Posted: 6/7/11 at 10:10am

Ever since "Summer Nights" and that wretched medley from the first film became staples at small town bars and weddings, Grease 2 quickly became my favorite. It's like the "insider's" Grease. it doesn't have the stigma of the overplayed original and WAY more fun. Plus, I think Grease 2 knows what kind of film it is - Grease 1 is confused.

The Pink Ladies pledge to act cool, to look cool and be cool, till death do us part - think pink!

Posted: 6/7/11 at 4:36pm

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

Posted: 6/7/11 at 4:39pm

They are both equally horrible.

[JSwanson]

Posted: 6/7/11 at 7:08pm

Saxon Black chooses "Grease 2".

Posted: 6/10/11 at 12:48am

^ what the frak was that? i couldn't get passed 10 seconds

Posted: 6/10/11 at 1:49am

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)

[gypsy4]

Posted: 6/10/11 at 1:51am

Grease 2 is a Guilty Pleasure of mine.

[MichaelRhodus]

Posted: 6/10/11 at 11:57am

NEITHER.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/10/11 at 12:02pm

Grease 1 - Gen X

Grease 2 - Gen Y

[StockardFan]

Posted: 6/10/11 at 12:33pm

I prefer Grease 1.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 6/10/11 at 12:39pm

Grease 2 is in no way a good movie.

It is, however, in every way, an AWESOME movie.

From Maxwell Caulfield's whisper-singing, to Didi Conn's oldest living high school student ever, to the absolutely batsh*t Turn Back the Hands of Time, which starts with a Christmas star magically flying into the air and ends with Pfeiffer dressed as Aphrodite and a bronzed Caulfield standing atop the most glamorous junk heap of all time, this movie f*cking rocks.

[singalongsong2]

Posted: 6/10/11 at 12:40pm

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


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

[trentsketch]

Posted: 6/10/11 at 12:42pm

I prefer Grease 2 just because it's so ridiculous. I have borrowed that ending many times while developing short plays before I finished them. Write yourself into a wall? Borrow from Grease 2 until you work around it. Fool proof strategy so long as you don't actually perform the Grease 2 ending for real.

[best12bars]

Posted: 6/10/11 at 12:44pm

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.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 6/10/11 at 1:52pm

GREASE 2 holds a special place in my heart. I saw it at the Ziegfeld in the summer of 1982. That fall I started high school. First day of school I was in music class and the guy next to me had with him (of all things) the program from "GREASE 2". That started a discussion between us about the film. His name is Derek and we are still best friends to this day some 30 years later!

[ABB2357]

Posted: 6/10/11 at 2:11pm

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.

[blueroses]

Posted: 6/10/11 at 2:34pm

Grease 1. Love it on the screen, hate it on the stage.

LOL Robbie, re: the whisper singing. I know the EXACT moments of which you speak.

"Who's that boy? The one on the cycle?"
*whisper singing* "What would they say...if they knew it was Michael?"

Not sure if Frenchie was older than Andrea Zuckerman or Jeri Blank, though. :)

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 6/10/11 at 2:53pm

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.

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 6/10/11 at 5:27pm

I love Grease two, a single joy of a movie. Insane, funny, over the top and some great songs

[Brian]

Posted: 6/11/11 at 7:24pm

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. :)

[Jon]

Posted: 6/11/11 at 7:45pm

I know we're in the minority here, but straight guys watch Grease II for the incredibly hot young Michelle Pfeiffer.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 6/11/11 at 7:51pm

They both stink to the high heavens.