Dated cult favorite - the musical moments are the highlights

Rating: 5/10 (14 June 2011)

The many cons of this movies are definitely within the characters. Tony Manero is a brilliant dancer and a player with the ladies ("Well you can tell by the way I walk, you know I'm a woman's man") but that's basically all he knows.
In the film, Tony struggles with two different lifestyles: one is staying in Brooklyn, with his jerk friends, bad job, dysfunctional family and fights with ethnic minorities. The other is with the more cultured Stephanie, actually going somewhere and getting a life. Tony constantly changes and re-changes his attitude towards these two lives, liking Stephanie and then snaps at her more cultured lifestyle, hanging out with his friends and then disowning them, claiming they're fake. Over and over again.
As for the women portrayed in this film, they seem just as confused as Tony. What kind of a woman would go back to and forgive a man who had raped or who had almost raped her? A lot of the stories just don't make sense.
The highlights of course, are the famous dance scenes and the Bee Gees music. At the time, this movie put the dance floor scene in the light, creating a cult status. My parents really liked this movie, only because of the music, only for me its not so much of a movie masterpiece as a lot of people say.