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high schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) doesn't have the most
pleasant of lives. Browbeaten by his principal at school, Marty
must also endure the acrimonious
relationship between his nerdy father (Crispin Glover) and his lovely
mother (Lea Thompson), who in turn suffer the bullying of middle-aged
jerk Biff (Thomas J. Wilson), Marty's dad's supervisor. The one
balm in Marty's life is his friendship with eccentric scientist
Doc (Christopher Lloyd), who at present is working on a time machine,
made out of a DeLorean. Accidentally zapped back into the 1950s,
Marty inadvertently interferes with the budding romance of his now-teenaged
parents. Our Hero must now reunite his parents-to-be, lest he cease
to exist in the 1980s. --Beyond its dazzling special effects, the
best element of Back to the Future is the performance of Michael
J. Fox, who finds himself in the quagmire of surviving the white-bread
1950s with a hip 1980s mindset. Back to the Future cemented the
box-office bankability of both Fox and the film's director, Robert
Zemeckis.
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 Things
have barely settled from the excitement and resolve of the original
Back to the Future, when in pops that crazy inventor Dr. Emmett Brown
(Christopher Lloyd) with news
that in order to prevent a series of events that could ruin the McFly
name for posterity, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox ) and his girlfriend
are whisked into the future to the year 2015 where McFly must tangle
with a teen rogue named Griff, the descendant of Biff, the first film's
bully. Marty foils Griff and his group when he jumps on an air-foil
skateboard that flies him through town at rakish speeds with the loser
bullies beaten again. McFly gets a money-making brainstorm before
hopping in the time-traveling DeLorean and he purchases a sports almanac
for a betting scheme. Unfortunately for Marty, Dr. Brown disapproves
of his betting scheme, because he feels too much messing with time
is very dangerous and he tosses the almanac. However, a hidden Biff
overhears the discussion about the almanac. Biff swipes the DeLorean,
heads back to 1955, with the help of the unerring almanac, he bets
his way to power. "Biff world", the now-altered 1985, has
turned into a nightmarish scene with Biff the mogul, residing in a
Vegas-styled pleasure palace and running everything. It's all up to
our hero McFly can do to pull the pieces together this time, as he
must jump between three generations of intertwined time travel. --Directed
by Robert Zemeckis, with stunning special effects and at the end of
Back to the Future, Part 2, it introduces its sequel as the zany Professor
has already time-dashed away to the Wild West of the late 1800s and
invites Marty into a new adventure. |
 The
final installment in the Back to the Future trilogy picks up where
the second film left off, set in the Old West. Marty McFly (Michael
J. Fox) receives a one-hundred-year-old letter from his inventor friend,
Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd), who tells Marty that he has retreated
a century in time to live out a relatively quiet life in the Old West.
Doc Brown
reveals that he hid his DeLorean time machine in an abandoned mine
outside town, and when Marty does some research and discovers that
the Doc died shortly after writing
the letter, he decides to find the car, travel back in time, and warn
the Doc about his demise. Meanwhile, the Doc, who has fallen in love
with a local woman (Mary Steenburgen), realizes he can't hide in the
past from the problems he has caused to the timeflow in the previous
two films. He reluctantly decides to return to the present with Marty,
but first, they have to find a way to get the DeLorean up to time-travel
velocity
with a broken fuel line and no gasoline. Directed by Robert Zemeckis,
with more outstanding special effects, Part III is a sure delight. |
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