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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 45528
Released: February 10, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Genre: Family
Rating: PG
Release Date: 10-FEB-2009
Media Type: DVD
Description of Back to the Future Part II:
Critics and audiences didn't seem too happy with this inventive, perhaps too clever sequel to the popular 1985 comedy about a high school kid (Michael J. Fox) who travels into the past and has to bring his parents together (or lose his own existence). Director Robert Zemeckis and cast bent over backwards to add layers of time-travel complication to this follow-up, 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 Fox's character watching his own actions from the first film. --Tom Keogh
Back to the Future Part II Reviews:
Antics run high 
2009-10-02 - Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Thomas F. Wilson and Lea Thompson gave an entertaining watch in this sequel to the Back To The Future franchise. Robert Zemeckis embraces the fun and the antics and I really enjoy his ability to tell a story.
back to future II 
2009-09-09 - Very enjoyable - more complex than other 2: watch all three several times: you'll pick up something new.
We gotta go back in time to save the future that we messed up when someone went back to the past and screwed it up. Yep.
2009-05-04 - The day after Marty gets back from 1955, Doc leaves in the time machine to go the future to the year 2015, only to return seconds later (though much more time has passed for Doc). Something terrible happens in the future to Marty's son. Thankfully Marty and his son are the spitting image of each other so Doc has come up with a plan to have Marty take the place of his son for a few minutes to make a correct decision to prevent the bad incident from happening. But while they are in the future, the Biff we know from 1955 and 1985 overhears Marty and Doc talking about their time machine. So Biff decides to change his crappy life by stealing the time machine and going back to 1955 with a sports almanac with all the winners of every sport up to the year 2000. So when Marty and Doc make it back to 1985, it's a very different 1985 than the one that they left. After figuring out what happened, they must once again go back to 1955 to prevent the almanac from being used by Biff so they can save the future that they know. Whew.
I'm a huge fan of the second movie of the trilogy. It used to be my favorite of the trilogy. Probably because of the flying cars and the hover board. Also the more in depth time traveling was definitely nice to have, even though you had to suspend a little bit of belief of how time travel works. Because honestly if Biff goes back in time and changes time, then time should've altered while Marty and Doc were in 2015. To me, the 2015 scenes were cool, but the movie becomes a lot better when they go back to 1955 again. It was a lot of fun to see Marty watching himself do the things he was doing in the first movie. Like when you see him low crawling under a window of the car that part 1 Marty is sitting in with his teenage version of his mother from 1955. Also it was funny to see Fox play multiple characters in this movie such as his son, his older self and even his daughter from 2015. Also it was amusing to see the 2015 Biff ragging on his former 1955 self for being dumb and sounding like an idiot. And also seeing the son of Biff, Griff, was a trip too. Because he's basically the same type of bully his father was in 1955, but more juiced up because of robotic implants. It was even nice to see Zemeckis do an homage to part 1 by having almost the same skateboard scene from part 1 in this movie also, but a more futuristic version of it.
Though it used to be my favorite of the trilogy, I'm starting to lean more to part 1 being my favorite, but part 2 is definitely a close second. Once again, this movie is a classic also and I highly recommend it if you loved part 1.
P.S. - From the first time I saw this move to right now as I type this... I want a friggin hover board!
bttf 2=the film that explain the other 2 in the trilogy
2009-03-21 - what i really like about this film isn't the future-which illustrated somewhat depressing and too artificial and even the characters look unreal or too much made-up. its the fact that this film explain the first film and doc mention in this film that the date 5th november 1955 is a special CORE DATE in the time phase and in all the trilogy. a date in which doc fell and got his head beaten by the sink and then he saw the vision and idea of time traveling,a date in which marty's parents meet and fall in love(which we learn in the first film),a date in which a lightening strike the clock tower and shuting it down and then in this way the marty from first film goes back to the future,and a date that from unknown reason the old beef choose to come back and give the almanac to his young self.from the day after this date,the 3rd movie begin and in this movie we learn more about this core date 5th november and see another angle of this day that we couldn't see in the first film,angle of the other marty that comes again to this date and see the marty from the first movie. this is the amazing part of this film esepecially when the marty from the future has to do his mision-getting the almanac from bif-without disturbing the marty from the first movie making his parents fall in love.
like this fictional core date i think everyone has a core date in their lives when so many important events happen,events that start alot of eras in the future and affect strongly on our lives.
the second interesting thing is the "TIME PARADOX",which is a philosophy of its own,that mentioned in the film.this paradox described by doc as something that destroy the time continum and the universe,but when u try to think what happens if the 2 martys meet and the circumstances its a complex theory of its own-beyond the films. i tried to think what happen if the martys meet and realized that if they meet and the marty from the future alter the actions of the marty from first film,he won't get back to the future(probabely by missing the lightning that strike the clock,and the marty from future wont get to the future and wont return to the past and so on....the whole film destroyed(or universe as doc mentioned)! thinking about all this circumstances is more complex then physics and other sciences,if time travel was a reality there would be a new science that deal with this.
Fun movie, but like "TimeCop" there are paradox's run amok here... 
2009-02-23 - First off, let me say I don't hate this film, but compared to the "Original" & Part "III", this one fails, not because its bad, but because you really have to suspend belief big time here, like most SCI-FI fans I have always liked anything that deals with time travel, so many ideas to play with, but in reality time travel would be quite dangerous, & this film makes that clear in more ways than one, but is poorly executed & here's why....
For starters this one picks up where Part "I" left off with Doc carrying Marty & Jennifer into the future to 2015 to save their future son from being involved in a robbery that will get him life in prison, this would of course be inpulsive to stop this, but from a realistic standpoint Marty & Jennifer's removal from 1985 would have altered the future of 2015 where they would not exist because of their removal.
Secondly, let's ignore that logic for a moment, Marty buying a sports almanac in 2015 would be inpulsive for anyone, I mean hey, why not place bets in the past, right, well old Biff does this very thing by stealing the almanac & the DeLorean & goes back to 1955 & gives the almanac to his younger self thus changing everything from that point foward, when he returns to 2015, he is dying, again, his actions would have altered Doc & Marty's Twin Pine mall meeting in the first film thus altering Marty's trip to 1955 & their trip to the future in 2015.
Now, let's ignore that logic for a moment, the hellish 1985 is done quite well & Marty & Doc's culture shock is fun, but it should have been done differently, with Doc returning from 2015 with the almanac & the 1985 Biff going back to 1955 with the almanac, & Marty & Doc chasing him back before he could give it to himself, this would have been more plausible, again, I don't hate this one, but when dealing time-travel, you have to at least make it believeable, a pre-destination paradox is really the only way to do anything dealing with time-travel, "Star Trek" always did this quite well, as does the "Terminator" films where Arnold & Reese's trip to the past actually set up their futures, & "Star Trek" was always careful about this, as was the first & third "Back to the Future" films where nothing is really altered seriously as in the case of the first "Back to the Future" where Marty interupts his parents meeting but does manage to get them together.
Another flaw in Part "II" is the future scenes, like "TimeCop" they got it wrong, which in essence sort of kills the magic a bit, unlike "Star Trek" or the "Alien" films where the future is set hundreds of years ahead, predicting the near future is always never accurate, Kurt Russell's "Escape From New York" suffers from this as well as Kubrick's "2001" as does one of SCI-FI's best "Blade Runner" if your going to do the future, at least do it in a time where we are all gone.
I hate to nitpick, but no matter how enjoyable & fun "Back to the Future II" is, I feel they should have left the future alone, aside from this, this one is enjoyable, but Part "I" & "III" are more believeable.
