Video details: 'Grease (Rockin' Rydell Edition)'
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| Rating: |  Parental Guidance Suggested
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| Studio: | Paramount |
| Running time: | 100 minutes | | Media count: | |
| Format: | Full Screen, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Aspect ratio: | 1.66:1 | | Encoding: | Region 1 |
| UPC: | 097361183947 |
| Average Amazon rating: | 4.5 (372 reviews) |
| Retail price: | $19.99 | | Amazon price: | $11.99 ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Riding the strange '50s nostalgia wave that swept through America during the late 1970s (caused by TV shows like Happy Days and films like American Graffiti), Grease became not only the word in 1978, but also a box-office smash and a cultural phenomenon. Twenty years later, this entertaining film adaptation of the Broadway musical received another successful theatrical release, which included visual remastering and a shiny new Dolby soundtrack. While this 2002 DVD release contains retrospective interviews with the cast and director Randal Kleiser, it's unfortunately full screen. As a result, the widescreen dance numbers are instead panned and scanned, destroying the symmetrical, lively choreography. A widescreen version is also available and is highly recommended because without the vibrant colors, unforgettably campy and catchy tunes (like "Greased Lightning," "Summer Nights," and "You're the One That I Want"), and fabulously choreographed, widescreen musical numbers, the film has to rely on a silly, cliché-filled plot that we've seen hundreds of times. As it is, the episodic story about the romantic dilemmas experienced by a group of graduating high school seniors remains fresh, fun, and incredibly imaginative. The young, animated cast also deserves a lot of credit, bringing chemistry and energy to otherwise bland material. John Travolta, straight from his success in Saturday Night Fever, knows his sexual star power and struts, swaggers, sings, and dances appropriately, while Olivia Newton-John's portrayal of virgin innocence is the only decent acting she's ever done. And then there's Stockard Channing, spouting sexual double-entendres as Rizzo, the bitchy, raunchy leader of the Pink Ladies, who steals the film from both of its stars. Ignore the sequel at all costs. --Dave McCoy |
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' Grease Sing-A-Long' opens today; here's what we learned from a Pink Lady ~ The Kansas City Star ~ 6 hours ago
Remember ? Grease ,? that goofy 1978 high-school movie musical with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John ? Dinah Manoff does, because she was there ? in a pink jacket. Manoff was 19 when she was cast as Marty Maraschino, one of the movie?s wisecracking Pink Ladies. Now, 32 years later, she?s remembering the experience anew as a captioned sing-along version of ? Grease ? comes to theaters today.
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'Grease' comes to Baltimore in a sing-along edition ~ Baltimore Sun ~ 7 hours ago
Audience members encouraged to interact with nostalgic movie-musical smash Baltimore loves "Grease," so Paramount has brought it here in a "sing-along" edition. At least that's the studio's story. For weeks it's been running an online promotion asking fans of the 1978 musical smash to vote for it to come to their city. With 1,414 demands to date ? whoops, I just checked, make that 1,415 ...
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Grease: Sing-Along | Join in: "You're the one that I want, ooh, ooh, ooh" ~ Pittsburgh City Paper ~ 21 hours ago
You already know that "Grease is the word," but what about the rest of them? In this new sing-along version of the 1978 hit movie musical (itself adapted from a Broadway show), all the words you need appear magically on screen ("Seems mine is not the first heart broken ..."). Other than that, it's the movie you remember, in all its color-saturated, fantasy-'50s glory, where high school is for ...
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'Grease' ~ The Record and Herald News ~ 2 days ago
The Fine Arts Connection, in Pine Brook, will present "Grease" on Friday, July 30 at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, July 31 at 2 and 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Aug. 1 at 2 p.m. at The Wilson School Auditorium, 271 Boulevard in Mountain Lakes. Tickets cost $15 for adults and $10 for students and seniors.
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'Grease' comes to Baltimore in a sing-along edition ~ Baltimore Sun ~ 6 hours ago
Audience members encouraged to interact with nostalgic movie-musical smash Audience members encouraged to interact with nostalgic movie-musical smash.
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