Staying Alive
It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenge yet, succeeding as a dancer on the Broadway stage. Manero lands a part as a backup dancer and falls back into old habits as he lusts after Broadway bad girl Laura (Finola Hughes).
8 July 1928, New York City, New York, USA
August 19, 1964 in Sweden
20 April 1953, Brooklyn, New York, USA
7 June 1921, Chicago, Illinois, USA
21 November 1956, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
24 August 1952, Los Angeles, California, USA
11 December 1955
3 July 1943, New Lisbon, Wisconsin, USA
26 December 1957
20 January 1920, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
February 25, 2009
It all amounts to an embarrassing show of unrestrained, Hollywood-style egomania.
October 24, 2008
The bottom line is that Staying Alive is nowhere as good as its 1977 predecessor, Saturday Night Fever.
July 24, 2014
It is a movie caught in a time warp: a slick MTV video that celebrates Eisenhower-era morality. For the Staying Alive audience, the problem is staying awake.
October 25, 2007
If not quite one of the worst sequels ever made, it's near the top of the list of all-time most disappointing sequels. Writer-director Stallone stupidly attempts to turn Tony Manero into a dancing Rocky.
July 24, 2014
Not quite a career low for John Travolta -- Two of a Kind was still to come -- but one he nevertheless would probably love to forget.
July 24, 2014
As always Travolta is urban gorgeous and very charming. The rest of the film is neither.
June 24, 2006
All could be forgiven if it weren't for the soulless overall slickness.
February 25, 2009
Tracking Travolta's adventures as he gets to perform on Broadway and falls in and out of love, director Stallone is in his mindless mode when it comes to characterization.
August 30, 2004
A sequel with no understanding of what made its predecessor work.
October 15, 2004
Was this sequel really necessary? Nope.
October 23, 2004
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.
