Discussion

RAS Same! I never could stand the movie and honestly I don't get why it's so popular

Melanie Weight Yah it’s terrible. I used to watch all the time as a kid and when I watched it as an adult I was like what?!?

Jenny Brown The creators excuse was that at the time there where tons of films where the man had to change for the woman( e.g bad boy reforms movies)and in some versions of the play they drop hints that sandy may have wanted the change even without the other girls teasing her and her boyfriend being kinda a dick but even considering all this it still comes across as one sided sandy gives up her reputation possibly stable future along with her health and the changes that johnny makes are less negative

Ella Same. My friend lives this movie but I just don’t understand why?? All the messages are just wrong. It basically implies that if you didn’t smoke, have sex, and flunk school then you weren’t ever going to get the guy. It’s just all wrong 😑.

Marsh I dislike almost everyone in this movie most of the time (‘did she put up a fight’ is particularly yikes). Rizzo is somewhat sympathetic. But yeah as soon as she changed her look for him, he ditched his new look. There’s no guarantee that he wouldn’t ditch her again when he got bored of the new façade or aged out of his rebellious teen phase.

Alex Paul I loved this movie as a kid, but as I grew up I realized how toxic the entire story is. I still sing the music whenever it comes on because I still know nearly every word to the entire soundtrack, but I don't think I can ever re-watch it.

Grace I've never even seen the movie. Something about the girl chasing the guy and giving up herself in the process doesn't intrigue me. Also just not a fan of singing in movies in general.

Laura Bracken Totally agree. Love the music; hate the message. I do watch and read a lot of media that doesn't stand the test of time for reasons like this.

Linda Kelly I didn’t see it this way. They were still the same people in the end. They simply compromised a bit. He once thought he was too cool to be a jock and she was miss goodie two shoes. They met in the middle. Compromise is important in relationships.