Saturday Night Fever (DVD)

Saturday Night Fever. (Film Review Only) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Plot. ------------ Tony Manero lives for his Saturday nights at his local disco where he is King of the dance floor. One Saturday night Stephanie Mangano catches his attention because of her great dancing and he eventually persuades her to be his partner at the clubs dance competition. The Storyline. ----------------------- Tony Manero (John Travolta) is a young Italian American living in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. His passion is dancing and one day he hopes to make it to the big time with his talent. Tony ...  Read the complete review

When I think of this film, I recall the dance scenes, I laugh and think of the absolutely wicked soundtrack, which is still to my mind one of the great film soundtracks of all time, but I watched the film again the other day and this is actually a much darker slice of life on the streets of New York than I ever remembered it being. The film follows Tony Manero (John Travolta), a paint shop worker, who spends all his money on nights out, where for the evening he is something more than Tony the paint shop worker, he is Tony, the dancefloor god, somebody who is looked up to by other guys and swooned over by women, someone whose dancing speaks for him because ...  Read the complete review

People who've never seen this film would probably think it was just some disco movie full of bee gees music, quaffed hair and John Travolta swivelling his hips on the dancefloor. Well Saturday Night Fever is just that on the surface but it's also more than that. The fact that it has an '18' certificate in the UK should tell you that this isn't really a nice movie about dancing. Travolta stars as Tony Manero, a young guy whom by day works in a hardware store. By night he's the king of the local dance floor and frequently performs his moves to the adulation of the crowd. He hangs around with some friends who also have no real direction on ...  Read the complete review

When this film first came out, I was a wee nipper (well, almost 16) and I only saw some clips on TV at the time. When it finally reached our TV screens it was edited so much that parts of the story really did not make sense. It wasn't until about 1990 when the film was shown in all its glory that I understood several of the remarks made by Tony. Anyone who has not seen the complete version really needs to get hold of a copy or wait for it to be shown late night again. There really isn't much of a story going on, but the atmosphere is the important thing here. Many films have tried to recapture the feeling of this film (54, The Last Days of ...  Read the complete review