Staying Alive (1983)

 

Five years later, Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenge yet: succeeding as a dancer on the Broadway stage. 

Stolid sequel of Saturday Night Fever doesn't live up to the quality of its predecessor, even annoys with Travolta as a dislikeable nag and with a third-rate 80s soundtrack; the show finale is a bit amusing, though.

Halliwell  (no star): "Fragile sequel to Saturday Night Fever, with some of its frenetic quality but none of its impact." 

Maltin**: "...fashioned by director/cowriter Stallone into a ROCKY-type vehicle for Travolta...Broadway show finale, Satan's Alley (billed, with amazing accuracy, as a musical trip to Hell), is a camp classic, but neither the script nor the music...are in a class with the original 1977 film."