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Title: Energetic high school musical set in the 1950s
Review: Remember those school productions of "Grease" - well this is the film that everyone remembers, based on the long-running Broadway show.The songs are deliberately cheesy, the acting over the top, the teenagers look about 30, but it's all pretty good fun.Comparing this to "High School Musical", which has real teenagers one realises that "Grease" is not about teenagers at all but a 1950s that probably never existed. Indeed "Grease" was part of the 1950s nostalgia phenomenon of the 1970s along with "Happy Days" and "American Graffiti" that continued with films such as "Back to the Future" and "Stand By Me" in the 1980s. America was harking back to a kinder, simpler, innocent era post-Vietnam, Civil Rights, and Watergate."Grease" still holds up as decent entertainment today.
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