Well, its been quite some time since I've looked at the subject of this post, which is the acclaimed sci-fi adventure, Back To The Future and my original post for it is quite old, so figured it was time to update it.
So, with that said let's take another look at this classic and see how it fairs some 37 years later...
And the usual warning is coming up...
PLOT SPOILERS ARE AHEAD!!!
STORY
OK so the for the story, the film is set in Hill Valley, California in the year 1985 and the main character is Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) who lives with his family. Marty's family include his cowardly father, George (Crispin Glover), his out of shape mother Lorraine (Lea Thompson) who is a drinker, and his two older siblings Dave and Linda who are both underachievers. At dinner Lorraine recalls how she first met George when her father hit him with his car and she soon fell in love with him.
Later that night, Marty receives a phone call from his friend, Dr Emmett "Doc" Brown (Christopher Lloyd) who tells he needs his help with an experiment down at a deserted shopping mall. The Doc reveals that he has built a time machine into a DeLorean and he sets an experiment where the car travels fast up to 88mph and when it does it transports itself forward in time, arriving back a minute later. The Doc explains in order for time travel to be possible he created the flux capacitor and he uses plutonium to channel 1.21 gigawatts of power into the car so it can transport it through time.
As the Doc prepares to leave for a
trip, having set in November 5, 1955 (as an example date of when he
first had the idea for the flux capacitor) a group of Libyan terrorists
arrive and shoot him (as he stole the plutonium from them). And Marty
narrowly escapes in the DeLorean and as he speeds away from them, the
car's speedometer clocks 88mph and he is transported back in time to
1955.
In 1955, Marty hides the car but discovers that there is no more
plutonium for him to return back to the future. On exploring his
surroundings of Hill Valley in 1955 he enters a diner and finds himself
sitting next to his future father, George, who is a teenager at this
time. George is bullied by Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) who demands
that he do his homework for him and tells him never to come back into
the diner.
As Marty follows George, he saves him from being hit by a car, belonging to Lorraine's dad, and he himself is knocked out by impact. Marty wakes up in Lorraine's room and its obvious from here that she has fallen for Marty instead of George, and he eventually excuses himself and leaves. Marty soon finds the Doc's house, who is now a younger man, and he tells him about the flux capacitor and takes him to see the DeLorean, convinced that he is genuine by this, the Doc helps to try and get home. However during the playback of Marty's videotape of the Doc in 1985, he hears him say 1.21 gigwatts and he says there is simply no way to generate that power, other than a bolt of lightning.
Marty realising he was given a flyer in his own time which
is donated to the cause to save the clock tower, shows the Doc that the
clock tower will be struck by lightning on 12 November 1955. However in
the meantime, Marty shows the Doc the picture of him and his two
siblings, which shows that as a result of Marty's intefering with his
parents first meeting that it will threaten his future existance and if
he doesn't get George together with Lorraine then Marty will cease to
have ever existed. And this is where the real battle against time
starts with Marty and the Doc trying to find a way for his parents to
get together and for him to get back to the future....
THOUGHTS
The appeal of Back to the Future nearly 30 years later is still undeniable and it still remains a really charming, funny and intelligent science fiction comedy film. Bob Zemeckis, the director and co-writer Bob Gale came up with the idea initially together from two different ideas they had of what if both their own parents had different personalities if they were alive at the time before they were born and they discovered what they could have been like. The film itself took five years to finally get made as Zemeckis and Gale had written several drafts of the script and taken it to different film studios who all turned it down, but Zemeckis eventually got Steven Spielberg's backing after his success with Romancing the stone.
The film also is undoubtedly very creative in how it deals with the whole time travel concept and it actually does it better than most films of its kind, in that the events that affect us in the past will shape our future. This is well demonstrated of course where Marty realises that his actions in saving George from being hit by the car will eventually lead to his own demise if he doesn't somehow get George and Lorraine together.
The film
also pokes fun at some of the old sci-fi comics of the period, and we
see Marty in his radiation suit as he arrives in 1955, he exists a barn
of a family who think him to be from outer space! But it also looks at
the themes of courage, love, fear and what could have been if things
didn't pan out the way they could have, although ultimately the changes
Marty makes in the film eventually turn out in a way he never expected
either!
PERFORMANCES AND NOTABLE SCENES
So as for the performances they are all excellent from a largely unknown cast at that time.
Starting with Martin J. Fox who is perfect in his role as the young, genial and plucky Marty McFly, who unlike the rest of his family has drive and ambition to do something with his life. Fox was originally set to be cast in the film but his contractual obligations to the hit TV show, Family Ties, meant he was unable to be cast in the role. As a result Eric Stoltz was cast in the role, but Zemeckis felt after a few weeks he wasn't right for the role and he eventually managed to secure Fox for the part.
Fox has
several highlights in the film such as the memorable opening scene where
Marty enters the Doc's garage, which is filled gadgets of all sorts,
and he plugs his guitar into a power amplifier system, but as he plucks
the strings the system overloads and blasts Marty back against the
wall! And Marty stunned get's up slowly and looks at the wrecked speaker and says "Whoa! Rock and roll" and then the phone rings and Marty answers it to speak to Doc, who tells him to meet with him later on that night but then a lot of clocks go off in the room. And Doc on the phone tells Marty "My plan worked, all these clocks are exactly 25 minutes slow!" and Marty asks "Doc, are you telling me its 8.25??" and Doc says "Precisely!" and Marty says "Damn! I'm late for school!" and he hangs up.
Also later in the scene where the school's discipline officer, Mr Strickland (brilliantly played by James Tolkan) berates Marty for being late. So, Strickland tells him "I hear you are on the school band roster for this year, why even bother, McFly? You're too much like your old man!" and he gets right in Marty's face and says "No McFly ever amounted to anything in the history of Hill Valley!" and Marty says "Well history is gonna change".
Fox also has some fun moments with Crispin Glover as George, where he
has to try and hide that he is his father such as after Marty runs after
George when he leaves the diner and he shouts "Hey, dad! George! Hey, you
on the bike!". And as Marty catches up with George he finds him up a tree looking at a girl across the street undressing (Lorraine) and Marty looks shocked and says "He's a peeping tom!". However as George loses his balance and falls out the tree, an oncoming car approaches him and Marty reacts and pushes George out the way and shouts "Dad!" just as the car knocks him down instead.
Also as Marty and the Doc arrive at the school and the Doc asks which one is George, and Marty points out George who is being bullied and kicked by two boys, and the Doc says "Maybe you were adopted. What did your mother ever see in that kid??" and Marty says "I don't know. I guess mom just felt sorry for him as her dad hit him with the car." and then it dawns him he has changed events "He hit ME with the car!".
Also later when Marty in the past with the Doc goes to the school and finds out that Lorraine has fallen for him, Doc tells Marty "This is worse than I thought, it appears your mother amorously infatuated with you instead of your father" and Marty says "Wait a minute, Doc, are you trying to tell me my mother has the hots for me??!" and Doc tells him "Precisely!" and Marty freaked out says "Whoa, this is heavy!".
Another good scene is when Marty pleads with George to ask out Lorraine but George refuses and tells him "Look, I'm just not ready to ask Lorraine to the dance and not you or anybody else on this planet is gonna change my mind!" and he runs off, leaving Marty with an idea of using radiation suit to pretend he's an alien. So, later on he sneaks into George's bedroom (wonder how?!) and puts headphones on George, puts a tap on Van Halen in his cassette player and turns it on with George leaping up awake clasping his hands on his ears. So, George terrified sees the radiation suit figure and asks "Who are you?!" and Marty plays the tape again and says "Silence earthling! My name is Darth Vader! I am an extraterrestrial from the planet Vulcan!".
Then there is the scene where Marty goes over his plan to help George win over Lorraine and take her to the dance. So, in the scene Marty helps George put out his washing and he asks him "So, at 8.30 where are you gonna be?" and George says "I'm gonna be at the dance" and Marty asks "And where am I gonna be?" and George says "You're gonna be in the car with her". Marty then says "So, right round 9 o'clock she's gonna get very angry with me" and George asks "Why would she get angry with you?" and Marty awkwardly tells him "Because, George nice girls get angry when guys try to take advantage of them". So, Marty then says "Okay? So around nine o'clock you're walking through the parking lot, you see us... struggling in the car. You walk up, you open the door and you say..." and he impatiently says "...you're line, George!" and George realises and says "Oh...hey you get your damn hands off her!".
Another highlight is of course
where Marty plays Johnny B Goode at the prom dance and he starts by saying to the crowd "Alright, so this is an oldie...or at least its an oldie where I come from!". So, Marty starts playing but he gets a bit too
carried away with himself as he goes on, mimicking players like Peter Townsend and Jimi Hendrix and the crowd and the band all stop and look
aghast, and he quietly gets up. And as he hands the guitar back to the singer, he says to the audience "I guess you guys aren't ready
for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it!".
And then there is the scene where Marty is about to go back to the future on the night of the thunder storm at the clock tower and he writes a letter to Doc and sneaks it into his jacket. However, later on Doc takes it out of a jacket and looks at it and asks Marty "What's the meaning of this?!" and Marty tells him "Find out in 30 years!" and Doc shouts "Its about the future isn't it?! Its information about the future! I warned you about this, kid! The consequences could be disastrous!" and Marty shouts over the noise of the storm and says "That's a risk you're gonna have to take! YOU LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!" but Doc tears up the letter and shouts "NO!! I refuse to take the responsibility!". Marty then shouts back "In that case, I'll tell you right out...!" but then the storm knocks down a tree that loosens one of the cables used to conduct the lightning bolt.
Last of all is the scene where Marty back in 1985 with his mum and dad are now a happy confident couple, Biff now running a second rate waxing business and playing subservient to George and in the scene Marty is handed the keys to a new land rover. So, as Marty opens the garage and sees it, he looks delighted as Jennifer walks up behind him and asks "How about a ride, mister?" and Marty looks at her and says "Jennifer! Boy, are you a sight for sore eyes" and he holds her and says "Let me look at you" and Jennifer, a little surprised says "Marty, you're acting like you haven't seen me in a week!" and Marty tells her "I haven't". Jennifer then asks Marty "Are you ok? Is everything alright?" and Marty takes a look over at his parents who look out the door at him lovingly and Marty smiles and says "Oh yeah. Everything is great".
Christopher Lloyd is also great as Doc Brown, the eccentric scientist, who creates a time machine out of a DeLorean car and he has a nice friendship with Marty as it progresses throughout the trilogy.
Lloyd
has quite a few standout scenes such as where in the past he first meets
Marty and is incredulous at first of his theory of being from the
future, and he says "Tell me future boy, who is the president of the
United States in 1985?" and Marty replies "Ronald Reagen!" leaving the
Doc astonished "Ronald Reagen??? The actor????!". Doc then runs out of his house toward a lock-up room (presumably his lab) and he tells Marty "I've had enough jokes for one night! Goodnight future boy!".
Also later when he
plays back the video of himself saying how much energy he needs to power
the time machine, the Doc goes ballistic "1.21 GIGAWATTS???????! 1.21
Gigawatts???? Great Scott!!!" and Marty runs out after him and shouts "What the hell is a GIGAWATT??!". Doc then in another room looks at a picture and he says to himself "How could I have been so careless?! 1.21 gigawatts! It can't be done!". Marty then comes in and pleads with him and says "Doc, you're my only hope!" and Doc says "Marty, I'm sorry but the only thing that's capable generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning" and Marty asks "What?" and Doc says "A bolt of lightning! The only problem is you never know when or where its going to strike!". Marty then remembers the flier he got earlier on in the film and hands it to Doc and says "We do now!" and Doc snatches it from him and reads it as he changes his tune and becomes excited at the prospect of the storm happening at the clock tower and he tells Marty "Next Saturday night, we're sending you back to the future!".
Lloyd's Doc of 1955 also provides some
funny lines due to his overly scientific and logical nature and how he
fails to get some of Marty's figure of speech, such as when Marty says
the situation is heavy, and the Doc says "Weight has nothing to do with
it!" and "There is that word again "heavy". Where are things so heavy
in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational
pull???". And also when at the school the Doc sees the poster the
Enchantment under the sea school dance, and the Doc says "Look! There
is a rhythmic ceremonial ritual coming up!". Marty then excitedly says "Of course, the enchantment under the sea dance, this is where they are supposed to kiss for the first time!" and Doc tells Marty "OK, kid, you stick to your father like glue and make sure he takes her to the dance!".
Also near the end of the film Lloyd has another nice moment with Fox, as the Doc is gunned down by the Libyans as Marty goes over to him afterward, the Doc appears to lie dead, with Marty sobbing, the Doc suddenly opens his eye and he then hands him the letter that Marty wrote him 30 years earlier. And Marty looks at the letter (which was taped back together as the Doc has torn it up back in 1955) and he says "What was all that you said about future events and screwing up the space time continium?" and the Doc smiles "Well I figured... what the hell?!".
And last of all is the final scene of the film where Doc comes back from the future, wearing an outlandish suit and a visor, he rushes to Marty who is with Jennifer and urgently tells him "Marty! You gotta come back with me!" and Marty asks "Where?" and Doc tells him "Back to the future!". Doc then rummages through a bin and picks up some bits of rubbish to put in his fusion engine and as Marty asks what he is doing, Doc tells him "I need fuel! Quick get in the car!" and Marty says "Not now, Doc. Jennifer just got here, we're gonna take the new truck for a spin" and Doc says "We'll bring her along. This concerns here too!". Marty asks Doc "What's gonna happen in our future?! Do we become assholes or something?" and Doc says "Oh, no! You and Jennifer both turn out fine! Its your kids, Marty! Something's gotta be done about your kids!". And as Marty tells Doc to back up to get enough road to get to 88 mph, Doc tells him "Roads?! Where we're going we're not gonna need roads!".
Lea Thompson is also very good as both the middle aged Lorraine at 47,
and the young Lorraine aged 17. And the most amusing thing about Lea's
performance is the contrast between the two characters of the aged out
of shape mother and the young promiscious girl, who ends up falling for
her future son!
Thompson has some funny moments in the film such as her first scene as the young teenage Lorraine who tends to Marty who has come round after being hit by her dad's car.
So, in the scene, Lorraine wipes the sweat from Marty's head with a cloth and (or sponge??) and Marty asks with his eyes closed "Mum, is that you?" and Lorraine says "Relax, you've been asleep for almost nine hours now". Marty then says "I had this horrible nightmare that I went back through time. It was terrible" and Lorraine tells him "Well you are safe now back in good old 1955" and Marty springs up surprised and says "1955?!" and he sits up and sees the pretty teenager that is his future mum, Lorraine. So, Marty shocked at her looks says "You my mu...! You my mu...!" and Lorraine says "I'm Lorraine. Lorraine Baines" and Marty still shocked says "Yeah but you're so ho...you're so ho...thin!".
Also later on in the scene where Marty stages out his plan for George to get together with Lorraine, it backfires a bit when Marty takes Lorraine to the dance and they park the car and she begins to act rather promiscuously with him and also take a swig of whisky. Marty then snatches away the whisky bottle and asks "Where the hell did you get this?" and Lorraine tells him "I stole it from the old lady's liquor cabinet" and Marty warns her "Well you shouldn't drink" and Lorraine asks "Why not?" and he tells her "Because you may end up regretting in later life" and Lorraine dismissively says "Marty, don't be such a square! Everybody who's anybody drinks!"and as he sees her smoke he says "Jesus, you smoke too?!!" and Lorraine says "Marty you are beginning to sound just like my mother!" and Marty looks stunned.
Also in the next scene where Lorraine kisses Marty and just before she does, she asks a very anxious Marty "Marty why are you so nervous?". And Marty nervously says to her "You know, Lorraine. Have you ever been in a situation where you are supposed to act a certain way but when it comes along, you can't go through with it". Lorraine then says "I know exactly what you mean. You know what I do in those situations? I don't worry" and she leans in and kisses Marty, who recoils in fear. Lorraine however then slowly pulls back as she realizes something doesn't feel right and she says
"This is all wrong. I don't know what it is, but when I kiss you its
like I'm kissing my brother! I suppose that doesn't make sense" and Marty relieved tells her "Believe me, it makes perfect sense!".
Thomas F. Wilson is also excellent as the bully, Biff Tannen, who is
even meaner in his younger years back in 1955 as he bullies and torments
George and tries to forcefully woo Lorraine as well.
Wilson has some great scenes also that include the one where we first see the young Biff Tannen back in 1955 as he enters a diner and bullies George into doing his homework for him. So, Biff sees George eating cereal and asks him "Hey, McFly! I'm talking to you, you Irish bug!" and George turns around and says "Oh, hey Biff, hey guys, how are you doin?". Biff then asks him "Yeah, you got my homework finished, McFly?" and George says "Well, as it wasn't due until Monday I figured I would do it..." and Biff suddenly grabs George's face and taps his head and says "Hello?! Hello?! Anybody home?! Think, McFly! Think! I gotta have time to re-copy it. You realise what would happen if I handed in my homework with your handwriting?! I'd get kicked out of school. You wouldn't want that to happen, would you?" and as George says nothing, Biff threateningly grabs George's jacket and says "Would ya?!".
So, George tells Biff "No, no I wouldn't that to happen. OK, so I'll get that done for you and drop by with it first thing tomorrow morning" and Biff tells George "Not too early, I like to sleep in Sundays. Hey McFly you're shoes are untied!" and as George looks down, Biff slaps him in the face and laughs. Biff laughs and says "Don't be so gullable, McFly! I don't wanna see you in here again" and he walks out.
Then there is the scene where we see Biff manhandle Lorraine in the school canteen and she tries to resist him and slaps him and says "Get your kookies off of me! I'm not that kind of girl!" and Biff grabs her and angrily says "Oh yeah! Maybe you are and just don't know it yet!". Lorraine then pushes him away and says "Get you meat hooks off of me!" and Marty suddenly comes up and grabs Biff, pulling him up by his shirt and he warns him "You heard her, get your meat hooks off...!" and but as Biff stands tall, he towers over Marty, who backs off and nervously and says "...uh please!". Biff then angrily looks at Marty and says "What are you lookin at, butthead?!" and he pushes him back and says "You know you've been looking for a bruisin!" and as the two of them are about to fight Strickland shows up. So, Biff stops and smiles at Marty and says "Cos you're new here, I'm gonna cut you a break. So why don't you make like a tree and get out of here!".
And last of all is the scene where Biff confronts Marty at the school dance in the parking lot where Marty is parked with Lorraine. So, in the scene, Biff pulls Marty out of the car and tells him angrily "You cost 300 bucks damage to my car, you son of a bitch! Now, I'm gonna take it out of your ass!" and he throws over to his trio of goons and grab hold of him. Lorraine then leans forward, showing her low cut dress somewhat revealingly and she says "Biff, you're drunk!" and Biff looks and says "Well lookee what we have here!" and Lorraine recoils a bit and Biff suddenly gets in the car with her and he tells the other "Go ahead and take him around back!" but they stand watching him roughly handle Lorraine and he says to them "Well, go on! This ain't no peep show!" and he slams the door.
And last of all is the following scene where George unwittingly turns up at Lorraine's car thinking it to have Marty inside but instead to his horror sees Biff instead. So, as George delivers his line "Hey you! Get your damn hands off..." he suddenly sees Biff and gasps in panic and Biff angrily tells him "I think you got the wrong car, McFly!". Lorraine desperately gets up and pleads "George! Help me!" and Biff warns him "Did you hear what I said, McFly! Beat it! Just shut the door and walk away!" but George finally stands up to Biff and tells him "No, Biff! You leave her alone!". Biff then gets out the car and angrily tells McFly "OK, McFly. You've been asking for it, now you're gonna get it!" and as George makes to hit him, Biff grabs George's arm and twists it behind his back. Lorraine struggles to try and stop Biff who shoves her back and Biff laughs cruelly at her as George's fear turns to anger and tightens his free fist, pulls back and delivers an almighty punch that knocks out Biff cold.
Crispin Glover is also good in his role as the cowardly George, although his make-up as an older man isn't quite so convincing!
Glover (who also resembles the 11th Doctor Who, Matt Smith somewhat!) has some good moments in the film, such as in the scene where he summons up all his courage to go over and chat to Lorraine in the diner.
Marty feeds
George some lines he can say such as "tell her your her destiny" and he
goes over to her and says "Lorraine, my density has popped me to you!
I'm George McFly. I'm your density! I.. I mean your destiny". Also he
amusing scene prior to that where Marty is dressed up in his radiation
suit, who sneaks into George's bedroom, puts the headphones on a tape of
Van Halen blaring out a full volume, which has him leap out of bed!!
And in the next scene he says to Marty "Last night Darth Vader came down
from Vulcan and he said if I don't ask out Lorraine, he's gonna melt my
brain!".
In supporting roles James Tolkan is also great in his role as the disciplinarian school officer, Mr Strickland, who is at the same high
school even 30 years earlier, and he says to George "You are a slacker!
Do you want to be a slacker the rest of your life???!". And when Marty
is back in 1955 and he sees Strickland is still bald he says, "That
Strickland??? Jesus, did that guy ever have any hair?!". And in his
first scene where he hands out tardy slips to Marty and his girlfriend
Jennifer he says to him "I noticed your band is on the roster for the
dance auditions after school. Why even bother, McFly? You don't have a
chance. You're too much like your old man! No McFly ever amounted to
anything in the history of Hill Valley!".
And lastly I will mention Claudia Wells as Jennifer, Marty's girlfriend, whom comforts Marty after his rejection at the band auditions for the school, and he says how his mum said she never did anything when she was younger he says "I think she was just born a nun!" and she says "She's just trying to keep you respectable!".
And later at the end of the film when Marty sees her in front of his newly bought and paid for jeep (due to changing the timeline, George is now a confident and successful sci-fi writer) he says to her "you are a sight for sore eyes!" and she says "Marty you are behaving like you haven't seen me for a week!" and he says "I haven't!". Wells however unfortunately was not able to reprise her role as Jennifer as her mother was diagnosed with cancer at the time of the sequels being made.
DIRECTOR AND MUSIC
Which brings on to the director, Bob Zemeckis, who does a wonderful job
with Back to the Future as he provides plenty of charm, fun and suspense
along the way and he keeps the pace of the film pretty tight as at just
under two hours it never lags. Zemeckis would go onto have a very successful career and as well as to direct the sequels and co-write them with Bob Gale.
The film also has a memorable music
score written by Alan Silvestri, which is at times a bit overbearing in
the way it keeps rising into dramatic crescendos, but its still very good and its main theme is
well worth remembering and to this day is instantly recognizable as well
hummable! And the film also features two great tracks from Huey Lewis
and the News, "The Power of Love" and "Back in Time".
FLAWS (Warning: this section may contain spoilers!)
So, does Back to the Future have any flaws????? Well it doesn't really have too many, as it is a really well written and crafted film which has also really well though out the logistics involved in time travel although it still does have some issues.
First off,
why is it that George and Lorraine never seem to mention or pay homage to
Marty, as years later after Marty helps get them together, but in the
end they put it down to Biff, but excuse me, it was Marty that went and
helped George out and he even thanks him for giving him the advice after
the dance and how "he will never forget it". Well he clearly DID forget
in 1985 that he had the help of a young guy at the same time called
Marty!! Its also bizarre that Marty would wake up in the altered 1985
and his parents see him that they don't put two and two together that he
is the dead spit of the kid who helped them back in 1955! Or am I just
looking into things just a bit too much here????
I also felt the scene near the beginning where the Doc and Marty watch
the DeLorean disappear and makes it maiden travel through time that when
we see the large pair of flame trails left behind, I find it amazing
that the trails doing end up setting Marty and Doc on fire as they are
pretty big! Not only that but they are clearly in the path of the trails, so yeah bit daft that one even if it is a cool effect.
Also the scene where Marty manages to travel forward in
time to 1985 with the Doc's help and the Doc manages to connect the
conducting cables just in time as the lightning bolt strikes the tower,
the lightning surge hits while he has just finished making the
connection, and surely that would have fried him!! But of course the Doc was wearing some gloves at the time so
just maybe they were shield proof from the lightning! I mean if the guy
can build a time machine he can surely build some lightning proof
gloves as well! ;-)
Another niggle was one that was actually raised by Dr Michio Kaku, a
professor in theoretical physics, who made a short feature on the
science behind the time travel of the trilogy and how it is sound, what
isn't is that it would take ALOT more than 1.21 gigawatts of power to
make time travel possible! Kaku also makes an interesting point in how
Doc Brown's usage of the fusion reactor at the end of the film to power
the time machine is ridiculous, as presently fusion reactors in reality
are the size of a football pitch, but somehow the Doc manages to build a
small one into a DeLorean harnessing the same power! But then again it
is a Hollywood film and perhaps Zemeckis and Gale weren't prepared to
delve too deeply into it and Doc Brown is a genius after all so he most
likely found a way to defy or even enhance the laws of physics in order
to make it possible in the first place!
And last of all is the scene near the end where Marty returns to the present in 1985 and witnesses the Libyan terrorists gun down the Doc and his other self travel back in time with the DiLorean and then we see the terrorists van crash into a toll booth for the car park. However surely after this the terrorists aren't dead or probably not even unconscious, so they still have a problem on their hands as they are bound to be still alive and after the Doc and Marty yet the film writes them off as it nothing happened!
Anyway that's the flaws section done.
SUM UP
So, to sum up, Back To The Future remains a modern sci-fi classic, which is both highly entertaining and charming at the same time with its excellent performances, particularly from Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd as well as its suspense with Marty's race against time to save himself and his family by getting his mum and dad together. The film's special effects are also quite impressive with the time travel sequences and indeed even the Doc's hover conversion at the end and the score by Alan Silvestri is also very memorable. And its credit to the director and writers, Bob Zemeckis and Bob Gale respectively that they came with a clever and funny script.
So, there is little doubt that BTTF is one of the best films of the 1980's and as such it deserves the final rating of:
10 out of 10
So, that's it for now and I will be back soon with another look at Back To The Future Part II.
Until then bye for now!
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