Disappointing

Rating: 6/10 (27 January 2006)

Marty and Doc travel into the future to solve some problems, travel back to 1985 only to encounter more problems and the only way to solve those problems is to go back to 1955.
Overly complicated and pretentious sequel to the classic original. The futuristic sequences seem silly and overblown and the 1985 reality is so bleak and uninteresting with cheap humor. It's only in the final third, when they go back to 1955, that the film comes to life for an exciting finale.
Zemeckis drowns the film in special effects, has some sort of compulsion to have all the characters meet their other selves and really stretches every bit of credibility to the point of absurdity (the tunnel scene not only unsuspenseful and unconvincing but badly edited). The film somehow feels rushed, not made with a whole lot of passion, even the cast somehow seem disinterested. Thomas F. Wilson however gives another great performance in no less than three roles and is by far the best of the bunch this time around.
Back to the Future Part II is not boring, but in comparison to the first rate original it comes as a sore disappointment. Fortunately they made Part III and finished off on a high note.