'Grease': John Travolta discusses the viral fan theory that Sandy is really dead Louis and choreographed by director Patricia Birch, and infectious songs such as "Cool Rider," "Reproduction" and "Girl for All Seasons" that rival anything in the original Broadway adaptation. But she points to the second film's wall-to-wall bops written by Louis St. She has all these guys after her and chooses who she wants to be with."Īs a self-confessed "die-hard fan" of the first movie, comedian/host Anna Roisman won't go so far as to say "Grease 2" is superior. "The fact that Sandy changes herself completely is so much less empowering than Stephanie, who isn't changing for anybody.
"It's an improvement on the original 'Grease.' It has a more fun, female-forward energy," says writer Gwen Ihnat, who penned a passionate defense of the sequel in 2017 for The AV Club. 'E.T.' 40th anniversary: The cast then and now, including Drew Barrymore, Henry Thomasīut thanks to a lively Twitter conversation sparked by "The Big Sick" director Michael Showalter, and famous fans including Andrew Garfield and June Diane Raphael, the film has been fondly re-evaluated online in recent years, with many people insisting that "Grease 2" is actually better than the first movie. As a result, Paramount scrapped plans for a third and fourth movie set during the counterculture movement. "Grease 2" flatlined at the box office thanks in part to blistering reviews, with critics calling it a "slight" and "mostly awful" rehash of the original. But when Stephanie rebuffs his advances, saying she's holding out for a "cool rider," Michael transforms into a masked, motorcycling hunk to win her heart. Set in 1961, two years after Danny (Travolta) and Sandy (Newton-John) literally flew off in a souped-up car, the sequel is once again set at Rydell High School, where new Pink Ladies leader Stephanie Zinone ( Michelle Pfeiffer) meets Michael Carrington (Maxwell Caulfield), an impossibly handsome British student who's also Sandy's cousin. Read on for the best movies of 2022, ranked! (And for more, explore the best movies of previous years with our guides on 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018.If "Grease" is the word, then its scattershot sequel is a run-on sentence.įeaturing gleefully chaotic musical numbers and more abandoned storylines than "Game of Thrones," "Grease 2" opened in theaters on June 11, 1982, with high hopes of matching the success of its 1978 predecessor starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. More headline-grabbing films include another great Adam Sandler dramatic turn in Netflix’s Hustle, the surprise Predator return-to-form prequel Prey, the latest from auteurs Jordan Peele and Robert Eggers ( Nope and The Northman, respectively), and Jujutsu Kaisen 0, which sees anime continuing to make inroads with critics and at the box office. With afterburners activated, the crowd-pleasing blockbuster set records across the board, including an easy landing on the coveted billion-dollar movie hall of fame.
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Of course, no story about the state of movies in 2022 is complete without full mention of Top Gun: Maverick.
Spring saw a string of critical hits, including the dark crime epic on The Batman, the spirited YA comedy Turning Red from Pixar, and two from A24: Some throwback horror with X, and Everything Everywhere All At Once, which would become A24’s biggest box office hit, surpassing Hereditary. The year started strong with Scream in January, becoming the first Certified Fresh movie in the franchise since 1997’s Scream 2.
Welcome to the best-reviewed movies of 2022! All eyes are on the film slate as 2022 represents the first year since the pandemic lockdown that saw theaters back at full capacity. Featured image: A24.) Best Movies of 2022 Ranked (Photo by Paramount/courtesy Everett Collection.
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