The temptation to go with the bloodbath that was Carrie was overwhelming.
However, that was more creepy than magical. I'm gonna say no.
For a near perfect, romantic evening, nobody does it better than Disney. Cinderella
and Beauty and the Beast had the biggest, best balls (heh). But, since
high school was not involved, these cannot be considered proms, and must therefore
be disqualified, which kind of sucks.
Footloose was good and Grease was better.
But Grease 2, a film which Michelle Pfeiffer wishes I would forget
about once and for all, is my hands-down winner, for the following reasons:
It was a Rock-a-Hula-Luau. Prom plus tiki equals good times.
Everyone finds out that the Cool Rider is still alive after all. Which means
that
holy crap, he made that jump, which means he's a better motorcyclist
than all of the T-Birds combined.
Stephanie can stop being a 1960s Emo Girl now.
The Cool Rider takes off his Cool Riding goggles, revealing himself to be
Michael, the dorky British kid, and why no one figured this out beforehand,
considering the Cool Rider and Michael were the only two people in Rydell
High School Land with British accents, and they were never in the same place
at the same time, is just hysterically funny to me.
The T-Birds give Michael a T-Bird jacket, so now it's okay for Stephanie,
a Pink Lady, to be in love with him. This is patent crap, but it's so much
fun to look back on and laugh, once one has been out of high school long enough
for the pain of not-belonging to have worn down. (It never wears off completely,
just in case any of you cool people are looking in on me right now.)
Stephanie and Michael make out in front of everybody and sing a duet, not
too terribly, but pretty well out of Michelle Pfeiffer's singing range.
The rest of the duet consists of some really questionable and completely
unromantic exchanges between some of the other students, but the singing improves,
so we'll allow it.http://youtube.com/watch?v=WXxFoDEfSCk.
I'm not embedding it, but it's worth a listen and a chuckle. Lock up your
dogs, if you don't want them to howl along.
Grease 2. Sorry, Ms. Pfeiffer. Awesomest prom scene ever.
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