54

Pros: Mike Myers, the only reason this got a 2 from me
Cons: Absolutely, positively everything else

An astonishingly bad movie, it charts the fictional career of a busboy at the most happening club on the planet. A busboy. Whose meteoric rise consists of him becoming a bartender. This is the whole movie. Unbelievable.

In its...

Pros: Mike Myers attempts a characterization
Cons: A lot

54 pales in comparison to another disco-era movie released the very same year: Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco. Both movies cover the same ground - even if New York City's legendary Studio 54 and its proprietor, the late Steve...

Pros: Cast, production values
Cons: Script, storyline, film construction

54 is what could've been an examination of the swinging 70's lifestyle: endless sex, cocaine, dancing, disco, nightclubbing, and naughty behavior. But it's more like a neutered dog walking around on one leg. 54 is a crap movie that had vision, a good ...

Pros: Mike Myers, Serious Eye Candy
Cons: Where's the plot? The acting? The depth? ANYTHING!?

I could seek out almost 10 actors on 54 who have worked on other favorites shows or movies of mine. One is from Queer As Folk (I don't remember his name but he played a french guy for like... two episodes), one is from a movie called ...

Pros: Mike Myers' performance as Steve Rubell.
Cons: Feels like a put on, just a bunch of actors making believe it's the seventies.

I'm going to open up my review of Michael Christopher's "54" by looking at a far superior film that also chronicles the era of the swinging seventies; that film is Paul Thomas Anderson's "Boogie Nights." There's a moment in "Boogie Nights" that ...

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Cons: read the review

Some films from the last few years have had simple stories and plot actions, but have succeeded as fascinating pieces of film-making. Just the opposite is true of "54," in which a large amount of action happens, and yet by the end, nothing interesting...

Pros: Decent look at an 70's cultural icon. Myers and Hayek are pretty good. Phillipe plays his character much better than one might expect.
Cons: The look wasn't the full picture. The music all sounds the same. Did people actually dress like that?

The 1980's saw the birth of the yuppie, the zenith of cocaine's popularity and the quick death of that musical phenomenon known as disco. But before the last strobe light of the 1970's had burnt out, Studio 54 threw some of the biggest, wildest and most...

Pros: Interesting subject
Cons: No depth of characters and story development

"54" is the tale of the legendary Studio 54 during it's height to it's fall from grace! The film is the story of the fictional characters and fantasy created by Steve Rubell during the disco age of the 1970's. Rubell created Studio 54 and the...

Pros: Good performance by Mike Myers
Cons: Storyline that doesn't know what it wants

I don't see many movies I dislike, since I usually read reviews by Ebert so I end up seeing ones I like. Every once in a while someone else takes me to see a film so I go along just to be nice and I end up seeing a film that reminds me what bad films are...

Pros: Good cast.
Cons: Nothing for them to do.

I have to admit the main reason I went to see this film was to beat the heat. I figured it would be amusing enough for a few hours and I really was looking forward to the central air-conditioning. I guess you get what you pay for because though 54 has...

Pros: Myers Best Performance, solid plot
Cons: Hayek was good but wasted

....I love that Disco High." Just one of many examples of disco hits. All in all disco got a really bad rap (no pun intended). To be honest I really find it hard to believe that such a short lived genre that completely embodied the spirit of...

Pros: Interesting subject matter...
Cons: ...that never comes close to being adequately explored.

If there were a subject just screaming to be made into a film, it was Studio 54, the late Steve Rubell's infamous New York discotheque, which came to symbolize the taboo-smashing excesses of the disco era's heyday: easy drugs and even easier sex between...

Pros: Movie was mediocre, good portrayal of Studio 54.
Cons: This movie was neither her nor there, mediocracy.

54 is an example of the most difficult type of movie to review. It is neither so atrocious nor so exceptional that the review virtually writes itself. 54 is mediocre on almost all counts: acting (with a couple of exceptions), writing, direction and...

Pros: Good acting by Phillipe and Myers
Cons: How much does anyone care about disco???

This movie is ok compared to the awful last days of disco. 54 chronicles the club and its owner as well as patrons. The last days of disco is a self indulgent yuppie yarn the runs during disco days but bores one to death. They would be an interesting...

Pros: Good performances and soundtrack
Cons: very short film

As a child who group up in NY in the 1980's, I just missed the Studio 54 era. I always wanted to know what the hype was about...you know to know what it was, when it was.

The movie 54 may be as close as I will ever get.

I know a...