best movie i've ever seen.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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.

Under the direction of gifted film maker Sylvester Stallone, John Travolta gives what is arguably one of his finest performances, one that is indeed more polished than that given in the original Saturday Night Fever. In this underrated sequel, Travolta's character has more depth and humanity and stunning realism. The look of the film is truly splendid and Stallone captures an environment of incredible sexual tension as well as artistic mystery. The Manhattan locations are glamorous yet stark, threatening and inviting, and photographed stylishly. Staying Alive is much more than a sequel and is a magnificent stand alone story of a young man challenging himself to succeed and to make his dreams come true through dance.

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.

Absolutely brilliant film! In my opinion it is better than its prequel, Saturday Night Fever. John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes and Finola Hughes are stunning dancers. It gives viewers a look behind the scenes of a musical. It is wonderfully intense and passionate. There is also a sense of satisfaction seeing Tony, the Brooklyn boy, make it to Broadway and still be the same strutting man. Overall, really brilliant film but nothing like its prequel, so don't watch it expecting more of the same, it gives a completely different taste and flavour. Very fun movie, well worth a watch.