Customer Reviews
Grease 
2008-02-25
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John star in this '70s version of the '50s. Olivia came from Australia and won the hearts of music fans. "You're The One That I Want" is the hot number here. The pair dress in black. "Tell me about it, stud!" Grease appeals to successive generations. Male/female duos perform Summer Nights to karaoke tracks. The film exaggerates. There were no T-Birds or Pink Ladies where I was from. The cast of Grease was long since out of high school, ranging in age from 19 to 35.
Original Soundtrack DESTROYED !!! 
2007-12-29
While the re-mastered video gets a big thumbs up, the audio couldn't be worse. The ramped up sound fx are tolerable and in some cases an improvement on the original. However, they (sound fx) are too 'in your face'. All audio sounds very compressed. It seems they tried too hard to make sure you noticed the changes. The music tracks are a different monster. They are terrible!!! The original tracks are not simply re-mastered. Many additional audio tracks have beeen added. And badly I must say. The reverb's used are stupid big and overbearing. The many additional layers of instrument tracks tends to bury the lead vocal on some tunes! Surround sound is stupid over-done and exaggerated. You will need to turn up your center channel alot to clearly hear lead vocal parts or better yet, turn off your surround sound and watch in stereo. Even in stereo, this is the worst audio re-mastering i've ever encountered. New instrumentation sounds very generic and electronic and clearly was laid over a complete 2-track recording, sounds a bit like karaoke instruments, not 'in the mix' but on top of it. Like one guy with a pc/sequencer re-did the whole soundtrack. And some songs were changed alot, Olivia's 'Hopelessly Devoted to you' has drums and full instrumentation from the very beginnig, it doesn't 'kick in' on first chorus, like the original. They took a 1970's movie, set place in the 50's, and now has music that sounds like 1990's bad pop. I assume this was an attempt to sound modern. This re-master clearly misses the mark from an audio standpoint. The video is superb and the DVD extras are a nice addition.
Grease (Rockin' Rydell Edition) 
2007-12-11
This classic motion picture returns, 25 years later, looking better and sounding better too. Remastered, this DVD has better audio and video than what was seen on the silver screen when it was first released. They did not have 5.1 surround sound back then. To top it off, the DVD comes in a classic jacket, and I do mean jacket, leather with metal zippers and snaps with "T" Birds painted on the back. The kids of today even enjoy this timeless picture. John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John bring out the best in each other in this musical full of fun, nostalgia and great song and dance.
Second thoughts about being hopelessly devoted to Grease 
2007-12-09
"Grease" has passed into our shared American experience, and who among us cannot sing along to its justifiably famous songs? But seeing the movie as a child in the theater is much different than watching it as an adult. The last time I watched it, the TV channel provided commentary on a crawl at the bottom of the screen, and the two crucial, gaping flaws with the movie finally crystallized.
First, the age of the actors. God bless `em, but they were WAY too old to be high schoolers. Stockard Channing was 33, or nearly twice the age of her character. Ms Newton-John was 29. Now, I'm not asking for perfect verisimilitude in a movie, but you can't violate my willing suspension of disbelief so obviously.
The second problem is the location of the school. The T-Birds look like a classic Long Island / New Jersey type gang, similar to the Lords of Flatbush, complete with the accents. But the school has palm trees waving in the background, and the final race, as almost anyone who has watched any movie made in America can tell you, takes place in the L.A. River basin. It creates an inconsistent and inauthentic setting.
Excellent celebration of the first High School Musical 2007-11-13
Never dated and I remember the lyrics to every song. The extras are worth the price on their own
Heavy on the Grease 2008-07-04
Grease will always hold a special place in my heart, it is part of my childhood and holds many nostalgic memories for me. Saw the movie when I was 8, was given the soundtrack on vinyl (as well as Saturday Nite Fever) for christmas. Played it on my ladybug turntable, and sang along to every song with my friends, 1978. The only way to truely watch Grease is on "full screen". U just can't enjoy it any other way. I bought it on widescreen and was totally horrified. It just doesn't have that same effect. I later purchased the full screen edition, and again I was in Grease heaven. Grease is one of the best movies of all time. Olivia Newton John and John Travolta are fantastic. This is John Travolta's best movie to date, I don't care what anybody says. Grease will make u laugh, sing and cry. it is just an all around, feel good movie that cannot be compared to any other. Ask yourself this, what would you rather watch, Grease or Gone With The Wind? It's a no brainer, Grease is the word. I worked with Stockard Channing once and I just had to tell her I loved her in Grease and that it was an honour to work with her. At least I got to tell one of the cast members how much I love the movie and how people still remember it to this day. This film is loved and praised by many people and rightfully so.
One small problem... 2008-06-02
OK, fun songs, cute acting, generally a good time. But has anyone noticed that the moral of this story seems to say that you should change yourself into something you're not in order to please someone else? Not sure that's a message I'd want my kids to hear.
SHOO BOP! 2008-05-07
What american would not love JOHN TRAVLOTA and OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN in "GREASE"!! When I first saw this movie I was only a kid and I knew all the songs and I actually thought high school was gonna be like RYDELL HIGH!
One of my all time favorites 2008-04-22
30 years and I never seem to get tired of this movie. This movie inspired so many plain Janes and the soundtrack is just good fun to sing a long to. John Travolta was handsome and cool and Olivia Newton John was just adorable. Rah. Rah. Rydel High!!!
music quality lacks 2008-03-28
Well of course Grease is a great movie, so no probs there... But when it gets to a song, it sounds like a bad studio recorded version-- so you're somewhat taken out of the moment/magic of the movie. Maybe it was hard to convert to a DVD??
