Grease 2
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Patricia Birch
Produced by	Robert Stigwood Allan Carr
Written by	Ken Finkleman
Starring	Maxwell Caulfield Michelle Pfeiffer Adrian Zmed Lorna Luft
Music by	Louis St. Louis
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	June 11, 1982
Running time	115 min.
Country
Language	English
Budget	$13.2 million
Gross revenue	Domestic $11,608,405 Foreign $3,563,071 Worldwide $15,171,476
Preceded by	Grease
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Grease 2 is the 1982 sequel to the 1978 smash hit Grease. The movie was strongly criticized by many as derivative of the original, and the film did poorly at the box office. In recent years, it has attained a cult following. It has surfaced on cable TV channels such as VH1 (which has shown it on their show Movies That Rock,), ABC Family, and Bravo. Patricia Birch is a American choreographer and director for musical and film. ... Robert Stigwood (born April 16, 1934 in Adelaide, Australia) is an Australian-born entertainment entrepreneur. ... Allan Carr, 1989 Allan Carr (born Allan Solomon on May 27, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, died June 29, 1999) was an American film producer and manager of actors and musicians. ... Ken Finkleman (born 1946 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian television and film writer, producer and actor. ... Maxwell Caulfield (born November 23, 1959) is a Scottish-American actor known for his roles in film, television and on stage. ... Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning, BAFTA-winning American actress. ... Adrian Zmed (born March 14, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Romanian-American television and film actor. ... This image is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Louis St. ... Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... is the 162nd day of the year (163rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... // This is the year of film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which will become the highest grossing movie for almost 15 years (until Titanic), earning double or triple against any major film of the 1980s. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... For the original stage musical of the same name, see Grease (musical). ... // This is the year of film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which will become the highest grossing movie for almost 15 years (until Titanic), earning double or triple against any major film of the 1980s. ... For other uses, see Sequel (disambiguation). ... // Events February 1 - Bob Dylans film Renaldo and Clara, a documentary of the Rolling Thunder Revue tour premieres in Los Angeles, California March 1 - Charlie Chaplins coffin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery 3 months after burial March - Leigh Brackett completes the first draft for Star Wars Episode... For the original stage musical of the same name, see Grease (musical). ... A cult film is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fans. ... Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (and often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio waves transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional... VH1 (VH-1: Video Hits One until 1994 and VH1: Music First until 2003) is an American digital television channel that was created in January 1985 by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Communications and owners of MTV. VH1 and sister channel MTV are currently... ABC Family is an American cable television network currently owned by Disney-ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company. ... Look up bravo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Plot

The movie starts in the fall of 1961 (two years after the original) with a new group of students who are members of both the T-Birds, headed by Johnny Nogerelli (Adrian Zmed), and the Pink Ladies, headed by Stephanie Zinone (Michelle Pfeiffer). He wants to keep dating her though her feelings for him are no longer there. Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Adrian Zmed (born March 14, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Romanian-American television and film actor. ... Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning, BAFTA-winning American actress. ...

Meanwhile, Michael (Maxwell Caulfield), an exchange student from England arrives. He is the cousin of Sandy Olsson, the character played by Olivia Newton-John in the first movie. Michael asks Stephanie out, but she does not feel like going out with grade-worried, good student Michael. Stephanie tells Michael she would like to date someone with a motorcycle, a "Cool Rider." Maxwell Caulfield (born November 23, 1959) is a Scottish-American actor known for his roles in film, television and on stage. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Sandy Olsson is a fictional character in the film adaptation of the musical, Grease, played by Olivia Newton-John. ... Olivia Newton-John AO OBE (born 26 September 1948) is a Grammy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated English-born Australian pop singer, songwriter and actress. ...

Michael starts doing the T-Birds' homework for money, so he can buy his own bike and impress Stephanie.

A fight ensues between the T-Birds and their rivals, the Cycle Lords (headed by Balmudo Dennis C. Stewart, who had played the leader of the Scorpions gang from the original movie) after a game of ten-pin bowling. As the T-Birds are being beaten, a mysterious biker emerges and beats the Cycle Lords, embarrassing them and conquering Stephanie along the way. Now Michael has a dilemma: either keep on going as the mysterious biker, or take the risk of telling Stephanie that he is the biker who has her so impressed and maybe lose her forever. Tenpin is also the name of a chain of ten-pin bowling complexes in the United Kingdom. ...

Johnny is jealous of Stephanie and the Mysterious Biker (Michael). He vows to retaliate against the biker, threatening to Stephanie that he will hurt him the next time he sees him.

At the June Moon Talent Contest (as summer graduation 1962 approaches), the T-Birds chase the mysterious biker into a construction site ("Dead Man's Curve"), from where he is forced to jump into the night. The T-Birds look around to try to find their victim. Everyone assumes he has died even though there is no real evidence to support the fact, and Stephanie is devastated. Later during the talent show, Stephanie "spaces out" (possibly due to grief) and turns up singing "Love Will Turn Back the Hands of Time" in the middle of the Calendar Girls' (Pink Ladies') performance. This appears to the audience to be a solo, but to Stephanie, it is a duet with her recently lost love, the mysterious biker, who now seems to be in Biker Heaven. Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Johnny and Stephanie are crowned king and queen of the talent show. At the Rock-a-Hula Luau the next day, however, the Cycle Lords reappear, threatening to destroy everything within sight. Out of nowhere, the mystery biker reappears, to Stephanie's relief and happiness. He finally reveals himself as Michael.

While Stephanie is shocked, she also realizes at that moment that the man she had loved all along was Michael, so she goes over to him and expresses her love to him with a long, passionate kiss and soon begin to slow dance to "We'll Be Together". Johnny was shocked too. Admiring Michael for the way in which he had beaten their arch-rivals the Cycle Lords twice, he decides to make Michael a member of the T-Birds by handing him a T-Bird jacket. The film concludes with graduation and poses for the yearbook (similarly to the first movie).

Cast

• Maxwell Caulfield as Michael Carrington
• Michelle Pfeiffer as Stephanie Zinone
• Adrian Zmed as Johnny Nogerelli
• Lorna Luft as Paulette Rebchuck
• Peter Frechette as Louis DiMucci
• Maureen Teefy as Sharon Cooper
• Christopher McDonald as Goose McKenzie
• Alison Price as Rhonda Ritter
• Pamela Segall as Dolores Rebchuck
• Leif Green as Davey Jaworski
• Didi Conn as Frenchy
• Eve Arden as Principal McGee
• Sid Caesar as Coach Calhoun
• Dody Goodman as Blanche Hodel
• Tab Hunter as Mr. Stuart
• Aidan Mcdonnel as Vira L.P. Enguin
• Connie Stevens as Miss Yvette Mason
• Eddie Deezen as Eugene Felsnic
• Dennis C. Stewart as Balmudo
• Jean and Liz Sagal as Twin Sorority Girls

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Musical numbers

1. "Back to School Again" - The Kids feat. The Four Tops
2. "Score Tonight" - Cast
3. "Brad" - Twin Sorority Girls
4. "Cool Rider" - Stephanie
5. "Reproduction" - Mr. Stuart and the Kids
6. "Do It for Our Country" - Louis and Sharon
7. "Who's That Guy?" - The T-Birds, the Pink Ladies, the Cycle Lords, and Kids
8. "Prowlin'" - The T-Birds
9. "Charades" - Michael
10. "Girl for All Seasons" - The Pink Ladies
11. "Love Will Turn Back the Hands of Time" - Stephanie and Michael
12. "Rock-a-Hula Luau (Summer is Coming)" - Cast
13. "We'll Be Together" - Stephanie, Michael, and Cast

The Four Tops are an American vocal quartet, whose repertoire has included doo-wop, jazz, soul music, R&B, disco, adult contemporary, and showtunes. ...

Musicians

• Guitars: Tim May
• Bass: Andy Muson
• Drums: Denny Seiwell
• Keyboards: Louis St. Louis

Recorded at Evergreen Recording Studios, Burbank by Murray McFadden and Gary Luchs

Criticism

Grease 2 was considered a flop to critics and audience members. It did not live up to the hype as the first film did. Along with criticism, most of the songs that were sung such as Score Tonight, Do It For Your Country and Reproduction did not connect with the storyline at all. The most significant milestone for which this movie would be remembered was that it was Michelle Pfeiffer's first major role. While the music was catchy, the songs did not reflect the times in which the movie was set as its predecessor did. Grease brought a wave of nostalgia for 1950s music and featured some old standards sung by Sha-na-na. Grease 2 had no songs from the early 1960s, except perhaps for a strain of "Our Day Will Come" playing on a radio in the Bowl-A-Rama. For the original stage musical of the same name, see Grease (musical). ... Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning, BAFTA-winning American actress. ... Our Day Will Come is a 1963 hit record by Ruby & The Romantics. ...

Cult Status

Grease 2 is still considered by a small following as better than the original. Many who like Grease 2 say this is because the lead cast of Maxwell Caulfield and Michelle Pfeiffer gave credible performances considering their young age and that it is more sentimental than Grease. There is also a nostalgia attached to the film. While many remain loyal to the original, it has attained cult status when seen as a supplement rather than a rival to it. Maxwell Caulfield (born November 23, 1959) is a Scottish-American actor known for his roles in film, television and on stage. ... Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning, BAFTA-winning American actress. ...

Trivia

• When Michael attempts to confess that he is the "Cool Rider" to Stephanie, he asks her "Ever read a Superman comic?" By saying thatline, Michael not only gives away his identity but also reveals that the film parallels the Superman myths. Like in "Superman," the film tells the tale of an awkward, socially inept but good hearted guy (Michael) falling for a stubborn woman (Stephanie) who is nice to him, but does not give him a second thought. The guy then proceeds to sweep her off her feet in his more heroic, daring persona. Meanwhile, Stephanie, like Lois Lane, begins to fall for Michael himself, seeing him for the good natured and honest person that he is. Finally, when he reveals his true identity to her at the end, she reveals that she loved Michael, not his "Cool Rider" alter ego all along, paralleling Lois Lane falling in love with Clark Kent for who he is as a person, not his alter ego.
• Although the connection was never acknowledged in the movie, the character of Johnny was originally intended to be the cousin of John Travolta’s Danny. But with the character of Michael being the cousin of Sandy from the first film, the writers thought that there were too many similarities.

Superman is a fictional character and comic book superhero , originally created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics. ... John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor, dancer, and singer, best known for his leading roles in films such as Saturday Night Fever, Grease and Pulp Fiction. ...

See also

• Grease

For the original stage musical of the same name, see Grease (musical). ...

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