Recent Reviews for Back to the Future
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MCT:July 24, 2008eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!! lolololololololololololololololololol
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MCT:July 23, 2008I will admit it's a very entertaining movie, and has surprisingly good effects for an '80s film, but a giant portion of the make-up and sidesteam acting was enough to annoy me. i still think it's a great and fun movie to watch
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MCT:July 23, 2008really awsome movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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MCT:July 22, 2008One-Sentence Review:
"Everyone's dream is in reality"
(A Time Travel....Everybody dream this at some point of their life.Christopher Lloyd made an amazing portrayal of Doc Brown.Micheal J.Fox convincing as a Marty McFly.A Timeless Classic) -
MCT:July 21, 2008
"Back to the past"
I saw this movie yesterday, hadn't seen it for a long time and it reminded me how good the american-adventure-movie is. A Classic! -
MCT:July 19, 2008I have to be honest. I haven't seen this movie since I was really small, so I don't remember it very well. But I do remember thinking that it was ok and that Micheal J Fox was really cute!
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MCT:July 17, 2008no es que me haya gustado cuando muy niño, pero la pelicula es buena y se demuestra el talento de zemeckis no como en mamadas del tipo de forrst gump, pero bueno muy bien dirigida la historia es muy coherente y divertida, y creanme ha resistido el paso del tiempo
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MCT:July 14, 2008
this was one of my fav trillagies when i was young, i watched it so many times i had the words memorized lol. i used to love watching Doc and Marty flying through time. and you can't forget einstien, doc's faithful dog.
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MCT:July 10, 2008
By far the best of the three movies in this trilogy. This one I watch on occasion. The others I can't even sit through.
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MCT:July 8, 2008
This is my favorite movie of all time! In fact, I really consider the trilogy all just one long movie. It has all my personal favorite elements - perfect casting, time travel, role reversals, inside jokes (huey lewis nixing his own song),an upbeat soundtrack, colorful costumes, bright cinematography and a well-written script. This movie and the two that followed are flawless, funny and heartwarming.
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MCT:July 6, 2008
Robert Zemekis blends the right amount of everything scifi to make thus fun 1985 scifi comedy, where Marty McFly goes back 30 years into the part through an accident with wacky inventor Doc Brown's time machine DeLorean. That is just the essence of cool. Michael J Fox and Chrisptpher Lloyd are a brilliant dynamic duo.
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MCT:July 6, 2008
Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielburg have worked together on some great films and back to the future is one of the best they have done. this film as a huge ensemble cast including Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Crispin Glover. The first one is a grand 1980's classic.
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MCT:July 5, 2008
This is probably the only movie I've seen with Michael J. Fox and I love him! He was soo cute and 80's teen friendly in this movie!
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MCT:July 4, 2008
Michael J. Fox is perfect for Marty McFly. Doc Brown is brilliant aswell. Really well acted by Christopher Lloyd. I like Doc more than Marty because Doc invents the time machine and he wants to be a famous scientist/inventor but makes me laugh because he sometimes gets things wrong and cant fix things off something that he created himself. The time machine is something that everybody would wish for. No wonder it was such a classic. I love the story. Very good example of a family film. Awesome visual effects, art direction and costumes. Good writing aswell. Funny that Martys mother had the hots for him. Though that that was funny. Biff makes me laugh aswell because he is a bit of an idiot even though he is a vile bully. -
MCT:July 2, 2008
The year is 1985 and a wacky scientist called Doc (Christopher Lloyd) gets help from teenager Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) to document his latest invention: a time machine in the form of a car. But something goes wrong and Marty travels back in time to 1955. With no fuel to get back Marty must find Doc to help him get back home and also get his (future) parents to fall in love with each other. "Back To The Future" is a fun 80's adventure comedy with a great story and acting especially from Crispin Glover, who never seem to get the credit he deserves.
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MCT:July 2, 2008
Absolutely amazing. One of the best movies I've ever seen.. I watch this one 3 or 4 times a year. Classic. Can't say enough about this movie
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MCT:June 29, 2008
This movie is full of adventure, antisapation, suspence and comedy. I love thinking of the possibilites that would come if I could travel through time. I loved this movie as a kid and I still love it today.
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MCT:June 29, 2008Just don't try to think about the time paradoxes that occur throughout this movie and its sequels. It WILL hurt your head.
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MCT:June 28, 2008
a true, true classic. this film is one of my all time favourites, so much so that i have written two essays on it over my years of eduaction. this film appeals to me in so many ways. firstly the plot, a young teenage boy flashes back through time and ends up, through various incidents, meeting his parents. this opens up a world of questions we are left asking ourselves, the primary one of which is, what were my parents like in school. now my parents tell me a few stories of what they were like in school but i am always sure there is something they are not telling me. this film explores that, were youre parents saints?.....of course not they drank and smoked and did all the things that they tell you not to do. this premise also makes for a rather unfortunate outcome and another question....what if your mum got the hots for you?. the characters within this film are instantly appealing, from brilliant performances by Christoper Lloyd and Michael J.Fox we are drawn into the unorthadox realtionship of this teen and his einstein haired inventor friend. when marty (fox) realises that his mother has become 'amerously infatuated' with him he knows that the only soloution is to force his parents together and try and find a way back home. by the end of the film all things have been resolved including his passage home through a glorious special effects feast of lightning and fire. ok so at the end we are left with a resolution that designates sucess with wealth and possesions but that was the 80's. but what we are also left with is the lingering thoghts within out mind of 'what would i do with a time machine'. this film is a highly accessible time travel film that doesn not become too entangled with technical terms, and besides time travel is not the important thing here......its the 'power of love'
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MCT:June 26, 2008
Michael J Fox, is the greatest actor in all of HISTORY and i can't see anyone else EVER doing this part better than he did
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MCT:June 24, 2008
My old time fav! Who else bt Steven Spielberg who directed tis super action packed movie wif its confusing twist n turns bt hv a gr8 ending 2 it.
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MCT:June 24, 2008
wow. this brings back memories. ... i used to rent this movie and watch it on our VCR like everyday! haha
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MCT:June 23, 2008
Back to the Future was a great film, it was a sign of great things to come. The special effects were outstanding for 20 years ago and it had lots of imagination put into it.
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MCT:June 23, 2008
Michael J. Fox plays 17-year-old Marty McFly, a spirited teenager who doesn't seem to quite fit in with his current family, so much so that he spends a great deal of his time helping out an eccentric local scientist, Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd), in his kooky experiments. One night, Doc calls Marty out to an empty mall parking lot to witness his latest triumph, a souped-up DeLorean that he has modified as a time machine. Upset that Doc has used the plutonium given to make a proposed nuclear bomb for his own machine, some angry terrorists gun him down in cold blood, leaving Marty with no other choice than to escape in the DeLorean, which sends him back in time to the date Doc first came up with the idea for time travel, November 5th, 1955, which also happens to be the date that Marty's parents met and fell for each other. Problems ensue when Marty's mother (Lea Thompson), begins to fall for him instead, which would completely negate the existence of Marty and his siblings. Marty must find a way for his parents to fall in love, and get back to the future without the nuclear component necessary, with only the younger Doc Brown to help him.
Back to the Future is, at the same time, an embracing of the cultures of the 1950s and the 1980s, while also a satire poking fun at all of the differences. Perhaps no other actor exudes that Reagan-era young preppy as Alex P. Keaton himself, Michael J. Fox. He embodies many things that the 1950s just aren't ready for, some of which he exploits for his own purposes (such as the rampant fear of alien invasions). While his parents like to look back on their childhoods as an idyllic time of innocence, as presented here, the 1950s seems like an even more bizarre world to live in, with its naïve points of view, repressive relationships, and denial about its own flaws. Back to the Future actually does manage to touch on key differences, such as racism and the imbalance of sex roles, but does so without ever losing the light-hearted energy that imbues the rest of the story.
Over the years, Back to the Future has become a family classic (although it has its share of adult language and themes), and a quintessential 80s film which exuded a wide-eyed charm and a celebration of the geek as part of popular culture. It's a fun and breezy viewing that offers some smart escapism for a while, provided you are willing to go with the flow of the illogical plot in exchange for some laughs and a good time. Like most things Spielberg at the time, it's a populist feel-good movie that should appeal to just about everyone. -
MCT:June 21, 2008BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)
drected by Robert Zemeckis
starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover«Yeah, well, history is gonna change.»
I must have been about to turn 7 when my dad took me to movies to see Back to the Futute Part III. There was a line outside the movie theatre as long as the building. We waited for about 10 minutes and we still hadnt moved forward. A clerck came out of the theatre and said there was no seat left, we werent going to see the film that evening. My dad swore and I was disappointed. That was one of my first movie-related memories, and it still feels fresh in my mind. I had seen the first Back to the Future only once or twice at that time and I guess I liked it since my dad took me to see the Part III in theatre, but its later that I would realize how much I loved Marty and Doc Brown and their time machine.«Wait a minute, Doc. Ah... Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean?»In my young teenage years, mid-90's, I had already developed a great deal of movie knowledge and slowly comprehending what really makes a good movie, but I was still stuck with Hollywood blockbusters, but at least I could tell the good ones from the terrible ones. Back to the Future was a huge hit in the 80's, and it was on TV at least once a year by the time I was 13 or 14. For a little while I thought nothing of that film, but one day I decided to watch it entierly, withouth switching channels at innapropriate moments, thats when it started growing on me, and soon it would become one of my favorite films. It was hilarious, clever, engaging and extremely entertaining.
In H.G. Wells' 1985 novella The Time Machine, The Time Traveller travels in time but not in space, which is a mistake many other time travel stories seems to make. Im no quantum physicist so I could really tell if it really is wrong, considering our planter rotate on itself, maybe that could explain the change of space in time travelling. Anyhow, Back to the Future follows the same logic as Wells' story. The time travel being instantaneous without changing space makes it harder to know when the time really switched. That explains Marty's confusion when he first goes back to 1955 and crash into a barn, especially that he wasnt aware the time circuits were on.Doctor Emmett Brown is considered an old mad man by many, he is an inventor but never seems to have ever achieved anything. Marty McFly is a teenager, like rocking with his band and loves his cute girlfriend, he is one of the few real friend of Doc. Brown, he probably enjoy the insanity of the old man. For once though, Doc. invented something that works, a time machine, out of a DeLorean, a futuristic looking car, for the time, but Doc. has doubtful ways of getting what he needs. To make time travel possible he needed plutonium to created the right amount of electricity, but since plutonium cant really be found at just any corner drug store, he stole it from a group of Libyan terrorists, who wanted him to build a bomb. The night Doc. shows Marty his new invention, the Libyans show up and the teenager has to run away, gets in the DeLorean, travels back 30 years, find himself in 1955 and accidentally jeopardize his own future by meeting his parents when they were his age. With the help of the 1955 version of Doc. Brown, Marty saves the day, and that becomes history.
«What about all that talk about screwing up future events, the space-time continuum?»
Back to the Future is responsible for my fascination with time travel, and I believe Im not the only one in that position. Many people of my generations and possibility people of older generation as well, were introduced to the concept with that film. Of course it wasnt new, H.G. Wells' wrote about it, even before The Time Machine, and many other science-fiction author had wrote about it as well, using different theories and concept for time travel, like Philip K. Dick, in 1956, with his short story Minority Report, which is about a different idea of time travel. In most common time travel stories there are two possibilities. The first one is about going back in time and changing the future, just like in Timecop, with not huge change in the world. Sometimes though, time travel stories are about the paradox of going back in time, trying to change something ultimately triggers the events that made the future what it is, as if it was already written that way, 12 Monkeys is a good example of that. There has been more philosophical time travel stories has well, not involving any machine, like Donnie Darko, which is extremely interesting but its not really related to more classic stories like Back to the Future. This one is more of the first type, but simply by accident, cause the character goes back in time and messes up without knowing what he is doing, but when he realize it, he needs to fix things, which ultimately changes the future a bit, for the better, but with no paradox being hinted, he stays totally the same person, which is actually impossible.«Hey Dad, George. Hey you on the bike.»Back to the Future might be about time travel but its not a special effect movie, its actually a comedy, there are memorable characters and performance. Michael J. Fox was a rising star in the mid-80's and he does a great job as Marty McFly. But Christopher Lloyd and Crispin Glover steal the show as Doc. Brown and Marty's dad respectively. They are both quirky and funny, yet they manage to build compelling characters. Lea Thompson is Marty's mother and she brings all the sexyness that film has. Thomas F. Wilson is the school bully, Biff, also a memorable character.The screenplay by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale is actually quite clever, there are lots of hilarious lines, some are even witty and the plot is well-crafted with ingenious insight about the time period. The acting is in the right tone, the special effects look great and Alan Silvestri's music is absolutely engaging and exciting. Back to the Future is a lot of fun, a childhood classic of mine, but also a classic on its own, one of the fun pieces of filmmaking that makes the 80's not as bad as we all like to claim.
«So, why don't you make like a tree and get outta here?»
