Cast
Maxwell Caulfield .... Michael Carrington
Michelle Pfeiffer .... Stephanie Zinone
Lorna Luft .... Paulette Rebchuck
Maureen Teefy .... Sharon Cooper
Alison Price .... Rhonda Ritter
Pamela Adlon .... Dolores Rebchuck (as Pamela Segall)
Adrian Zmed .... Johnny Nogerelli
Peter Frechette .... Louis DiMucci
Christopher McDonald .... Goose McKenzie
Leif Green .... Davey Jaworski
Didi Conn .... Frenchy
Eve Arden .... Principal McGee
Sid Caesar .... Coach Calhoun
Dody Goodman .... Blanche Hodel
Tab Hunter .... Mr. Stuart
Directed by Patricia Birch
Time Runtime: 115 min
Romance/Comedy
Grease 2 is just another sequel. Whereas the original 1978’s Grease (John Travolta, Olivia Newton John) was fun and energetic, the sequel is just it., a sequel.
The plot is a 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 and spends the rest of the movie trying to make themselves cool enough to be dateable material.
One of the movie’s few talkabouts is Michelle Pfeiffer as the head of the Pink Ladies. She is beautiful in the true sense.. You would probably watch the movie again and again just for her. (And understand why she was the numero uno in Hollywood for a long time!) You could say she carries the entire movie on her shoulders.. Sadly the same isn’t true of her opposite, Michael (Maxwell Caulfield), who never gets into the feel of the film. He sounds squeakish during some of the dialogues and songs..
Song-wise the best 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 is just average.
Trivia:
One of the first movie musical sequels since the Broadway Melody series of the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s.
’Pat Birch’ , the director of this film, was the dance choreographer in the original.
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John met with the studio to discuss reprising their roles but weren’t pursued further after the initial conference.