Review of Grease (1978) by Vincent Canby for The New York Times — 20 Mar 2004
GREASE is not really the 1950's teen-age movie musical it thinks it is, but a contemporary fantasy about a 1950's teen-age musical—a larger, funnier, wittier and more imaginative-than-Hollywood movie with a life that is all its own.
It uses the Eisenhower era — the characters, costumes, gestures and particularly, the music—to create a time and place that have less to do with any real 50's than with a kind of show business that is both timeless and old-fashioned, both sentimental and wise.
The movie is also terrific fun.
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This review of Grease (1978) was written by Vincent Canby and published by The New York Times on 20 Mar 2004.
Grease has generally received very positive reviews.
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