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Why did this movie flop??

posted 16 years ago by happy_gurl_2003
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This movie was really good. It featured Maxwell Caulfield (who was SOOOO gorgeous and very sweet) as Michael Carrington...it had Michelle Phiefer who was beautiful and was just starting out in her now established career. It featured some good actors and some really great songs (Charades and Reproduction, anyone?) and some really fun dance numbers. So why did it flop? What happened? Why wasn't this movie more popular?

Can anyone shed some light? I wasn't even born when this movie came out, but saw it when I was about 10 or 11 and loved it.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

I've never heard anyone call the awful song "Charades" as being one of Grease 2's better numbers. The movie flopped because it was lifeless with a terrible script and awful songs (with a couple of exceptions). The actors are fine. It's not their fault. I saw it in the summer of '82 when it opened. Unlike my first viewing of Grease with an excited, packed audience, there were only about a dozen or so people for that screening of Grease 2. As a 12 year old, I was thoroughly disappointed. However, later some of my Gen X friends turned this into a cult movie we loved to watch just to make fun of it. However, in its initial run, bad word of mouth and terrible reviews killed it pretty quickly

[–] Jes' Sayin' (6360) a year ago

Musicals are judged by the quality of their songs, and here they were merely pedestrian, especially compared to the original.