Great movie, Lousy Reasoning

Rating: 9/10 (27 January 2001)

Next to ghosts, time travel movies are widely entertaining when they throw fourth-dimensional reasoning out the window. Marty McFly goes back in time and prevents his parents from meeting so he vanishes, right. Wrong! He has already been born in a timeline that still exists in another Quantum reality. He's just a visitor from another future timeline apart from the one he altered. The only reason to restore his parents' relationship would be to create a future along that timeline to go to in the first place. "Don't forget to think fourth dimensionally." says Dr. Emmett Brown, wonderfully played by Christopher Lloyd, but now the bane of his existence thanks to numerous would-be impressionists. Lea Thompson and Crispin Glover fit right into the 1950 sequences, as does Thomas F. Wilson as the idiot/bully Biff. The script as are the culture shocks between the Fifties and the Eighties are wonderful and the cast does a wonderful job. This is a great movie for anyone to watch over and over, but it is best seen on video rather than with commercial interuptions.