GREASE stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John turned down reprising their roles in the sequel because of a bad script, and yet they chose the bizarre TWO OF A KIND instead, a romantic comedy involving guardian angels...
Which include Charles Durning and Scatman Crothers who, to save Earth from God voiced by Gene Hackman, must prove that the randomly selected John Travolta, as a mob-debt bank robbing inventor, could risk everything for equally broke bank teller Olivia Newton-John, who pulls what Elliott Gould did to Christopher Plummer in THE SILENT PARTNER: keeping the money that he reportedly stole...
Yet the best scenes involve John and John before they fall in love, keeping desperate and busy in the desperately busy New York City, which isn't funny for a comedy but is entertaining, even adventurous as Travolta has a couple goons on his tail while she's dealing with a randy landlord and, in real life the Australian singer wanted to improve her acting chops so a drama workshop sequence is included -- and she absolutely nails it...
But halfway through the movie derails when... as fitfully cast Oliver Reed plays Old Scratch vs our heavenly hosts... the movie actually rewinds and fast-forwards, doubling and even tripling the often torturous run-time: yet when the couple (backed by Olivia's catchy TWIST OF FATE) become an actual couple, TWO OF A KIND regains for the suspenseful resolution to matter... just enough to forget all the stuff that's so farfetched it all seems normal, somehow.
Which include Charles Durning and Scatman Crothers who, to save Earth from God voiced by Gene Hackman, must prove that the randomly selected John Travolta, as a mob-debt bank robbing inventor, could risk everything for equally broke bank teller Olivia Newton-John, who pulls what Elliott Gould did to Christopher Plummer in THE SILENT PARTNER: keeping the money that he reportedly stole...
Yet the best scenes involve John and John before they fall in love, keeping desperate and busy in the desperately busy New York City, which isn't funny for a comedy but is entertaining, even adventurous as Travolta has a couple goons on his tail while she's dealing with a randy landlord and, in real life the Australian singer wanted to improve her acting chops so a drama workshop sequence is included -- and she absolutely nails it...
But halfway through the movie derails when... as fitfully cast Oliver Reed plays Old Scratch vs our heavenly hosts... the movie actually rewinds and fast-forwards, doubling and even tripling the often torturous run-time: yet when the couple (backed by Olivia's catchy TWIST OF FATE) become an actual couple, TWO OF A KIND regains for the suspenseful resolution to matter... just enough to forget all the stuff that's so farfetched it all seems normal, somehow.