This week I didn’t get to rent any movies or go out to the theater, instead I had to sit in a library and study. LAME! But I did catch Grease 2 on the tele which I hadn’t seen because I’m not much of a sequel fan. Even so, the movie did hold my interest because it stars the beautiful Michelle Pfeiffer and some hot Australian love interest. First of all, I love the first Grease. Great catchy music, cute story, but sequels are tricky to pull off.
A list of some movies, off the top of my head, that had good sequels are all the big Blockbuster series, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etcetera , etcetera ,etcetera. Most non- series sequels are almost never better than the original. Home Alone Two is alright, but is not better than the first one. New Moon, less sucky than Twilight but that’s because it was done by a better director who turned a crappy movie into not so bad music video.
Toy Story and Shrek had sequels all done well, but it’s always going to be harder to top that classic movie like Grease and try pulling it off with a different cast. What if Toy Story 3 was done but Tom Hanks wasn’t Woody’s voice? I would not have paid the ten bucks to go see it in 3D.
So was Grease 2 good? Nope. Maybe if I was really bored and on my period scarfing done a bug tub of Rocky Road ice-cream. My reason for not liking it is mainly because the first Grease set the bar so high, part two didn’t have enough carrying it to meet the necessary standards. Crappy music, and terrible Michelle Pfeiffer day dream sequences made the movie incredibly corny and lame.
Movies like Grease 2 keep this fellow Movie watcher hesitant form sequels.
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