10 Movie Sequels With The Most Shocking Drops In Quality

7. Staying Alive

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Saturday Night Fever was a pop culture phenomenon, helping to popularise disco around the globe, telling a tale of working class ambition, and leading to an Academy Award nomination for John Travolta. What Saturday Night Fever wasn't, though, was a film that ever needed any sort of sequel.

Of course, six years after Saturday Night Fever's release, 1983 brought audiences Staying Alive, with Travolta back in the saddle as a Tony Manero chasing fame on Broadway. To highlight how things went for this follow-up, Staying Alive is the oldest film in history to currently sit on a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

"Rotten" doesn't even come close to doing justice to this turd of a sequel, with the Sylvester Stallone-directed Staying Alive totally missing the point of the original. Part of what makes Saturday Night Fever so mesmerising is its gritty realism of a working class neighbourhood, with the film's dance numbers serving as an escape from the day-to-day shackles and troubles for Tony and his pals. In Staying Alive, those day-to-day issues are largely left in the shadows as the sequel instead shines more focus on ludicrous dance number after ludicrous dance number.

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