to not really like any of the characters in Grease?

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I love the music, but think they're a thoroughly unlikeable group of people!

They're all are insecure and bitchy, and spend all their time trying to impress their friends. Sandy isn't I suppose, but she shouldn't have gone back to Danny and then changed for him like she did.

Frenchy's the easiest to like imo, and she's not exactly sensible...

blanche... were those really the lyrics? Wow! We used to sing it in the playground at school and I think we just made them up, definitely didn't sing those...

I really like Marty, loved Coach Calhoun - hated Patty!

Reminiscing now...

Kenickie's nice. Nice but dim, admittedly.

YY Sandy changed for Danny. That is a no-no. She should have gone back to Oz and found a nice boy. But saying that quite what she was up to getting friendly down in the sand I dread to think.

And they are all ancient, playing schoolkids.

I like the headmistress's assistant, the one with the xylophone.

Danny changed for Sandy too.

hate the lyrics, hate the songs,(except the title track) hate the fact its supposed to be high school and everyones in their 30's, its rude and little girls love singing the songs.

give me high school musical any day. yes its sappy but at least its a proper kids/family film!

Some sad things have happened to the cast.
Danny (John Travolta) had an autistic son who died.
Kenickie (Jeff Conway) had a alcohol and drug problem that led to his death.
Sandy(Olivia Newton John) Has had breast cancer also her long term partner 'disappeared' presumed dead (later found alive and well)
Leo/crater face (Dennis Stewart) Died from Aids.

Danny changed for Sandy too. Didn't he buy a cardigan?

Stockard Channing is amazing in everything she does.

And what kind of brave parents must she have had to name her Stockard! Not a usual entry on the Baby Names boards I would guess.

Grease is massively sexist and sends an awful message to teenage girls. However it is very good at capturing the teenage zeitgeist of middle American high school and the cross section of teens is not something you find anywhere other than the melting pot of America.

Going by the characters' names:

Sandy Olsson - White Australian, probably Swedish descent
Danny Zuko - Hungarian
Rizzo - Italian American
Kenickie - probably Polish or German
Etc.

Good point Kim.

The bit in the film that grates my carrot is when the car takes off at the end. Wht oh why oh why does the car do that?

The Headmistress is fantastic - perfect death stare, wonderfully withering tone...I aspire to be her

hearts her stage name is Stockard Channing, her parents called her Susan Stockard. :)

I love Rizzo, beautifully acted too.

Hearts, I always assumed it was Danny zucco - Italian. But maybe that's an invented pronunciation.
I hated the fact that the 'fat' girl was never fat. Stupid.

It is sad to think so many of the cast have died as it doesn't feel that long ago it was on.

Stockard Channing was 34 when she played Rizzo.

I love grease.

You'll be slagging off Dirty Dancing next.

Rizzo was awesomely feminist. I love her line 'I'm going to get my kicks while I'm still young enough to get them' and her song is amazing.

Who was the fat girl? I must have missed that.

Jan. Allegedly. She must have been all of a size 12! She liked apple pie, so clearly she was obese.

People were on the whole thinner back in the 50s though. Jan was probably relatively 'fat'.

I adore Rizzo. For my last birthday we did a Grease bar-crawl - and Rizzo is just so easy to dress up as.

Plus her song, as others have mentioned, is the best in the whole film.

But yes, the way Sandy changes for Danny is hugely sexist. I was surprised, when I found out it came out in the 70s (after the whole feminist movement) that this didn't become more of an issue.

Cha cha di Gregorio was amazing too...

The dancing is pretty amazing at that ball.