As a 12 yr old girl who'd never seen Grease it was easy to fall in love with Michael Carrington and think Michelle Phiffer looked like an angel!! What's funny is I'm now a 47 yr old mother with 3 kids(22,19 & 16) who know Grease 2 line for line! It's hokey, kitschy and just the right amount of corny!

I obviously liked this more than the critics. The story is kind of bland and the acting isn't great, but it's a fun movie and i enjoyed the songs more in this one than the first one. It is a sequel, but if they'd changed it slightly and not named it after the first one it would have scored higher with critics. Seeing great gay actors acting straight was as much fun in this one as the first one. (I will admit I had a huge crush on Peter Freshette until i learned he was openly gay). Anyways, the first movie was good and well done, but this one i think is every bit as good, but they ruined it by making it a sequel. Still enjoy watching it immensely however and dislike people badmouthing it.

Following in the footsteps of the box office success that was 'Grease', this less ostentatious sequel was almost destined to open to negative reviews. Some of the criticisms are admittedly on the mark. In particular, Didi Conn reprising her role as a post-graduation Frenchy never quite works; the attempt to link to the first 'Grease' film by making the male protagonist Sandy's cousin is also forced. 'Grease 2' is, however, a better film than one might expect from its reputation, and its reversal of the original movie's formula makes for a more engaging story. Whereas the first film was about an out-of-place teenage girl giving in to peer pressure and conforming to impress a guy, here it is the guy who has to conform to impress the girl. In both films, the message offered (conformity is good) is hard to swallow, however, as the transformation this time is more gradual (not all of a sudden at the end), it is easier to get under the skin of the protagonist here and feel for his mixed emotions. A refined Maxwell Caulfield also makes for a more appealing lead actor than John Travolta, who acted pretty smug throughout the whole of the first film, and while Michelle Pfeiffer is no better than Olivia Newton-John, she is certainly no worse on the acting front; singing is another matter. That said, the film has some pretty decent songs, even if they are nowhere near as iconic as the original's tunes; "Turn Back the Hands of Time" is a particularly beautiful tune. The film is surprisingly funny too with the school's kooky administration team given twice as much screen time here.

This movie was on Netflix so I decided to watch it. I hadn't seen Grease in years so that was the last thing on my mind while watching it. I enjoyed it. It wasn't necessarily bad just boring. The things I did like about it was the song Cool Rider and the character of Michael was generally likable. One complaint I do have is during one of his songs it is so obvious he doesn't sing it. If I didn't watch Grease right after this what have gotten 6 stars. However I did. I was laughing all through the movie and singing along and that is a movie that holds up over years. Grease 2 just didn't capture the spirit of the first Grease. Grease 2 was raunchy and not in a good way. In Grease the dirty jokes were clever and they were just kind of there in Grease 2. The characters in Grease 2 weren't memorable either. All in all, don't bother with Grease 2 if you can watch Grease.