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Grease

Musical. Romance. Comedy 'Grease', the movie version of the popular musical, is an idyllic portrayal of high school infatuation and 50's cool. Danny (John Travolta) and Sandy (Olivia Newton-John) share a summer romance, thinking it will end with the beginning of school. But Sandy is transferred to Rydell High School, where Danny is leader of the leather-jacketed T-Birds. His "too-cool" stature is in jeopardy when he discovers Sandy is a cheerleader, and ... [+]
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter
"What makes it work is its youthful vitality (...) 'Grease' looks marvelous, thanks to Bill Butler’s agile camera work (...) John F. Burnett’s editing contributes importantly to the overall dynamic"  POS
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rogerebert.com
rogerebert.com
"It contains an invaluable cultural icon: the singing, dancing performance of John Travolta (...) It has charm (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"  POS
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The Guardian
The Guardian
"'Grease' has aged pretty well: perhaps because it was so loosely tethered to any time anyway, perhaps because its soapy, anticlimatic structure makes it such an easy watch (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"  POS
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Time
Time
"Good thing the songs dig their hooks into our brains, and the graphics are so smart and zesty, because the actual film, as an exercise in the fine art of mise-en-scene, still stinks."  NEU
United StatesUnited States The Washington Post "The film of 'Grease' is no plot and all atmosphere, but it's phony atmosphere (...) There are basic wrong assumptions about the way teenagers and adults viewed each other"  NEG
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AV Club
AV Club
"[A] fun, bubbly musical (...) 'Grease' never brought me into their emotionally inflated world."  NEU
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
"'Grease' set a precedent (...) A feat of perfect casting, pop-leaning songs and uproarious humor that has kept it popular through multiple generations"  POS
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Radio Times
Radio Times
"This film sets itself the peculiar task of trying to evoke nostalgia for a time before most of its audience would have been born (...) Stranger still, it succeeds in the task (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"  POS
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Telegraph
Telegraph
"That the actors themselves had long since waved goodbye to their teens was just part of the candy-coloured confection that still makes 'Grease' such irresistible fun."  POS
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Time Out
Time Out
"Its flashy opportunism (...) quickly becomes very irritating (...) Lots of colour, movement, surface glitter, only one decent song"  NEG
United StatesUnited States Newsday "[It] is a triumph of packaging, if not of filmmaking (...) [Travolta] is charming and has all the right moves. But his performance is anti-climatic"  NEU
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