Looper has named Grease, the 1978 musical starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, on its list of “5 Classic Family Movies That Are Unwatchable Today,” published Sept. 21.
Writer Nina Starner described the five picks as “borderline unwatchable when you think about them for more than a few minutes or apply even the slightest amount of scrutiny.”
Her entry on Grease is gentler than the list’s title. “‘Grease’ is a ton of fun, but it’s also a movie that gives you quite a bit of pause during a rewatch,” Starner wrote.
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The first is a line in the song about Danny and Sandy’s summer romance, in which Danny is asked whether Sandy “put up a fight.” Looper called it “a joke about sexual assault.”
Starner also cited Rizzo’s pregnancy scare storyline with Kenickie, and the finale, in which “Sandy changes everything about herself for a man.”
She questioned the age of the students as well, naming Kenickie and Sonny as “the worst offenders.” Stockard Channing, who played…