Back to the Future Part II

Rating: 5/10 (8 January 2007)

Director Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump) and executive producer Steven Spielberg didn't intend to make a sequel, but the ending certainly made it possible. I should mention by the way they re-shot the opening and ending both to make sense with change of actors and match with the previous events. Anyway, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) with his girlfriend Jennifer Parker (Elisabeth Shue, replacing Claudia Wells) have gone with Dr. 'Doc' Emmet Brown (Christopher Lloyd) to 2015, to do something about the kids. In the future, Marty and Jennifer are married with a son with an uncanny resemblance to Marty, and Marty has to change his future so he doesn't get arrested. While looking around, Marty bought a book revealing all winners of every major sport from 1950 - 2000, and old Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) stole it, and changed the 1985 that Marty, Doc and Jennifer (who fainted at seeing her older self) know. To restore their 1985 they have to go back to 1955, coincidently the same day that Marty got back to 1985 before. Trying to recover the sports book from 1955 Biff, after the old one has given it to him, both Marty and Doc have to make sure not to bump into their past selves too. In the end, they succeed, but flying in the stormy sky, Doc in the DeLoreon gets struck by lightning, accidentally sending him back to 1885, back he managed to send a letter to Marty in 1955, so it will continue/conclude. Also starring Lea Thompson as Lorraine Baines/McFly/Tannen, Jeffrey Weissman as George McFly, Titanic's Billy Zane as Match, and look out for young Elijah Wood as Video Game Boy, and Fox playing the McFly daughter, Marlene. The future part is okay, the alternate 1985 is interesting, but for me the only reason to see it is for the 1955 from another angle, and it explains how they get a hover board in the third film. It was nominated the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, and it was nominated the BAFTA for Best Special Effects. Worth watching!