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3->''Whoa whoa, I gotta go...Back to School...AGAIN!''
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5The new kid Michael is a nerd. A hopeless nerd! And furthermore, he's in love with Stephanie, who as a Pink Lady can only go with a T-Bird. Naturally, the solution is to find out what she wants in a man and become it, regardless of cost or effort. But Michael succeeds so wildly he ends up upstaging the T-Birds, impressing the whole school, and becoming so awesome that Stephanie [[{{Wangst}} starts to question]] whether she wouldn't rather just have the [[BeYourself normal, nerdy guy]] who keeps helping her with her essays. When Michael finally [[TheReveal reveals]] his [[BadassBookworm true identity]], he gets the girl and the acceptance he so craves. Hooray!
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7Even those who took [[Film/{{Grease}} the original]] seriously might have trouble with this one. Song topics include plant reproduction (which is really sex), going off to war to become a man (which is really sex), and the moral flexibility of the women one meets at the grocery store (which [[IntercourseWithYou isn't even disguised]]). Also features a talent-show act with [[FetishRetardant girls trying to act sexy while dressed as Christmas trees and jack-o'lanterns]], and [[InformedAttribute almost]] [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry every]] [[InformedFlaw instance]] of informed or [[DesignatedHero designated]] [[DesignatedVillain anything]].
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9This was Creator/MichellePfeiffer's break-out role, but the only other actors you will recognize are Creator/ChristopherMcDonald, [[Film/EmpireRecords Rex Manning]] as the male lead, Creator/PamelaAdlon, Creator/AdrianZmed, and the actors who reprised their roles from the first movie.
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11!!This provides examples of:
12* AdaptationTitleChange: The stage adaptation was called ''Cool Rider''.
13* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: "Cool Rider". Stephanie somehow resists the charms of the sweet British boy, because she's "...lookin' for a dream on a mean machine / With hell in his eyes / I want a devil in skin tight leather..."
14%% * BadassBiker: What Stephanie wants in a man, therefore Michael aims to become one.
15* BeYourself: Zig-Zagged. Michael isn't interesting to Stephanie as the bookish exchange student, but immediately catches her eye once he perfects his Cool Rider persona. But he quickly realizes that he doesn't want to form a relationship with her just by being mysterious. On Stephanie's end, she's not sure she wants to get together fully with "Cool Rider" herself since she doesn't know what he's like under his mask, and starts to find that she and Michael have more in common than they thought, and they start to get close. At the end, the moral's downplayed; Michael's happy he and Stephanie can just be themselves, but Stephanie admits she got the best of both worlds.
16* BlackSheep: Davey of the T-Birds. He rides on the sidecar of Goose's motorcycle. He is the only one of the T-Birds who does not have a girlfriend. Also, during the "Prowlin'" song, he is looking at the others as if he is looking for their approval. Davey is also the shortest of the T-Birds. He only gets a girlfriend at the end with becoming the boyfriend of Paulette's little sister.
17* BookDumb: The T-Birds, especially Louis when he states that he was unaware that the Roman Empire fell. Some of the Pink Ladies could be this as well.
18* BritishStuffiness: Michael comes to the first day of school with a suit. His dressing style becomes more casual as the movie progresses.
19* BoisterousWeakling: The T-Birds in the first movie were already pretty laughable [[BadButt Bad Butts]], but here they're nothing but tough-talking wimps who run away from any fight they might provoke.
20* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Frenchy disappears midway through the film, since by then the script was finished and the writers had decided Didi Conn's character should never have been in the film to begin with, only to use some of her scenes anyway in post.
21* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Unlike Sandy, Stephanie demonstrates sexual independence, and refuses to compromise her character just to impress a guy. Likewise, Michael is caring, bookish, and intelligent rather than a chauvinistic bully like Danny. By agreeing to write term papers for the T-Birds, Michael proves he is also willing to throw away his academic integrity for a girl.
22%% * CreatingLifeIsAwesome: "Reproduction" song during biology class.
23* CurseCutShort: During the "Prowlin'" song.
24--> ''DeMucci'': Well, I like a debutante, who comes across--now that's what I call class.
25--> ''Davey'': Well, I like a tall girl, with long legs that go right up to her...
26* DisneyAcidSequence: The "Turn Back the Hands of Time" number, which takes place when Stephanie apparently spaces out in the middle of the talent show and imagines singing a duet with the spirit of her MysteriousProtector in what we can only take to be Biker Heaven. Except that when Stephanie returns to reality at the end of the number, the audience is applauding and she's won the talent show, leaving us to wonder if they all somehow experienced the whole sequence with her. And, if not, then who was really singing the male part of the duet while she was tripping out?
27%% * DynamicEntry: Michael's appearance at the Bowl-a-Rama, at the start of "Who's That Guy?"
28%% * EvilCounterpart: Leo Balmudo to Johnny. Leo was also in the first Grease film. He was the leader of the Scorpions in the first film and are this trope respectively as the Cycle Lords to the T-Birds. They destroy many of the luau structures near the end of this film.
29%% * ExplosiveBreeder: The bunny that Louis holds during the "Reproduction" song.
30* {{Fanservice}}: Michael sports a leather jacket, halfway unzipped showing his chest. In the bowling musical number, Johnny also wears his shirt unbuttoned getting occasional nip slips. Yum.
31* ForbiddenFruit: Pink Ladies can only go with a T-Bird. Anyone else better not even look.
32* ForeignExchangeStudent: Michael who is from Britain and is the cousin of Sandy from the first movie who was from Australia.
33* ForeignRemake: The script was adapted into the Indian musical, ''Premaloka''.
34* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Foreground actually, but not the main focus. Right after Louis and Sharon sing to each other, during the cut to all the main characters dancing together. You can see Dolores grab Davey's ass and him move her hand up.
35%% * GreaserDelinquents: The T-Birds.
36%% * GuiltyPleasures: Wholly guilty.
37%% * ImAManICantHelpIt: The attitude of many of the men in the film.
38%% * IWantSong: "Cool Rider," complete with TitleDrop.
39%% * JewishAndNerdy: Eugene, who was also in the first film. Based on this, he must have been a sophomore in the first film.
40* LanguageBarrier: Eugene talks to Michael like they have one of these. Despite him being very smart and English.
41* {{Malaproper}}: Johnny Nogerelli, whose verbal garbling produces gems such as turning "menstruation" into "mentalstration".
42* MustNotDieAVirgin: Intentionally invoked and set to music, with the song "Let's Do It For Our Country". Louis brings Sharon down to the bomb shelter, where a confederate sounds the bomb siren to make her think it's TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Cue an incredibly {{Narm}}ful[[invoked]] song where she sings about volunteering for the war, contrasting with his rather less patriotic intentions. Then she realizes the siren has stopped, opens the shelter door, and trips over his friends listening at the door.
43%% * PinkMeansFeminine: The Pink Ladies
44* SecretIdentity: Michael masquerades as the Cool Rider in order to win over Stephanie's heart. His plan doesn't exactly go the way he intended though. Stephanie couldn't care less about Michael, but she falls head over heels for the Rider.
45%% * SecretIdentityIdentity: "Charades" is this trope in song.
46* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Michael and Johnny. Played with in that at first, ''neither'' guy holds Stephanie's interest, since Johnny is a chauvinistic boor and Michael is a nerd. Once Michael learns to ride a motorcycle (and loosens up a bit in the process), the combination of sensitive and manly-man traits proves to be what wins Stephanie over.
47* SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish: Michael is a straight A student from Britain. He helps the T-Birds with essays on The Fall of Rome and William the Conqueror. Michael also helps Stephanie with an essay on ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''. He is shown to be one of the only people paying attention in biology class.
48** It's also subverted by Stephanie; her essay shows that she actually understands the material as well as Michael, as he points out. She just lacks the vocabulary to express it in a way a teacher will accept, which is what Michael helps her with.
49%% * TheFifties: The feel of the film despite that it starts in 1961.
50%% * TheSixties: When the film actually takes place. It starts in 1961. Similar to ''Series/MadMen'', the early 1960s look and feel like the 1950s.
51%% * TagalongKid: Paulette's little sister Dolores.
52%% * TookALevelInBadass: Michael takes one. Naturally.
53%% * TwoTeacherSchool: Ms. Mason and Mr. Spears, who is then replaced by substitute teacher Mr. Stuart. There is also the secretary and the principal along with the gym teacher. There is also that female shop instructor who was in the first film but not in this one.

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