But things don’t get truly disastrous until her duets with her co-star Maxwell Caulfield, who possesses neither the voice for the role nor, apparently, a sense of pitch. An early song, the atrocious Cool Rider, makes clear both her charms (funny and somehow sensual dance with a stepladder) and her vocal limitations. The Pat Benetar role is sung by the charming but vocally strained Michelle Pfeiffer, who is at least capable of communicating with her voice, even when the style of the songs doesn’t suit her reedy tone. And the cast is definitely doing their own singing. More damaging, the producers appear to have cast the film without regard to singing ability. Also like its progenitor, Grease 2 features a cast of teenagers portrayed by men and women in their 20’s and 30’s. It’s crassly manipulative, it’s incoherent, it’s undeniably stupid, and perhaps most offensively, it seems gleefully unaware of many of its own flaws.Īll of this makes it a good sequel, sharing all of these characteristics with its parent film. Hoping to turn this terrible film into a terrible franchise, a sequel was released a few years later, a sequel that, mercifully, bombed, and thus destroyed any future prospects for the terrible franchise.īy many standards of evaluation, Grease 2 is one of the worst films ever made. Once upon a time there was this terrible musical that was turned into a terrible film that rode the wave of nostalgia for 1950’s America into the theaters and straight to the bank.