Grease 2 : Does Anyone Like this better than the Original?

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i like this one better too, for some reason i don't like the original one. the songs were cooler, a little cheesy but way better than the 1st.

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I like Grease 2 better then Grase 1 at least they didn't have the chessy closing with a car flying away in the end. Plus I like the music a little better in Grease 2 they had some great tunes in that movie. Grease 1 did also but it was something about the music in the sequel that was good.

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i prefer grease 2 over grease
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Although I like both, I consider Grease a good movie and Grease 2 a guilty pleasure. My opinion:

Love story: I think Grease 2 needed more interaction between non-Cool Rider Michael and Stephanie earlier in the movie. Maybe he should have begun to tutor her sooner. In Grease 1 Danny and Sandy were together at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end. I think the relationship between Michael and Stephanie works in the end, but we needed to see more of a middle. And I think it would have worked better to make it more parallel to Grease 1: Danny and Sandy each changed to please the other out of their desire to be together. Sandy became less sheltered and Danny became more "respectable" by lettering in track. In Grease 2, Stephanie didn't change as much as Michael. It would have been more parallel if she had slacked off on school and needed tutoring to catch up to graduate, while Michael was on his journey to be more American, more cool, and learn how to deal with girls. It also might have worked better to show Michael making friends more, or at least one guy friend, the way that Frenchy took Sandy under her wing in G1.

Cast/characters: Setting aside vocal ability, I think both movies had good leads. The supporting casts in both are a mixed bag. Didi Conn (Frenchy) is great and was featured more in 1. Adrian Zmed (Johnny) wasn't as cool as Kenickie I've always had a hard time overlooking the big age range of the "high schoolers" in both casts. Several of the cast members of each were 30ish and looked it.

Side plots: The Rizzo/Kenickie story was better than the Johnny/Paulette story, and the Frenchy plotline in G1 was better than any other subplot in G2.

Music: Grease 1 definitely. Many of these songs became pop culture staples. The songwriting is far superior to the songs from Grease 2. "Let's do it for our Country" and "Let's Bowl Tonight" are particularly lame.

Singing: ONJ and Stockard Channing outsing everyone from Grease 2. Travolta did a passable job, just as Caufield and Pfeiffer did. Grease 1 also benefited from Frankie Avalon with one of the best musical numbers in Grease 1.

Big school event: I'd call this a draw: the Vince Fontane dance show and the talent show each had their charms.

Climax: the reveal of the "new" Sandy and not-quite-as-new-and-improved Danny had more interaction between the two main characters than the big luau in Grease 2, which had the motorcycle silliness and then not enough interaction between the two leads.

I have fun with G2, but G1 is better written both overall plot and character development and interaction and better musically

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Grease 2 is better you dig.

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How could anyone prefer this if the best songs have nothing at all to do with the storyline?

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Yes, even though the original movie Grease was good, this one turned up the camp factor. The songs in the first movie kind of went with the story, while most of the songs in the second were kind of thrown in just to have songs. Why would you break into song at the bowling alley, or start singing about what kind of "bad boy" biker hooligan you were looking for and keep singing as you walk away through people on their way to class and they don't even look at you funny. Then you have the Rock-a-hula-luau at the end of the movie where the big fight is the T-Birds fighting the other bikers by throwing pies at them. I purchased the twin pack for like $10 bucks at Wal-mart and copuldn't wait to get home to watch this, it was so bad, you have to love it.

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I liked Grease 2's premise a bit better...because I could relate.

The dorky new guy wanting THEE hot chick of the school.

Plus the whole "secret identity" concept was also sweet. Cool Rider almost had a "batman" thing going for a while there.

Of course, the original is just...the original.

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I admit, this isn't a favorite movie but I don't wretch when its on. I love the opening number it always grabs me.

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I prefer the original but i also enjoy watching this one. Used to watch it loads when i was younger.

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I love this one more than the original. Reason...probably I saw this one first as a child and I had the VHS of this and not of the original. Therefore I watched it a lot more. So to me...Grease 2 is the original, in a way.

Also, they took a lot of the songs I liked in the Grease musical out of the movie. eg. Freddy My Love

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Same for me... I Think that the original is the better one, but my hubby saw the 2nd one 1st and loves it better. He's watched the original again recently with me and admits that as an adult, the original is better in many ways but the 2nd one still holds a special place in his heart - cheesy as it is. :) The second one is WAYYYY more raunchy though. Score Tonight is NOT about bowling... but then I guess Greased Lightning is NOT about a car either! Ha HA!!

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I think I like it better than the 1st one but only just.

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I dislike the first film, but I really enjoy this one. Grease 2 is far better, surprisingly.

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I have always loved Grease 2, I jam "Prowlin" on my Ipod all the time.


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I far prefer Grease 2 for many of the reasons already mentioned: Better songs, better characters, hotter T-Birds and Michelle Pfeiffer

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"Hell no! Grease 2 is just so unspeakably bad and lame. I see why Michelle Pfeiffer hates it. The only good thing about it is that Michelle Pfeiffer and Maxwell Caulfield are good looking. I know because Grease is popular and loved that some people like to go against what's popular and pick the sequel, but it's obvious the original Grease is just superior on every level. Grease 2 should not have been made. It was just a piece of crap used to cash in on the success of the original. That's all it was. But it didn't have the original's amazing spirit and cast.

Olivia Newton John was perfectly cast and lovely as Sandy and such an amazing singer. Sorry Michelle but you're not in her leagure. John Travolta was a 70s icon and I love his performance as Danny. He's so likable even when he's being a jerk somehow. Their chemistry is so much better. Michelle had no chemistry whatsoever with Maxwell. Stockard Channing is amazing and gives one of my all time favorite supporting performances in it.

And seriously Summer Loving, Hopelessly Devoted To You, I'm Sandra Dee, Grease Lightning, There Are Worse Things I can do,You're the One That I Want are damn great songs and musical sequences.

Grease 2 has that stupid song about doing it for America. I wanted to puke.


I could watch Grease over and over again. It's just the most fun musical ever. I can see why it's such a classic. I have no desire to see Grease 2 unless I'm in one of my "let's see a movie so bad it becomes good" moods."


I agree with every word you said. This movie is Terrible.

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Grease 2 is certainly a guilty pleasure for me, but no way is it better than the first one. While the plot of Grease wasn't earth-shatteringly original, Grease 2 is just silly. However, I do have to say that "Cool Rider" is the best song out of either movie (beating "You're the One That I Want" by a hair).

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I have to say that I prefer this movie to the original as well.

Even though it's not the best movie it definitely won me over.

Michael is definitely hotter than Danny and while Sandy was cute, Stephanie is beautiful.

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I love Grease 2 - I think the original is good, but I did (and can) watch Grease 2 over and over and over again. It's just a fun movie.

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I DO prefer the original to the sequel. BUT, Grease 2 wasn't as bad as how some people paint it. It was pretty good for what it was. The songs were good. And while the original holds more nostalgia for me and I loved the songs more, the sequel's WAY better than a LOT of crap we have out NOW!

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I'm just at the age where I was too young for the first Grease, but I was about 7 or 8 when Grease 2 came out, and they used to show it on HBO ALL THE TIME!! So I grew up with 2. I had never seen the origingal, and my girlfriend (now wife) found this to be *incredulous*, and made me go see Grease at the theatre when they released it for the 20th anniversary.

I still say Grease 2 is better! Better storyline, and you gotta love all the bikes! I drive my wife crazy because if it's on TV, we have to watch it, and I still know all the words to the songs! COOL RIDER, BABY!

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I do. I saw both when I was a kid and just loved the sequel more.

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I love this one so much better then the original.
Grease was getting boring and had snoozer parts.
like stranded at the drive in and hopelessly devoted are boring and a time waster.
Grease 2 had no snoozer songs and the group is sexier.


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I watched Grease 2 on HBO when I was around 8yrs old, I'd never seen Grease.
Later on I saw the first one it didn't like it as much.



HBO would play this movie in the afternoon and then replay it in the middle of the night...I would set my alarm to watch again at like 2am.

I know all the lines and the words to the songs.

I thought I was alone.....

Grease is good, but I LOVE Grease 2.

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I do..



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I love this. I watched this every single day when I was little which is why I still know all the lyrics to all the songs.

I watched Grease afterwards but didn't like it as much. It was less fun than the second one.

And, I really liked Michelle Pfeiffer from this.

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When I was a kid, I thought they were both equal, but now I obviously see the first one is vastly superior.

Still, Grease 2 has some great songs (Reproduction, Let's Bowl, A Girl For All Seasons) and some genuinely funny moments (the T-birds hiring Michael to write their essays for them).

The strung-together story and weak male lead make this something you have to take with a grain of salt.

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I love the first one, but this one will always hold a cheesy slice of my heart. And I can still remember most of the songs... and don't think I've ever sung a line out of one without someone joining in. So catchy...

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No the first one was better.

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ugh. I'm watching it now. No where near as good.
T-Birds suck.
"Stephanie" sucks.
the songs suck.

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Oh Mama I'm in Fear for my life from the long arm of the law

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I really couldn't tell you if I liked this better than the original because despite several attempts I never make it past the first 10 minutes before turning it off. I guess that could be a 'no' then!

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Only if you are brain dead.

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I am actually one of the few people that loved the second one better than the first. I though the music was good and I had a HUGE crush on Maxwell Caulfield when I was a kid.



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I love both, but i did like this one better! :)

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Yes, I like this movie much more than the original. And if that makes me a weirdo -- that's fine with me.

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Much better than the original for me too, i saw this one many times on tv before i saw the 1st one , so for me Grease 2 was the 1st one and the other one was a huge letdown even if i love olivia's music

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Honestly, I love both of them!

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I have to admit that I've been feeling guilty for so many years about this.
The original remains a tender cchildhood memory but I can't help enjoying this one a little better.
OK,it is because I want to feel like a little child for almost 2 hours but dialogues succesfully combine romance and comedy-the comic element is far more apparent than in the first one but does not spoil the romance.
I can't help crying during Michelle's song in the singing contest or during the epilogue.
It is really a guilty pleasure and a very happy one,since I was the most prejudiced guy in the world against it at the time of its release.I swore it was nothing than a replica.
It was anything but that.

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Hell no! Grease 2 is just so unspeakably bad and lame. I see why Michelle Pfeiffer hates it. The only good thing about it is that Michelle Pfeiffer and Maxwell Caulfield are good looking. I know because Grease is popular and loved that some people like to go against what's popular and pick the sequel, but it's obvious the original Grease is just superior on every level. Grease 2 should not have been made. It was just a piece of crap used to cash in on the success of the original. That's all it was. But it didn't have the original's amazing spirit and cast.

Olivia Newton John was perfectly cast and lovely as Sandy and such an amazing singer. Sorry Michelle but you're not in her leagure. John Travolta was a 70s icon and I love his performance as Danny. He's so likable even when he's being a jerk somehow. Their chemistry is so much better. Michelle had no chemistry whatsoever with Maxwell. Stockard Channing is amazing and gives one of my all time favorite supporting performances in it.

And seriously Summer Loving, Hopelessly Devoted To You, I'm Sandra Dee, Grease Lightning, There Are Worse Things I can do,You're the One That I Want are damn great songs and musical sequences.

Grease 2 has that stupid song about doing it for America. I wanted to puke.


I could watch Grease over and over again. It's just the most fun musical ever. I can see why it's such a classic. I have no desire to see Grease 2 unless I'm in one of my "let's see a movie so bad it becomes good" moods.



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So?
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I do.

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Had I seen the first one first, I might feel differently. As such, the characters in Grease 2 ARE Grease to me! The original is like a sequel to me.
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I'd like to see the first one, though (only seen parts), because I want to check out BALMUDO (rest in peace, bro!)!!

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Yes! It has to do with it being silly and the songs are more fun to sing as well... I like Stehpanie and Michael better as a couple too... I also love The Pirate Movie...LMAO

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The whole reason I came on here was to ask this question! I am one of those weirdos who likes Grease 2 better than the original. I have had heated arguments with friends about it. They say Grease 2 is cheesy, I say that's why I love it. It is so funny! Also, the songs are better.

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I was willing to suspend my disbelief for Grease the first (Stockard Channing, Olivia Newton-John and many others clearly much older than high school age) but with Grease 2 I don't for a moment feel like it was actually happening in the early 60s. I think it's sorta like watching a train wreck. It's Saturday night, I'm playing computer games and bored so I channel surfed and found Grease 2.

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I have always liked Grease 2 better than Grease.
I remember seeing this one first.
It was on HBO when I was a kid and I watched it over and over.
Michelle and Motorcycles... what more could a pre teen want. ;)


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