Grease 2
reviews at screenselect UK
-This is the story of Rydell High School some years on from those halcyon days of drainpipe trousers and stiff petticoats. The problem is that director/choreographer Patricia Birch tries to bring those high steppin', arm-waving innocent production values to an altogether grittier era of emerging 1960s liberalism.
-I actually enjoyed this one more than Grease, which admittedly was a better film. It needs to be seen for what it is a low budget rip-off of a classic cinematic event !! It is pure camp class.

what made Grease 1 a finer movie? acting, dancing, higher budget?
Olivia Newton John and Travolta dancing together- - -

Grease (1978) imdb
Grease 2 (1982)-This movie is appalling in nearly every respect, but there's just something about it--perhaps how brazenly appalling it is--that gives it an almost hypnotic fascination.
what specifically is appalling (and not so in Gr 1)?
As for the sets… I don't think I've ever seen such low production values in a movie released by a major studio. ok. does that show up as... cheap-looking? fake? (but they're all about to break into major song and dance moments, so why have the scene look realistic?)
I love how the producers made only the most surface-level attempt to even appear 50s. The clothes, hairstyles, sets songs, and ways of speaking all scream 80s. kinda great. 80s piece as a.
I haven't the slightest idea why they decided to dress Michelle Pheiffer in things that essentially look like sweatshirts for the first half of the movie. And she's got on those huge dark glasses all the time… making her look like early Debbie Harry. she looks Cooool.