Frankly I'm very annoyed at the latest promotions to push "Grease" as the original "High School Musical." While it is true in a sense that this was a hit movie musical about high school students, "Grease" is a wonderful musical masterpiece with amazing dance and singing numbers, catchy tunes, and a story that's pretty trite but otherwise simple enough to sit and enjoy for its lightweight emotional fodder while Disney's high profile movie was just a fad for tweens between naps at grade school. "Grease" is one of the last of its kind, a musical that continues to be relevant and masterfully splices in its numbers in to its narrative with smooth precision to where it flows naturally within the scope of the characters and conveys their sadness and joy. Even the best modern musicals can't fit the musical interludes too well but "Grease" has no trouble with it because every song is a reflection of our characters emotions. Set in a sixties high school at the beginning of the new school year, Brit Sandy has just come in to town to attend Rydell High.

With a fast pacing and charming energy to it, "Grease" is a masterpiece of musical cinema, a high impulse romp that recollects a time of simple pop music that is used as a key to mirror what our characters are feeling toward one another. "Grease" hasn't aged a bit and is that one movie that simply can not be remade in spite of the fact that it's been copied for literally years even suffering a painfully mediocre and unnecessary sequel. "Grease" has some of the most incredible numbers of all time from the intense "Hand Jive" number where out entire cast is in full force dancing and battling one another and facing off in the heat of the moment, and of course "Greased Lightning," one in a variety of songs that spotlight the insane appeal of John Travolta, a man who was a pure force of nature in his decade. While historians have claimed that the off-Broadway play was originally very raunchy, director Randal Kleiser manages to sneak in as many double entendres and innuendos as humanly possible making it enjoyable both for adults and children alike. When I was a kid we'd see this movie about three times a day every day for months and memorized all of the dance moves and lyrics.

With the musical genre losing its relevance in modern film, "Grease" is one of the last in a golden decade of an innocent time where musicals were cinematic operas invoking human emotions, pain, joy, and excitement and "Grease" is a film that's immortal for its unbridled enthusiasm and top notch production that makes it arguably the best musical ever made.