One of the worst movies ever made.

Rating: 1/10 (10 July 2010)

After re-watching the original with my young son (I watched it with him--we both loved it of course) we rented this sequel, which I had never seen. It was *really* painful to watch.
Most of the problems seemed to be traceable to the writing, which is strange as it's the same Gale/Zemeckis pair that wrote the original. The humor had a tiresome elbow-in-the-ribs obviousness to it, the dialog lacked any charm or style and seemed largely devoted to (re-)explaining what was going on right in front of us on the screen (perhaps an aid to the visually impaired?), and the conceptualization of the future never rose above kind of warmed-over Jetsons idiocy (flying cars, video-screen robot waiters, self-tying shoes, hoverboards instead of skateboards, etc.).
The fine cast seemed to be almost uniformly phoning it in, making the few who seemed to actually be working at it (Christopher Lloyd, for one) seem incongruous and pathetically out of place, as if they were in a different movie.
Incoherent, un-amusing, and utterly pointless.