Rotten
As always Travolta is urban gorgeous and very charming. The rest of the film is neither.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Staying Alive
Tony Manero knows the old days are over. But nobody's gonna tell him he can't feel that good again.
1983 · 1h 36m · PG
Drama, Music
Directed by
Sylvester Stallone
Overview
It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Rotten
The bottom line is that Staying Alive is nowhere as good as its 1977 predecessor, Saturday Night Fever.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
All could be forgiven if it weren't for the soulless overall slickness.
Steve Grant, Time Out
Rotten
A slick, commercial cinematic jukebox, a series of self-contained song-and-dance sequences that could be cut apart and played forever on MTV -- which is probably what will happen.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
A sequel with no understanding of what made its predecessor work.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
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Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Drama · Music · R
Tony spends his Saturdays at a disco where his stylish moves raise his popularity among the patrons. But his life outside the disco is not easy and things change when he gets attracted to Stephanie.
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Director
- John Badham
- Cast
- John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller
IMDb
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes
82%
Metacritic
77
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