The Michigan Daily-Saturday, June 19, 1982-Pbge 11
Carr's 'Grease 2' gets panned
By Mark Vaitkus
I LOVED Grease 2. It was so awful
that maybe now Allan Carr will be
forced to stop producing musicals. And
that, needless to say, would truly be a
service to mankind.
You would think that he would have
learned his lesson with Can't Stop the
Music,- a movie the mere mention of
which still makes me reconsider lunch.
But Carr actually outdoes himself with
Grease 2. I'll admit that casting Valerie
Perrine, Bruce Jenner, and the Village
People all in Can't Stop was a little
kinky, but it's nothing compared to the
perversions found in Carr's revisit to
Rydell High.
As the movie opens, we find that
Rydell High has degenerated to the
point of total anarchy. Now I have
nothing against anarchy as long as it's
done with good taste. But when you
start bringing nuns into the picture who
want to "score tonight" and have
students gleefully singing about poking
each other's stamens with their pistils,
I would tend to say that good taste is a
somewhat distant concern.
In any event, even bad taste is no ex-
cuse for a producer failing to include
things like characters and a plot.
Everyone in this movie looks and acts
exactly the same, sort of like
psychedelic versions of Henry Winkler
and Suzanne Somers.
The really scary people in this film
aren't the kids (who have no parents or
homes), or even the big bad non-student
bikers. It's the teachers. You'd be
scared too if the smartest teacher at
your school were Connie Stevens. Add
Sid Caesar, Tab Hunter, and Didi Conn,
and you have the kind of staff that is
hard to envision even under
Reaganomics. smell of money, but one which also
Eve Arden as the principal manages wishes that a completely decadent
to exhibit a canned look of chagrin now Rydell High really did exist. For if it
and again at the proceedings, but it's all did, Carr too could be cool and tough
too clear that what she really wants is and have a Pink Lady of his very own.
to be a hood and let her libido run free What is more, he could be totally con-
too. Therefore she could care less about sumed by what Grease 2 tells us should
the lack of discipline and nonexistent be the greatest goal of all-to win a
classes, as long as she can watch the T- complete set of Roy Orbison albums.
Birds (or "T-Bones" as she revealingly
prefers to call them) spend the entire This review is the winner of the
school year preparing for her seedy hastily organized 'Pan Grease 2'
talent show and luau.
contest. The critic, Mark Vaitkus, a
Ultimately we must come back to graduate student in sociology, has
assess the kind of mind which could the rare and happy opportunity to
bring such an abomination as Grease 2 see his name in print as his prize.
to life, the mind of Allan Carr. To be
sure, it is a mind which weakens to the Thanks, Mark.
Urease Z'
... perversions at Rydell High
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