Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

ally I personally liked this film, "Staying Alive" better than "Saturday Night Fever" the first movie. This film had better dancing and a more enjoyable story line. While the first movie is very good the second one surpasses the first. "Staying Alive" does not use offensive terms like in the first and there is no rape scene, which was much appreciated. I also like that John Travolta's character Tony redeems himself as a person and sees how he has been such a jerk. Would Recommend.

SnoopyStyle After 'Saturday Night Fever', Tony Manero (John Travolta) is in Manhattan failing to make it on Broadway. He scrapes by as a dance instructor and as a waiter. His supportive girlfriend Jackie (Cynthia Rhodes) works as an exercise instructor and as a back-up dancer in a Broadway extravaganza starring Laura (Finola Hughes). His flirtations gets him into Laura's bed but she drops him after the one time. Both Jackie and Tony get chorus dancer roles in Laura's next big role. He's still possessive of Jackie who finally has had enough of him. He walks home to visit his mother and has some personal growth.I remember liking this spandex cheestastic affair back when I was a kid. I didn't love it but the acting is so big and they seem to come out of the Solid Gold Dancers. The flaws become obvious pretty quickly as one grows up. Sylvester Stallone does his favorite story once again with the underdog making it to the top. The movie is betrayed by its vision of Broadway. It is all flash and no substance. It doesn't help that it's terribly dated. Although even back then, it is overwrought without real drama. I think Stallone tried to transfer Rocky to Tony and failed to get his character.

Alexandra Mitchell First of all, the best way to most accurately judge this movie is to see it YEARS after having seen Saturday Night Fever. This movie stands alone VERY VERY WELL, the music (soundtrack) is FANTASTIC, the acting is great (seriously), and the humor (script) is SO under-appreciated!!! This is a SUPER great follow up story to Tony Manero's success in the Brooklyn dance clubs; it doesn't over-do his newfound "success" in Manhattan and it doesn't under-do it, either. It is SO REALISTIC. It is an honest to God SHAME that people talk so badly about this movie. THIS IS A GREAT MOVIE. The only sad thing about Staying Alive is to see John Travolta looking so incredibly fit and handsome and to see what he has become after all these years.... I swear, the man was an absolute perfect physical specimen (!) Not that I'm much of a Travolta fan... but just watch the movie -- look at him in the movie, then look at him now.... Now THAT's SAD, but Staying Alive is a GREAT MOVIE and should be watch and appreciated with a new eye by the millions of us whose lives were so changed and so uplifted by the phenomenon that was Saturday Night Fever.

Larry Cosgrove After reading countless raving or at least positive reviews for this film, I felt that I needed to air a sane opinion.I recently watched Staying Alive on a cable network, 32 years after its original debut. The same reasons why the movie did not work then are present now. It was dated (seemed worlds away from 1977 yet felt out of joint in 1983). The acting outside of John Travolta (who, give the evil his due, was excellent) was wooden. Finola Hughes and Cynthia Rhodes had zero chemistry with Travolta (oddly, Tony Manero's "fan club" had an excellent charge with John). Even the sorry "walk back to Brooklyn sequence" failed to stir a link to the previous Saturday Night Fever.Sum it up to bad writing, worse acting, and yes, awful direction. And when Frank Stallone has the best song in the soundtrack (Far From Over), you know you are in deep trouble. Staying Alive is not the worst flick that you will ever see. But it will leave the viewer to think what could have been if the ghosts of the Disco Era had truly been left behind. And, if Travolta had a better cast and script to work with.