24. Staying Alive (1983)

Starring: John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes, Steve Inwood, Frank Stallone

Directed By: Sylvester Stallone

We all know and love the classic film of John Travolta, Saturday Night Fever. However, most of us have forgotten its estranged sequel, Staying Alive. The movie is set six years after the events of Saturday Night Fever. Tony Manero, played by John Travolta, is now working as a dance instructor in New York and is now aiming to make it big on Broadway. He later gets an opportunity to prove himself when his girlfriend earns him an audition for an upcoming Broadway show, Santan’Alley.

This sequel is the brainchild of action star legend Sylvester Stallone. Although it isn’t his first rodeo at being a director, it is a relative jump from his staple of gritty hard-hitting action-driven films. The critics’consensus for Staying Alive states that it is a shockingly embarrassing sequel and has contrastingly uninspired dance sequences from its predecessor.