It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
A typically weak sequel that has no legitimate artistic reason for being. [July 22, 1983]
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Stallone's sequel has almost nothing to do with the original film except that it's about dancing; otherwise, it's Rocky IV with legwarmers. [16 Jul 1983]
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Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Staying Alive, the sequel to John Travolta's "Saturday Night Fever," plays like wet cement. [16 Jul 1983]