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#1 Worst Sequel?!?!?!?!?!?!? !?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!


Stayin' Alive was listed as AOL's #1 out of 25 worst sequels ever made. I FRIGGIN' LOVE THIS MOVIE!!! I can watch it a million times over. Yes the first was great, but I think I like this one even better. Many will disagree, but I don't care. I love this movie! Whenever it's on, I have to watch it straight through no matter how many times I've seen it before. I own the tape and the soundtrack... and both rock!

http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1169126-2-7_21||525488|1_,00.html

1. Staying Alive 1983

It was impossible not to be moved by the '90s soap opera comeback of John Travolta in Pulp Fiction. But what went little noted in that narrative of redemption was what caused his career to derail in the first place. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Staying Alive — a disaster of such epic proportions they should've handed out HazMat suits and Cipro when you entered the theater. Picking up several years after Saturday Night Fever, Travolta's Brooklyn disco Casanova Tony Manero is now a struggling Broadway dancer. Rejection has hardened his charm into a cocky, misogynistic swagger. After a one-night stand with a snooty dance star (General Hospital's Finola Hughes), he lands a part in Satan's Alley — a show so cheesy it looks like Bob Mackie throwing up on the Starlight Express. The bitchy director describes the musical as ''a journey through hell that ends with an ascent to heaven.'' We get the ''journey through hell'' part; where's the ascent? Tarted up in a Tarzan loincloth, Travolta shakes his moneymaker to Frank Stallone music. (The film's directed by his brother, Sylvester Stallone, finally answering the question, How much Stallone is too much Stallone?) Staying Alive is a sequel that ignores everything that made the original great, which of course may be the biggest insult of all.


PS: I can list 50 worse sequels than this movie off the top of my head!

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I read AOL's list too. I liked the movie. I guess I am a loser!!!! Cindy Rhodes was HOT

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