So Good It Stands on it's own! Great Comic Western!

Rating: 10/10 (21 June 2015)

This movie stands on its own without Parts I or II. One of the greatest sequels ever! Doc invents several gadgets in 1885 that are both the implausible and impossible. Mary Steenburgen injects a great deal of energy into the film as the "schoolmarm" and "sweetheart" of Doc Brown. Her stunt woman-double can really ride that horse! Thomas Wilson also "runs away with the movie" as stupid villain Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen and shows that he can really act! Everything works here: Great sets, decoration, costumes, Marty's Irish ancestors. Lea Thompson (again) is fantastic. Real old-time Western actors in the saloon! "Doc" as the reluctant "sober" drunk! The changing tombstone picture! A winner all the way! "Mad Dog" commits very little serious violence and the movie is far better because of it! The "running gag" of the manure dump! The "riveting" Clint Eastwood "gag" of the metal stove-plate that saves Marty's life! The almost-mandatory "gunfight in the street"! The train scenes work seamlessly from beginning to end. The train-wreak and bridge-tracks are all opticals and miniatures. The ending is a real train-wreak as Marty barely misses being run over by a modern-day train when he gets back to 1985 and Doc appears from the past (with the whole family and "Einstein the Dog") on the most futuristic steam locomotive imaginable! One of our favorite Saturday afternoon movies. Actually better than Part I, but I don't have "11" stars!