Back to the Future Part II

Great Scott! What a wonderful sequel!!

The first film is a really great movie, a classic, but this sequel ups the ante and really gets creative with its plot. The thing that makes this such a great movie is all the time jumps, and the moments when the first movie and this movie collide. The school dance being an example of this.

Marty leaves to go to the future, 2015, to go and help his family. The year 2015 is totally ridiculous. Apparently by this year we will have hoverboards (i wish!) and flying cars. He helps his son, but ends up having to go to his future house to get Jennifer, where he learns that his future self has failed at life all because of some 'accident'. He also buys a sports almanac that changes everything. He was going to use it for personal gain back in 1985, but instead Old Man Biff gets it instead and takes the time machine back to 1955. He is nice and returns the DeLorean back to 2015, where Marty and Doc then go back to 1985. Only uh oh, its an alternate 1985 where the world is horrible, Biff is in charge of everything, married to Lorraine, and George is murdered. Doc and Marty figure out what happened pretty quickly, and then go back to 1955 to intercept the almanac from young Biff. This is when the movie really shines. Marty must get the almanac from Biff, who happens to be at the same school dance that Marty was at like 2 days ago, only he can't let what he does during this mission affect (sp!?) his other self, who is still trying to get back to the future. He succeeds in all of his goals, and just when everything was about to be hunky dory, Doc in the DeLorean gets struck by lightning and is sent to 1885!

Some great moments of the film:
The hoverboard chase in 2015
The pizza hut pizza that is tiny and then turns into a huge pizza.
Basically everything about the family scene in 2015. The multiple tv channels and video conferencing, and Marty's double tie.
The hoverboard sequence in 1955, (which the hoverboard gets left in 1955!! tragic)
When Marty sneaks up behind 1955 Doc after just sending the other Marty back to the future. I always wanted to run between those firey tire marks as well


                <-- Baby Elijah Wood!


I did not know this until I read the IMDb trivia, but Crispin Glover did not come back for this movie. He wanted too much money, and so they wrote him out of the script as much as possible, and used a look-a-like when they needed him. Like for instance, all of the 1955 footage of him in this movie is somebody else! Crazy.

Up Next: Back to the Future Part III

Andrew's Closing Thought: We have 3 years to make flying cars