A groovy and toe-tapping disco era movie.

Rating: 8/10 (10 September 2015)

Saturday Night Fever is one of the most ultimate disco movies, where John Travolta stars as Brooklyn teenager Tony Manero, who is known as the king of the disco floor at a local dance club. His weekend visits to the club help him overcome the bleakness in his life and he teams up with a girl from a dance class to enter a dance competition.
You get to see Travolta dance and boogie to a number of discos songs, from the Bee Gees' Staying Alive to KC & the Sunshine Band's Boogie Shoes, and you couldn't help but rock and sing-along with the groovy and toe-tapping music. The movie reserves a good amount of time for all the disco singing and dancing, which what I think represent one of the most iconic moments in the disco era and in pop culture as a whole.
The cinematography captures the somewhat lazy and dreary feel of Brooklyn, which I think symbolizes Tony's troubled life. The chemistry between him and his carefree friends serve up some good drama in the movie, and the conflict between him and his family was pretty suspenseful. But, I think there is little chemistry between him and dance partner Stephanie (Karen Lynn Gorney) as I thought her character was unsympathetic and pretty wooden. The plot was well-paced for the most part, but thought it ***spoiler ahead** fell apart at the end especially toward the end during the fighting scene and the events after the dance competition as left pretty anti-climatic. ***spoiler ends***
Overall, though, it's a pretty cool movie with great songs and an iconic performance from Travolta.
Grade B