I wouldn't change a thing about this movie!

Rating: 9/10 (30 April 2017)

The film Back to The Future was released in the US in 1985, and starred Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, a high school student who is unlikely friends with Doctor "Doc" Emmet Brown, played by Christopher Lloyd. Doc is an eccentric inventor, who has created what he hopes to be the first ever time machine out of a DeLorean. Marty is documenting the unveiling of the time machine with Doc in the Twin Pines mall parking lot, when Doc is hunted down by the terrorists he stole the plutonium from that he needed to fuel his machine with. After Doc is gunned down by the terrorists, Marty has to flee for his life, so he jumps in the DeLorean, and accidentally speeds back in time to 1955. He meets up with a 30-year younger Doc, who has not yet invented the time machine, and mistakenly bumps into his parents, George (Crispin Glover) and Lorraine (Lea Thompson), before they were supposed to have met. He disrupts the sequence of events that should have led to them getting married, and so has to try to match them up before his own existence is put in jeopardy. He also has to help Doc fix the DeLorean so he can get back to 1985, all before it's too late.
The theme of this film is courage vs. fear. Marty and his band, The Pinheads, try out for his school's Battle of the Bands, and they're turned away because they're "too loud". He tells girlfriend Jennifer (Claudia Wells) that he's never going to get to play in front of anyone. She tells him he needs to send his audition tape to the radio station, but he's afraid his band will be rejected, and doesn't think he could handle the rejection. He's afraid to even try because of the possibility of failing.
Later, when Marty goes back to 1955 and sees that Lorraine is interested in him instead of his father, the way it should be, he tries to get George to ask Lorraine out. George doesn't even want to ask her for fear of her possibly saying no. But when George overcomes his fear and stands up to Biff to save Lorraine, she falls in love with him for his courage.
This is a similar theme to the theme in the film It's a Wonderful Life, when George Bailey (James Stewart) is taken to a time when he was never born, and he sees the impact he has had on his town and the people around him. It gives him the courage to stand up to the evil businessman, Mr. Potter, and do the right thing.
The special effects and studio sets made the film not only more enjoyable to watch, but helped to make the story line more believable while you watch it. Filmed in the 1980s, the special effects aren't nearly as high-tech as what we have today, but were very good for the time, and still make the time machine scenes very exciting.
The film score, composed by Alan Silvestri, also helps to set the mood of the film, especially when the triumphant theme comes in during actions sequences, or when Marty or George are doing something particularly brave. The music makes you feel excited and victorious, and heightens the emotions in the film.
Back to The Future is a great movie about making good life choices, doing the right thing, and standing up for yourself. Marty is able to go back in time to help his father stand up for himself and be courageous, and they both end up being better people for it. This film always has something great to teach every time I watch it.