Staying Alive Reviews
Film4
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.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
It all amounts to an embarrassing show of unrestrained, Hollywood-style egomania.
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| Original Score: 0/4
Top CriticThe bottom line is that Staying Alive is nowhere as good as its 1977 predecessor, Saturday Night Fever.
FulvueDrive-in.com
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.
| Original Score: 2/10
All could be forgiven if it weren't for the soulless overall slickness.
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.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Kansas City Kansan
Was this sequel really necessary? Nope.
| Original Score: 2/5
A sequel with no understanding of what made its predecessor work.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Juicy Cerebellum
Saturday Night Fever through the eyes of Stallone.
| Original Score: 2/5
Apollo Guide
So horrific are the musical sequences in this movie that you'll swear you were having nightmares directed by Satan himself.
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| Original Score: 29/100
Movie Eye
More like staying dead...a monotonous and unnecessary sequel that has all the grace and flow of a greased hog on rollerskates
| Original Score: 2/5
Hollywood Bitchslap
The words 'directed by Sylvester Stallone' say it all.
| Original Score: 1/5
BBC
This film constantly falls flat on its face.
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| Original Score: 2/5
