Saturday Night Fever (1977) (Spanish Packaging; Widescreen)
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User Reviews: Saturday Night Fever (1977)
The best Travolta movie ever.
Pros: Great, fantastic flick.
Cons: None.
I was waiting for so long for this movie to come up on dvd. It is extraordinary, so vibrant, so authentic, so beautiful.
When I was a kid I used to believe that I was Tony Manero. I walked like him, I combed my hair like him and I acted like him. I wish I could go back to those times. Everything was sooo good like tapes and vinyl....Was this review helpful? Yes - NoRedefines Disco After All These Years
Pros: Great Picture and Sound, Bonus Sounds to Some Songs,
Cons: Deleted Scenes Weren't Necessary
"Saturday Night Fever" has everything going for this legendary classic and it still holds up for 25 years, even more. It is part screwball comedy, part social drama, and lots of great dancing and music. John Travolta was the perfect choice as Tony Manero, the working classman who finds solace as the Disco King of Brooklyn's 2001 Odyssey. That was a real-life disco in the Bay Ridge area and today, it is called Spectrum.
Tony Manero has problems underneath his surface as the hottest dancer in the nightclub. He is a lowly paint store clerk. His parents nag him all the time and wish he would get a real life. He has delinquent friends who drive crazy around town, have sex in backseats of cars with strange women, do drugs, curse all the time (so does Tony), and dangle dangerously off the Verazzanno Bridge to impress Tony's original bimbette dance partner Annette (played by Donna Pescow, later of "Angie" fame).
But Tony's luck begins to change when he spots Stephanie Mangano (Karen Lynn Gorney, nine years Travolta's senior) at the nightclub, a petite, pretty disco dancer with a serious manner. When they meet at a local dance studio and then discuss everything at lunch one day, Stephanie gets the impression that Tony is too young, not educated enough, and is a "I'll do whatever I damn please" man. After all, Stephanie is an upper crust lady who works as a secretary in Manhattan where she lunches with the rich and famous, and wants to move from Brooklyn to Manhattan to make a life for herself.
Once Tony ditches Annette for Stephanie for his dance partner, Stephanie, unlike Annette, would rather dance with him and keep the relationship platonic. At the end of the film, Tony finally grows up under the influence of Stephanie and first abandons the disco scene, then Annette and his dumb friends at the Verazzanno bridge, where one accidentally falls off there.
This is a classic film. The dance scenes are always exciting to watch. The flaws are basically the excessive foul language done for realism, as Brooklyn working class people often speak, the fist fight scene in a sleazy bar where the guys crash their car into and Tony leaves with a bloody face, and the bridge scenes. Yes, a story had to be there or it would just be a mindless dance film, but without the excesses, the movie would be near perfect.
perfect.
Comic relief comes from cameos by pudgy Denny Dillon who appeared later on "Saturday Night Live" in the ill-fated 1980-81 season) as an admirer of Tony who gets dumped by him on the dance floor (on a TV version, they get to dance to "Disco Duck," where he does a mechanical-man dance) and by Fran Drescher who grabs Tony by the rear end onto the dance floor, and dances with him before his noteworthy solo dance scene.
As for the extras on the DVD, the deleted scenes weren't memorable, but the VH1 special was pretty good, talking with cast members and "Dance Fever" host Denny Terrio, who trained Travolta for all the right moves. Poignancy comes from the deaths of two key members of Travolta's life - Diana Hyland, Travolta's girlfriend who convinced him to make the movie, and she would die of breast cancer in his arms; and the late, great film critic Gene Siskel, who claimed "Saturday Night Fever" to be his all-time favorite film and bought the famed white polyester disco suit at an auction. In fact, Travolta and Siskel were friends.
This is a good-time DVD. And also, listen carefully for additional orchestrated sounds in the Bee Gees' "More than a Woman" and "Staying Alive" numbers. It may not be the best DVD of all time, but the picture, sound, and the VH1 special keep it afloat.Was this review helpful? Yes - NoNothing like the 70's, yeah baby yea
There's everything good about this movie, it's verrry sexy, c'mon (John Travolta people,mmm)Seriosly.
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoVery realistic
I was 4 when this movie came out. And I remember hearing the soundtrack on 8-track in my parent's '79 LeBaron on early road trips. I was strangely "tranced" by the music on it. Every time I watch it now it feels like it all comes together like Im there in that time period cause Its easy to relate to Tony and what he goes thru. Juggling between his friends, his family, his work & his one passion in life. For me it was all about cruisin my modified car on Saturday nights. Even though I rarely dance, I have a fun time watching this movie when I get the chance..., I give it 4 starz.
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoSaturday Night Fever
The One & Only Just Got Better By Hitting DVD Format! Without A Doubt, A Classic!!!
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoThe 'Fever' is STILL Burning 25 yrs. lat
I just bought the DVD of 'Saturday Night Fever' yesterday and I've already watched it 3 times! I am a 'child' of the disco era and I LOVE this movie. Travolta is wonderful in this complex role as both a villian and eventual 'hero' to his own life. The music drives the story along and when the famous solo dance sequence begins...you can't take your eyes off the screen. I feel that most of the people who jumped on the so-called 'disco sucks' bandwagon were just people who could not dance and had no idea of how much fun it was to get out there on the dance floor and enjoy the moment. I reccomend this movie (especially on DVD) to anyone who enjoys good music, dancing, and above all a spectacular performance from Travolta.
Was this review helpful? Yes - Nosweet
Disco is back!
on dvd. So buy it...NOW and keep it 4ever.Was this review helpful? Yes - Notoo much Travolta bulge.
I've noticed a pattern in John Travolta movies, where he constantly and consistently shows off his bulge. this movie is the worst example as he is fully aroused throughout the entire movie. If the music isn't bad enough, the bulge makes this movie unwatchable. Travolta seems to be begging to be touched. "Touch me in the bulge," he subliminally asks. "I have a big bulge," He implies. I hope that he gets that oh so precious bulge cut right off.
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoTerrific
The best disco movie. The opening scene i.e .....the train... the music...and the body swaying.Excellent soundtrack and lots of dancing sequence. Great dancing sequence during the "you should be dancing" soundtrack.Waiting for the debut on the DVD. Highly recommended and Travolta really deserve the nomination for oscar for the role. A breakthrough performance.
Was this review helpful? Yes - Nowhat? where?
this movie is a classic. The best disco movies of all disco movies. Everyone since take last place. The best sound track, and it's all good.
can't wait to get it on dvd.
rent it. watch it. live it.
whoa!Was this review helpful? Yes - No1977
Reasons to buy this:
I was born the year it was made
The soundtrack is wickedy wack
The dance moves rockWas this review helpful? Yes - Noups and downs of the movie
There are not many downs to this movie except for the fact that it could have been a little better produced.
ya wanna know why this movie is so good and why it KICKS ASS???? WELL DO YA PUNK?!?!?!??!??!?!? It's because John Travolta (the king of disco) is starring in it
besides there are some hot little hunnies in da movie to!!!!!!
and just one word for ya kiddies
STAYIN ALIVE by the beegees 'NUFF SAID!Was this review helpful? Yes - No
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