Exploitation at its Puffiest !

Rating: 6/10 (23 November 2009)

I was shocked when I first saw it. Since I'm not another fan of (Back to the Future - 1985), rather I'm in love with it, I expected something as great. But I was wrong. Because this is a cheap profiteering out of it and nothing more!
The writing is the only criminal here. It's clear how they tried desperately to make up anything for a sequel after the success of the first. So they exhausted themselves very much to fabricate this one, with so many time-games and reediting for the first one's main events. While the more original, less exploitative efforts were saved for the third installment.
The script tries to invent whatever fits the (Back to The Future)'s title, so the leads must do what they do, on one condition; ending with coming back to the future. Look at this plot: We got to see the future, then we return to the present to find it destroyed because someone of the very future went to the past earlier so he destroyed the actual present, hence the leads had to go back to the past to repair it, then go BACK TO THE FUTUER. This is what makes the difference between the first movie as "creation" and the second as "utilization"!
Except the almanac factor, nothing could have happened in the first place. Originally, this sequel itself looks like almanac for the first movie's world, and all what they did was messing with it! The scenes of the first (Back..) are reused during the first and third acts (the restaurant's mess, the action after, the home's talking, the 50s party..) with only new clothes. I was between sick and embarrassed due to endless "Don't meet your other self" matters. Actually, the repeating of "This is heavy", "A deja-vu", and maybe "I'll destroy the time-machine" could mirror the movie makers' real weariness out of the manipulation that they were doing to their fine work!
There was trite point like how (Biff) confesses all about his secrets to his wife's son easily! But this is nothing compared to a huge plot hole I noticed; when the old (Biff) stole the car, along with the almanac, then went into the past, he came back to "his" future to find it totally unharmed??!! It's intuitive, and according to the movie's logic as well, that when he traveled, he already changed the time, so he would return to totally another future; the future of him as rich in rotten city, not coming back to his own time in the same neighborhood as if he rode the time-machine along the blocks!
And to make it worse and worse; it missed the substance. The first contains a sort of romantic comedy about girl-loves-boy and this boy-doesn't-love her so he-goes-to-unite-her-with-another, not to mention a message about being active; taking the right decision in the right time to fulfill it. The third part got a love story too where the doc falls in love; that's a character development to remember passionately. Simply, that what gives the movie, any movie, a serious place in our hearts. However, this poor one got nothing of this sort. Why they didn't give every sequel a certain meaning or lesson? It's how movies didn't age badly, or age at all.
Anyway, it managed to be somehow solid and entertaining all along, yet as a huge comic book which's surely less important and more puffy than the other 2 movies. So, eventually, when it comes to love; what could be really loved from it? Well, it's easy; the funny details of the future, (Elisabeth Shue) as the new (Jennifer), and seeing the characters of the original hit ride again.. But not quite hit again!