Not the best, but the smartest

Rating: 10/10 (2 April 1999)

After sitting through the final Wild West one, it's easy to wish they'd never made a sequel at all. It was a straight western and fans of time travel movies don't need to see westerns. But the second part of the trilogy, often overlooked, often criticised was the cleverest of the three. Fact is, the first Back to the future was so ace that we WANTed another, we know we did. And the complexity of Part II, that attracted so much of the criticism, is what makes it special. It's really thoughtful - the writers straddle the line between predictions and plugs, making excellent jokes about the future. I loved this one when I saw it in the pictures and when it ended with To Be Continued, I could hardly breathe I was so excited. Shame about the last part, which isn't SO bad at all, just not what I wanted