THE STORY SO FAR ...

Rating: 8/10 (14 December 1999)

Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) travels with his wacky inventor friend thirty years into the past, where he changes his father from the doormat he was in 1985 into a strong and assertive man, except he makes it the case that his father was never a doormat in 1985, so the first part of the film didn't really happen, except that it did. That accomplished, he goes back to 1985 and his wacky inventor visits the 21st century.
In the 21st century, the wacky inventor learns that something terrible will befall Marty's son (Michael J. Fox) and his daughter (Michael J. Fox), so he recruits Marty's help to make sure that it doesn't happen, so the wacky inventor can't hear about it, and therefore can't prevent it. He also casually mentions that if too many more impossible things happen then perhaps the whole universe (Michael J. Fox) will explode. Luckily, it doesn't. With pluck and daring, Marty succeeds in preventing the future tragedy that caused him to prevent it, but inadvertently changes the past so that the events of the entire first movie didn't happen, except that they did. When they discover what has happened, except that it hasn't, Marty's wacky inventor friend comes up with a theory that might make sense of it, except that it doesn't. But with pluck and daring, they set everything back the way it was, except that it's also the way things have always been.
But now the wacky inventor is stranded in the 19th century. All pretence of consistency abandoned, Marty must use pluck and daring to prevent his ancestor (Michael J. Fox) from making it the case that his future self...
Ah, forget it.