Every Saturday night, Tony is at the local discotheque dancing up a storm with his friends. One day, however, he decides to find a partner and enter the disco dance contest to win the grand prize.
Does he have what it takes to win?
I loved the soundtrack to the film, however, the song "Disco Inferno" is played ad-nauseum and becomes more annoying than anything else. They only used several songs in the film; they could have used many more, but I am not complaining.
John Travolta is awesome in the role of Tony. He very much deserved the Oscar nomination he received for his work. Travolta put in three months worth of work in prepairing for the role - he trianed in disco dancing and was very good from what we see of him on screen.
Saturday Night Fever brought disco into the mainstreme in the late '70s. Time was that Disco was an underground thing; your average yankee american didn't associate themself with this type of activity.
Just as the film Easy Rider did for the 1960's, Saturday Night Fever did for the 1970's: it summed up a portion of a generation of youth in America. Although 1970's were a year of turmoil in the U S of A, disco was a small, however important part of the nation's history, and in captured nicely in Saturday Night Fever.
Some people may say that disco is going to come back into style. To that I laugh out loud. Disco is as dead as the dodo. It's gone forever. But we can all look back at it, fondly, through the eyes of John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.
Plot: 
Visual Effects:
The filming of the dance sequences is very good; we see most, if not all of Travolta's best moves. He really jumped into this roles and it shows in the dances.
The opening shot of Travolta's feet and the camera going up is a uniqe shot and is well done; it is a nice touch.
Sound:
All of the songs on the soundtrack are disco songs and fit in very very well with the theme of this movie. (They pretty much have too.) Especially good are the songs Stayin' Alive in the opening scene and Disco Inferno, played ad-nauseum throught the picture.
Character Development:
Atmosphere:
Disco isn't for everyone. And yes, it is hard music to get into. However, Travolta eases you into the film, and weather you like disco or not, or even if you hate it altogether, you can still enjoy Saturday Night Fever for what it is: a memorable look back at a time long gone.
Realism:
The picture is based on an article printed in the New York Times which was supposedly real, based on several urban youth and their Saturday night activities.
The article was later found out to be false, though the film did do a memorable job of capturing the era.
Warren�s Rating:
7.71/10Is the movie worth your time to watch?
29-09-04
