Saturday Night Fever
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VHS Movie Reviews of Saturday Night Fever
Movie Review: This is a classic
Summary: 4 Stars
Disco dancing! John Travolta doing Danny Tario's moves. This is burned in the consciousness of anybody over the age of 12 in 1979. Travolta was so cute back then (and he's still dancing!). Yes, it may be cheesy, but the 70's were cheesy - and I miss them!Movie Review: Travolta's Defining Role!
Summary: 5 Stars
Tony Manero (played brilliantly by John Travolta) is a 20 year old paint shop assistant living with his devout Catholic mom and his hard working dad. He doesn't get along very well with them. There are a lot of tense moments at the dinner table.
But on the weekends, Tony rules the disco! But this dancing champion of the New York disco scene needs to learn about how to treat other people like champions. He talks sassy to his mom, and he treats females with disrespect. He even blows off and ignores a friend who admires him and needs him most (the boy who commits suicide by jumping off the Verrazano Bridge).
But Tony starts to change when he meets a slightly older and more mature disco queen. He learns from her that treating people with respect is just as important as being good at what you do.
All the while, the movie is propelled by one of the greatest soundtracks in movie history, certainly the best disco album ever assembled. You also get a look at one segment of the late 1970s New York youth culture scene.
The movie still hits hard after 30 years.
Movie Review: Dance the night away
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is about a man and a woman, in the prime of their lives fighting the New york city meat grinder. They both find one another in a smoke filled bar and lit dance floor.They equally appreciate glances as one impresses the other on the dance floor. In the sounds of the legendary "Bee Gees" you find your self dancing your imagination away as the leading actors fight against each others impossible love that will never happen. Both actors find resolve in dance, and agree to be friends in the crazy world that is entertainment.Movie Review: TRAVOLTA CARRIES THIS MOVIE!
Summary: 3 Stars
Like another reviewer said, I too grew up hating this film. I was a young teen and a rocker and would not be caught dead watching this film. I have seen it many times now and I think it captures that 70's disco time period perfectly. Travolta is the whole show and of course the classic music soundtrack. The DVD has a good transfer and weak extras.Movie Review: Classic film about the 1970s, filmed in the 1970s...
Summary: 5 Stars
I had watched "Summer of Sam" not that long ago, and it seems like they tried to cram too many characters into this one neighborhood block. "Lords of Flatbush" also sprung to mind..this could've been one of their kids 20 years later.
Getting past the music, this is a downbeat film about people who live their boring lives to rule the night, some people who don't want to move on, others who want to get the hell out of there.
The people are portrayed as average joes, unsophisticated,the language is shocking by PC standards, sexual and vulgar. Travolta's Tony kind of reminds me of Tony from "West Side Story", someone who is a reluctant leader, only because they're the smartest out of the group. When he's on the dance floor, he is in his element.
I think that the people who hated disco at this time and the parodies that followed didn't give this film a chance, and the cut version really neutered it, but watching it uncut, it's a working class love story without turning into a chick flick.
They made a sequel but it was more over the top than gritty. Hopefully Travolta can return to being Tony one more time the way Stallone wound up Rocky's character.