After hearing Gene Siskel say she was "pretty but not much more than that," Michelle Pfeiffer retired from acting and was never seen or heard from again.
@@75aces97 - She could have been really good in the right role... something like... the sharp-witted wife of a gangster, or... I don't know, maybe a villain! I'm just spitballing ideas here. We all know that wouldn't happen!
@@crazyrabbits In all seriousness I've read many critics (not these two) who regarded it as some sort of miracle when Scorsese got a terrific performance out of her, as in Age of Innocence, and I don't know wth they're talking about. I thought she was great in Fabulous Baker Boys and Wolf. Not that those were great movies, but she made them worthwhile. An actor can only do so much with mediocre material.
Actually, you may be thinking of Maxwell Caulfield, a rising British Broadway star who fell right off the map after this sequel bombed. Pfeiffer, on the other hand, shot to stardom with a supporting role in _Scarface_ the next year and became a leading Hollywood actress throughout the mid-to-late 1980s and into the 1990s. More recently, she was seen in the 2017 remake of _Murder on the Orient Express_ and the Marvel Cinematic Universe entry _Ant-Man and the Wasp._
@@jessecoffey4737 Maxwell went on to Dynasty, the BIGGEST TV show in the world in the 80s and it's spinoff show, The Colby's. He hardly fell off the map, of course Michelle had a HUGE career
I didn't know they started out on Sneak Previews until these videos popped up here. The first I heard of S&E was on their own syndicated show. By the time I started watching Sneak Previews it was Michael Medved and I think Jeffrey Lyons.
@@monte68x okay then. It must have been Lyons and Gabler. SP aired at like 10 PM Saturdays on PBS, and the first one I can remember seeing included Terms of Endearment review and whatever else came out that week.
I still like singing “Back to School Again”, “Prowlin”, “We’re Gonna Score” and “We’ll Be Together (Always Together)”, in this one. The rest of the movie had other songs that I never recognized much.
Siskel and ebert are right it is a bad sequel to great movie. I can't remember any songs to this film. Like first one I remember a lot of songs Sandy, summer lovin, greased lighting, your the one that love. Grease is the word.
Well, I do often like playing the songs “Back to School Again”, “Prowlin’”, and “We’ll Be Together”, though, but yeah, they aren’t as memorable as those songs, since many of them have won certain nominations and awards, etc.
Their were several original cast members from Grease 1 that were in 2, like Didi Cohn (Frenchy), that Coach, that nerd Eugene, The Principal McGee and her secretary Blanche.
My parents won this double-LP soundtrack at the roller rink (i think?) and we listened to it CONSTANTLY on our massive console stereo--the couch-length record player that looked like the love-child of a buffet and a television. Then the movie came on HBO like twice a day for 6 months, so my brother and i can still quote every word and sing every song, complete with choreography. (You can laugh, but we were Mormon and I was 6 years old--we felt absolutely NAUGHTY and SUBVERSIVE for watching songs like "Score Tonight," "Do It for our Country," and "Reproduction." It was downright dirty to us... so of course we consumed it voraciously.) :) I still listen to this soundtrack, and i swear it picks me right up if i've been kind of 'blah' for a while. It's just so compellingly cheerful!! (and Michelle Pfeiffer was HOTT!) (and if you think she can't sing, try singing "Cool Rider" all the way through. She maybe wasn't next-level, but she nailed that one.) I guess it's not my guiltiest pleasure, but it's definitely on that list. :)
Another fun musical that I enjoy very much. It may not be as good as the first GREASE but it still a fun catchy film with alot of likeable new characters as well as many familiar favorites that return from the first film. Grease 2 is a guilty pleasure of mine and it still feels very much part of the GREASE universe. The first GREASE is STILL the WORD!
The only thing I liked about the original 'Grease', was the title track. I don't think I ever bothered to see 'Grease 2'.....but HAVE watched that gawdawful video of 'Cool Rider' a few times.
There was this kid in our neighborhood who used to walk around his front porch stark naked, eating pickles and singing "Let's Bowl, Let's Bowl, Let's Rock n Roll!" At the top of his lungs.
Not really but when the first movie makes so much money from its actual budget, Hollywood is always like, let's make a sequel. It was a bit alright with me, but it ain't like the original.
The soundtrack still puts a childish-gleeful grin on my face. We'd recorded it (on Betamax!) from HBO, and my brother and I must've watched it 200 times that year alone. We'd quote the entire movie, beginning to end, during family road trips to Utah. (4 days driving thru the desert in that sun--we maybe quoted it because we were delirious) :O But I've always wondered if anybody else binged it like we did... It makes me smile to know there's another one of us :)
Grease 2 really was a complete mess and an unworthy sequel to the original Grease, but I have to admit the only memorable songs I found in this one, was "Back to School Again", “Prowlin”, "We're Gonna Score Tonight", “Cool Rider”, and "We'll Be Together (Always Together)". Just because those were somewhat memorable, it does NOT equal the admiration we all had, when we enjoyed watching the 1978 Grease. After all, would it ever be worth it, by seeing Maxwell and Michelle sing "Summer Nights" and "You're the One that I Want", together? Maybe, but John and Olivia, will always win our hearts, with their performances for that film and for those songs (and yes, Stockard Channing's songs too).
Grease wasn't much better, the original film is too cheesy for my taste. You want a good Travolta flick from his 70's heyday? the original R rated version of Saturday Night Fever (not that watered down PG version) what a great movie, great dialogue, great music, enough drama with just enough of a tinge of humor to complement the drama.
I'mma just confess, Maxwell Caulfield was smoking hot to me. That poofy hair and mumbly-British accent with the build of a lightweight George Michael? Yes, please :)
The songs are totally forgettable. Infact, the whole film is forgotten. Why? Simple, the film does not work, at all. The original is brilliant, but this sequel should be locked in the vault. Thank goodness the original cast does not appear in this,accept for DIdi Conn. A wasted part.
I'm noticing that their Sneak Previews reviews contain more content. Since they didn't have to pause for commercials for the PBS show, they could do that.
Unpopular opinion, but I liked this one better than the original. For some people Grease wasn't just a movie or a Broadway musical, it was a life event. I only saw either of these on tv, but I saw the original as just a dopey musical with mostly awful songs. 2 was mostly more of that, but with lazier attention to time period and better gags. Well, funnier when I was 8 anyway.
