Staying Alive (DVD)

Staying Alive. (Film Review Only).
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The Plot.
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After leaving Brooklyn far behind him, Tony Manero is still trying to seek his dream of becoming a famous Broadway Dancer. Now living and working in Manhattan, the film continues the story of Tony Manero and his struggles to try to become famous.

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...meet up again with Tony Manero (John Travolta) 5 years later, now living in Manhattan and working as a Dance Teacher at a nearby Dance School with his very close friend Jackie (Cynthia Rhodes). Tony is still desperately trying to make his name with a dancing career as he still has that fever burning deep inside him and he continues to hope to gain success in one of his many auditions, but with no joy. Tony still has that groovy walk and deep down ... more

Staying Alive. (Film Review Only).
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The Plot.
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After leaving Brooklyn far behind him, Tony Manero is still trying to seek his dream of becoming a famous Broadway Dancer. Now living and working in Manhattan, the film continues the story of Tony Manero and his struggles to try to become famous.

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The Storyline.
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We meet up again with Tony Manero (John Travolta) 5 years later, now living in Manhattan and working as a Dance Teacher at a nearby Dance School with his very close friend Jackie (Cynthia Rhodes). Tony is still desperately trying to make his name with a dancing career as he still has that fever burning deep inside him and he continues to hope to gain success in one of his many auditions, but with no joy. Tony still has that groovy walk and deep down jive and one even after another rejection he agrees to go and see Jackie dance in the last night of the show she is a backing dancer for.

Tony stands in the sidelines of the stage and finds himself becoming obsessed with the fantastic dancing of the lead dancer Laura (Finola Hughes). After the show, he tries his luck with his less than wonderful chat up lines but Laura is far from impressed and brushes him off. Not for long though as she agrees she will see him if he goes to an audition for dancers for an up and coming Broadway production being held the next day. To his surprise she is there when he auditions and when they meet up afterwards they soon end up having a relationship. Tony is successful in getting a part as a dancer in the show as is his friend Jackie. The relationship is very short lived however and Jackie is unhappy about it anyway as she confesses to Tony she is in love with him.

Problems occur in rehearsals as there is a clearly bad atmosphere and this is made worse by the fact that the lead male dancer is not very good. In steps Tony to try his luck in the role against Laura's wishes, but his performance is good and he soon becomes the lead male dancer. Problems are still occurring with his attitude and his bad relationship with Laura, but things are looking up when he finally gets it together with Jackie. The opening night is getting closer and Tony's nerves are getting the better of him, but to what cost.

Will he push his luck to far with Laura, will his nerves let him perform and is it really Jackie he wants. You will have to watch to find out.

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My Opinion.
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Well I though the first film was bad, but this has to take the biscuit as one of the most boring films I have suffered in a long time. Let us begin with the acting, or should I say lack of acting.

Travolta does it again with his I love myself routine and poor efforts at being a person with a bad attitude, but on saying that the performance was a little better than the First film, he just didn't have a great deal of storyline to work with. His dancing however was fantastic and better than the first film I thought. Cynthia Rhodes did give an acceptable performance but again she never really had a great role to work with. Her dancing to be fantastic as was the dancing of Finola Hughes. Finola did give a great performance and put real effort into her character especially when she was playing the Nasty Bitch (For want of a better expression).

All the other actors in this film gave acceptable performances and really, it was not so much the acting that let this film down. We were treated to some great dance moves and some good songs too, but the big let down for this film was the storyline and the script.

Who is responsible for this poor script and storyline, well none other than Mr Sylvester Stallone. He should be ashamed of himself, he writes fantastic films like the Rocky films then he goes and shoves out this piece of rubbish. Sylvester Stallone is also responsible for the directing of this movie and to be fair he did do a good job of that. The light show and effects during the Broadway performance was excellent in my opinion.

A few little surprises popped up in this film as well if you can stay awake long enough through he poor storyline, with a cameo appearance from Sylvester Stallone, but watch it close because if you blink you will miss it. Also making an appearance in this film as Carl is Frank Stallone (Sly's Brother) and surprise, surprise as with the Rocky movies Stallone has his Brother Frank doing the Songs and music for a great deal of the film. I must also mention that although he is not credited that Mr Patrick Swayze actually stars in he film in a short role as a dancing extra.

In my opinion, this film was rubbish; ok if you like dancing then yes this is the film for you. If you like the extra storyline accompanying the first film then this most definitely is not. I have to say I really was very fed up with the boring storyline and continual showing of the rehearsal repeatedly. One good point though is Travolta has a good body in this film and for all you women who love him; you get some good views of his muscles.

My final comment has to be though the picture on the cover of this DVD, which I have had to have as the only picture I am adding to this review. In my opinion, John Travolta looks like he is stood up showing off his Y fronts in this picture, comment if you agree...

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Technical Information.
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Cast.
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John Travolta Tony Manero
Cynthia Rhodes Jackie
Finola Hughes Laura
Julie Bovasso Mrs Manero
Frank Stallone Carl
Sylvester STallone Cameo appearance/ Man on street in beginning of film that bumps into Travolta
Patrick Swayze Dancing extra

Director Sylvester Stallone.

Certificate PG
Year 1983
Widescreen 16:9 Anamorphic
Languages English - Dolby Digital (5.1)
Duration 1 hour and 32 minutes (approx)

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