Grease 2

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Grease 2

Grease 2 DVD cover
Directed by Patricia Birch
Produced by Allan Carr
Written by Ken Finkleman
Starring Michelle Pfeiffer
Maxwell Caulfield
Adrian Zmed
Lorna Luft
Christopher McDonald
Maureen Teefy
Music by Louis St. Louis & others
Cinematography Frank Stanley
Editing by John F. Burnett
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) June 11, 1982
Language English
Budget N/A
Preceded by Grease
IMDb profile

Grease 2 is the 1982 sequel to 1978's smash hit movie Grease.

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[edit] Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The movie starts in the fall of 1961 (three 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. [Production note: 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 Michael Carrington being the cousin of Sandy from the first film, the writers thought there were too many similarities.]

Meanwhile, Michael (Maxwell Caulfield), an exchange student from England, arrives and is greeted by Frenchy (Didi Conn), who has returned to Rydell High School to take Chemistry because she wants to mix her own cosmetics, after having previously dropped out. He is the cousin of Frenchy's friend 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."

Michael starts doing the T-Birds' homework assignments 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, whose actor had played Leo, the leader of the Scorpions gang and villain from the original movie), after a game of ten-pin bowling. As the T-Birds are being beaten, a mysterious biker wearing dark goggles 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.

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 ends 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.

Johnny and Stephanie are crowned king and queen of the talent show. At the Rockahula 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, and single-handedly routs the bad bikers. Finally, he pulls off his dark goggles – revealing himself to everyone as Michael.

While Stephanie is shocked, she 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 is 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 of the class of 1962 as the students pose for photographs for the school yearbook (similar to the first movie).

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Cast

[edit] Songs

  • Back to School Again - Cast (and The Four Tops)
  • Score Tonight - The T-Birds, Pink Ladies and Kids
  • Do It For Our Country - Louis and Sharon
  • Who's That Guy? - Stephanie, Michael, Cycle Lords and Kids
  • Brad - The Twins
  • Cool Rider - Stephanie zonie
  • Reproduction - The Kids (and Mr. Stuart)
  • Charades - Michael carrington
  • Prowlin' - The T-Birds
  • A Girl For All Seasons - The Pink Ladies
  • (Love Will) Turn Back the Hands of Time - Stephanie (and Michael)
  • Rock-a-Hula Luau (Summer Is Coming) - The Cast
  • We'll Be Together - Stephanie, Michael and The Cast

[edit] External links

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