Night Fever

Rating: 8/10 (28 July 2003)

I believe that this was the first movie that I saw in the theatre when I four-years-old. (My second movie was Star Wars-also in 1978-then the Muppet Movie, and then I am sure the next was Popeye). The baby sitter took me to Saturday Night Fever, and I remember my legs fell asleep sitting in the seat for so long. I viewed the movie again tonight, and this time nothing fell asleep.
Despite the fact that the lead actress was completely the wrong chick for this film, and although the movies ending was sort of lackadaisical; nevertheless, the acting was all pretty honest, nothing was forced, and the film flowed very, very well. Coupled with the fact that the soundtrack is superb & the dancing was top-notch it tells us a lot about how we took a relatively cool style of music and mistreated it with coked-up lifestyles and loud polyester. Sure, it might look cool en-retro; however, asked someone who lived the discotheque life and they will grin and bow their heads in shame.
This is really a fun movie that actually contains substance.
I think Saturday Night Fever deserves a lot better rating than most IMDB users give it. As for me, I am going to break out my platform shoes and give it a solid 8/10.