It is a love story. Danny cares about Sandy. Sandy cares about Danny. Whatever “changes” they made they did to make the other one happy. Let’s call the cops.
EXACTLY my point. They weren’t “good enough” as they really were.
If our kids came home and said they needed to throw their values out the door to make a love interest happy, I think most of us would cry foul. Wrap it up with bouncy music and good choreography, and it’s all good. Pfffft.
By the way, I read that Sandy later developed fatal lung cancer. Thanks a lot, Danny. 
No. Come on. I think you are trying to pull my leg for some reason. Out of 1,000 people waking out of the movie theater if one of them walked away thinking Sandy wasn’t true to herself at the end I would be shocked and if that person was my date for that evening there would not be a second date. Sandy is alive and well stop reading the national enquirer. 
There are a whole lot of hits on Google about the darker themes of this movie. I’m certainly not the only one who saw it this way. And I couldn’t care less if there wouldn’t be a second date.
You sure are taking the fact that a person on CC didn’t love your bestest movie way too seriously. At the end of the day, it’s a MOVIE. I didn’t care for some of it. Big deal. I didn’t like La La Land all that much, either. Apparently, that’s not the norm either.
Oh, and at the risk of violating HIPAA, I actually know Sandy came to a bad end. I’m a nurse in the ICU, so I have insider knowledge.
Man, it was tragic. What a horrible way to go. Poor Sandy…Luckily her second husband was by her side every minute. Her son, born six months after Sandy and Danny married, said he wasn’t very close to his Dad and didn’t know how to get a hold of him to give him the bad news. Last he heard, his Dad and wife #4 were living somewhere outside of Reno in his camper.
I actually saw several hits on Google where fans speculate about what happens to Sandy and Danny. Most of them involve a very large “preemie” and a divorce down the line. Lol.
I put a :-).
And I wasn’t talking about you regarding a second date.
You can like or not like whatever you want. I don’t detect a shred of darker themes in this movie but like you said no big deal.
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That link is funny, @Nrdsb4. Is it possible you secretly love the movie? That link is pointing out the movies shortcomings in a very loving way I do not think you would disagree with that.
Never heard about all the theories that Sandy was dead and dreaming the whole thing. Also, never met a guy who didn’t enthusiastically approve of Sandy at the end. A good girl gone bad. That is not wrong.
All I can say is that I went on a first date with a guy in 1978 and saw Grease. We have now been married for 36+ years
Never saw Grease All The Way Through though my 5th grade class did act it out on stage for an elementary schoolwide event.
I was one of the background characters who accidentally stole the show near the very end after tripping on my dance partner’s feet which sent me flying into three other couples in such a manner that if it was a bowling game and I was the ball, it’d be a near perfect strike.
No one was hurt and it got a few laughs from the supportive audience, but the teacher in charge of the productions was steamed.
Especially after the principal and other teachers put the kibbosh on his idea of mandating in-class detention for the rest of the semester for what happened. 
I sat through both showings one evening with a girl who went on to finish top 5 in Miss Teen NY. We hardly watched it. I always have good memories when I see the movie.
Maybe Eugene as my Grease character was a bit of an exaggeration.
I think “the chicks will cream” when they see a fast car is a bigger exaggeration.
Sandy with a lot of Rizzo thrown in.
^^^^Same^^^^
At the risk of being slammed here—I performed in the show as a kid and i have always enjoyed watching the movie, with greater appreciation for Rizzo (and Stockard Channing) every time I watch it–the ending always bothered me.
Yes, Danny was trying to change too, by joining the track team and earning a varsity sweater, but as soon as Sandy comes out with the cigarette and high heels the sweater is tossed aside like it meant nothing and he was only pretending to “change”. Sandy is the one who has to commit to her new identity, and I’m not sure it is a change for the better. I mean, she is obviously trying on a costume as well (she needs help on how to put the cigarette with her shoe for heaven’s sake), but hey, Danny likes it so who cares if she is compromising herself?
Maybe she would have liked him better in the varsity sweater. Maybe he is the one who has to grow up and mature.
And yes, I realize it is just a movie.
^I think the reason they had Sandy do all the changes is that her changes were the “cool” ones, at least to teenagers. Danny were kind of nerdy.
The ending bothered you how? Why? Because Sandy changed to make Danny happy? Isn’t that what people in love do for their partners? Yes, it was a movie not a political statement. It was a movie about teens in the 50’s or 60’s when male & female roles were more defined. But, of course, let’s not enjoy it because 60 years later it wouldn’t be politically correct for Sandy to dress like a bad girl? Is that where you want to go with this? There is a reason why some people chafe at PC gone amok and that would be exhibit 135B.
I’d hope not. I’d hope anyone could enjoy the movie and the numerous stage plays because the music is excellent the characters are well drawn and what the heck it was a really fun movie. I’d really hope people wouldn’t find flaws in everything. Maybe we should just dig holes in the dirt and lie in them so as not to offend anyone. Humor and, in some cases stereotyping, is based on exposing truths even if those truths sometimes push boundaries. Stated another way, SNL skits are much funnier when the writers and actors aren’t worried about who they offend.
My daughter played Sandy in a school performance, and I have to say that I never liked the ending either. And after seeing the live TV performance recently, I still feel the same way–and also feel that Danny has essentially no redeeming qualities, at least in that portrayal.
I like the theory that Sandy actually drowned at the beach at the beginning of the song and apparently culminates in the ending of them flying up to heaven in their convertible.
I was also in Grease in High School. I thought she was much prettier in her yellow sweater than that black spandex thing.
Um, I think I said I still enjoyed the movie as a piece of entertainment. And no, I did not completely shed my identity for my husband. He didn’t either. We like each other as is.
Maybe because growing up I identified more as Sandy as she was in the beginning of the movie ( a “good” girl, kind of shy and cautious and nerdy), I was disappointed that she couldn’t stay that way and still get to have a “happy” ending.
And I felt like this from the first time I saw it, which was probably 1980 or so. I was 10. I didn’t know what “liberal PC gone amok” was.
Whatever. It is honestly how I felt and still feel a little bit every time I see it.
I guess I was right I was going to get slammed!
Wouldn’t let me edit to add the smiley face. 