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.
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Stars: John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes.
Sharee Lane ... dance consultant
Dennon Rawles ... choreographer
Sayhber Rawles ... choreographer
Watched online, ok print.
17 songs in the Soundtracks, some by the BeeGees, some by Frank Stallone & more.
Rated 4.5 by 12.8k+ IMDb voters.
If Travolta could really dance the lead in a B'way show, they should not have used editing as the primary choreographer. This was highly cut, with some slo-mo, and really felt like they were covering for the non-pro dancing status of the leads (JT & FH, although her IMDb bio says she was in the original West End cast of Cats). And the film is really only about the dancing: auditioning, rehearsing, performing. The way it's presented, the B'way show is only dance. (Of course, we don't see the whole show, but no dialog, no singing were shown at all.)
The only non-dance aspect of the film is the triangle of JT wanting FH, landing her, losing her, all while keeping CR on a string. FH is a moneyed girl already successful dancing. CR's in the chorus. The love triangle is a snooze.
This felt very long, because not much happens except sweat. JT was in very good shape.
Paramount & more, dir. Stallone; 6
