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Back to the Future - The Complete Trilogy (Widescreen Edition)

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Media:	DVD
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Starring:	Michael J. Fox
Release date:	25 January, 2005

Average user rating: Average user rating: 4.5

Back to the future, the greatest movie ever?

Back to the future just might be the greatest movie ever.

Back to the future 5 stars
Back to the future part 2 4 stars
Back to the future part 3 3 stars

thanks to robert zemeckis, bob gale, and steven speilberg for making this movie!

Why Was This The Best Science Fiction Movie Ever Made?

Well, there are five reasons.

1. The screenplay's treatment of science. As much as I like science fiction, science fiction fans have developed a jargon which has alienated normal people. SF folks know, for example, not only what a time warp is, they also can explain the general theory of relativity which allows for such a thing. So you have extremely involved scientific theory which must be explained to a lay audience, in such terms that they are not put to sleep. H.G.Wells understood that, and Robert Zemeckis does, too. So, without patronizing the audience or cheapening the literary value, the theory is developed and then illustrated in straightforward, dramatic and accessible terms. It helps that the scientist-hero is lovable but not quite sane.

2. The screenplay's treatment of extremely touchy human issues. OK, so you go back in time and your mother falls in love with you, which is punished by the extinguishment of your own existence. Sound like lighthearted fun? Can you only imagine what Quentin Tarantino would have done with this material? But here, it becomes independent fuel for the plot, made "safe" by mom and son consummating their relationship, only to find that they taste funny. Our socio-sexual mores are protected, and the universe is restored to peace and balance. And they did it in only two shots, too!

To read the other three reasons, see each separate movie DVD.

Part I ****, Part 2 ****, Part 3 ***

This trilogy tells the story of Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Doc Brown's (Christopher Lloyd) adventures through time in a time machine of Doc's invention. The first film is the best; it has more heart than the others as Marty plays Cupid in the 50s to make sure that his parents fall in love and marry the way they are meant to. The second film relies more on zaniness as our two heroes rush breathlessly between the past and future trying to correct paradoxes of their own making. The final film is a let-down; there is some time travel business at the beginning before the story settles down to a standard Western comedy with all of the stereotypical elements. Strengths of the trilogy include the performances of Fox and Lloyd, lots of complex fun with the time stream, and the many inventive ways that the supporting cast is included. A weakness is its tendency to go for the easy joke every time, even at the cost of making our hero seem somewhat dim-witted, such as Fox ordering a Pepsi Free in the 50s or ice water in an Old West saloon, hollering in panic like a cartoon character, or flying into uncontrollable rages at the suggestion that he is a coward.