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List Price: $34.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 2452
Released: December 17, 2002 |
| Our Price: $18.56 |
| Used Price: $14.52 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Back to the future i ii & iii trilogy.
Description of Back to the Future - The Complete Trilogy (Full Screen Edition):
Filmmaker Robert Zemeckis topped his breakaway hit Romancing the Stone with Back to the Future, a joyous comedy with a dazzling hook: what would it be like to meet your parents in their youth? Billed as a special-effects comedy, the imaginative film (the top box-office smash of 1985) has staying power because of the heart behind Zemeckis and Bob Gale's script. High schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox, during the height of his TV success) is catapulted back to the '50s where he sees his parents in their teens, and accidentally changes the history of how Mom and Dad met. Filled with the humorous ideology of the '50s, filtered through the knowledge of the '80s (actor Ronald Reagan is president, ha!), the film comes off as a Twilight Zone episode written by Preston Sturges. Filled with memorable effects and two wonderfully off-key, perfectly cast performances: Christopher Lloyd as the crazy scientist who builds the time machine (a DeLorean luxury car) and Crispin Glover as Marty's geeky dad. --Doug Thomas
Critics and audiences didn't seem too happy with Back to the Future, Part II, the inventive, perhaps too clever sequel. Director Zemeckis and cast bent over backwards to add layers of time-travel complication, and while it surely exercises the brain it isn't necessarily funny in the same way that its predecessor was. It's well worth a visit, though, just to appreciate the imagination that went into it, particularly in a finale that has Marty watching his own actions from the first film. --Tom Keogh
Shot back-to-back with the second chapter in the trilogy, Back to the Future, Part III is less hectic than that film and has the same sweet spirit of the first, albeit in a whole new setting. This time, Marty ends up in the Old West of 1885, trying to prevent the death of mad scientist Christopher Lloyd at the hands of gunman Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson, who had a recurring role as the bully Biff). Director Zemeckis successfully blends exciting special effects with the traditions of a Western and comes up with something original and fun. --Tom Keogh
Back to the Future - The Complete Trilogy (Full Screen Edition) Reviews:
great purchase 
2009-11-16 - dvds came new and in good condition, as were listed. came in a good amount of time. would buy from seller again.
Didn't disclose covers condition 
2009-11-08 - Cover was in bad shape. Water damage and spots if dirt all over. Cd were ok inside.
Good movies!
2009-10-21 - Great movies-didn't remember there being as much bad language in them. Have to wait till the kids get older to watch with them.
Received 2002 version!! Not Widescreen!! 
2009-10-13 - I ordered the 2002 version when it originally came out and the discs 2 and 3 were Pan and Scan with black bars at the top and bottom to make it appear it was widescreen. I heard the 2005 version, like advertised on this page had the corrected 2 and 3 discs. I ordered from this description, what did I get? the 2002 version again, saying 2002 on all three discs!! With the same problem on discs 2 and 3. I went to the description page again, and then the Back to the Future Trilogy was under review. I went through the return process with a "refund" being my only option. Hopefully I get refunded the entire amount or the correct version this time.
Great 80s' montage!
2009-10-02 - Back to the future is perhaps the best fantasy/comedy/adventure flick to date! And a great 80s' montage, as well (God, is this really almost 20 years old??). Along, with, of course "Gremlins", "Ghostbusters", John Hughes' movies and "Miami Vice"... But what makes this movie special is, that it seems to have aged a lot less than the other movies of its time - which is a tremendous achievement keeping in mind that this movie somewhat "boasted" with its time-travel special effects. The trick is, effects shouldn't manipulate the movie. Zemeckis was a genius ahead of his time, too many directors haven't learnt this lesson even yet. Why don't they make movies LIKE THIS anymore? Just set a likeable character (college kids seem to work well) in a predicemen, and let him work and stumble - the balance is essential; needs to be comedic, but not a farce - his way out of it through a 1000 minor and major situations and setbacks. All right, this guy "grows up to be" an unlikely hero, but do NOT reward him too much in the end (yeah, yeah, "rolemodels for the kids", blah blah. There is a surplus of "educational" movies, no need to to be ramming it down everybodys' throats every possible chance!). And do NOT forget the darker issues, even a little grown-up material. Only the really-really-unimportant side characters are to be card-board stereotypes. Special effects come LAST. Keep up the pace, etc etc. BTTF can also boast with its pace: comedic stuff from the starts and about a dozen "endings": great sentimental peak when George FINALLY punches Biff->We move to Marty having to play the guitar->the kissing scene (with a delay and a twist)->Johnny B. Goode-> and only THEN we move to "going home" with its problems- more than just a few plus running against the clock... and yet, after the "happy end" we're left with a great closing scene! Talk about a roller-coaster-ride! Your hands squeezing the nearest pillow. ANY more suspense or action and you'd and up a nerve-rack. Action, adventure and comedy, fitting for all ages. If you don't like this movie, there there just has to be something really wrong with you.
