When Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) receives the hundred-year-old telegram from Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) at the end of Back to the Future Part 2, telling him that he’s alive and well in the Old West, it also has another tidbit of information – that he’s hidden the time machine in an old cave outside of town. But Marty needs some help getting it running.
So he returns to town just in time to see himself leave to go back to the future for the first time, and he surprises the original Doc (the 1955 Doc), and tells him all about what’s happening. Or at least, enough so that he doesn’t know anything about his future, because Marty doesn’t know that Doc has read the note that he gave him, telling him about the terrorists in the original Back to the Future.
With Doc on board, he gets some help getting the DeLorean back up and running, and using the Mr. Fusion to generate the power, Marty heads back to 1885 to see if he can rescue Doc and head back to 1985 – which will hopefully be the same as they left it!
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This movie starts what is perhaps the classic time-travel trilogy. While it is definitely not the most serious of films, that may be what is most charming about it. The fact that Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), a high-school kid from California, can jump in a car in order to save himself from Libyan terrorists may seem dated now, but in 1985 when the movie came out? This was classic cinema. Okay, that might be a bit over-the-top, even then. But what makes the movie is that it’s fun to watch.
Marty is friends with Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd), and Marty receives an invitation to meet Doc at the mall one night to help film a science experiment. When he gets there, he finds that Doc has turned a DeLorean into a time machine, and a somewhat surprised Marty watches as Doc sends Einstein (Doc’s dog) through time in the car. It all goes awry when the Libyans show up to demand their uranium back. I mean this is good stuff!
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Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) returns in this sequal to the 1985 smash Back to the Future.
Though four years have elapsed since the original, little has changed in the movie, and in fact it starts right where the first one left off – in the driveway of Marty’s house, right after Doc (Christopher Lloyd) has dropped him off after their adventures in time.
The only major difference is that Jennifer, Marty’s girlfriend, is no longer played by Claudia Wells – instead, Elisabeth Shue takes over.
Other than that, it’s pretty much business as usual – except that Doc has returned from the future, and he’s got some bad news. It seems that Marty’s kids (and Jennifer’s – they are married in the future) are getting into trouble, and they need to make sure that they can save them. Thus begins the second episode of the trilogy. What happens when they get there sets the stage not only for this installment, but the next one as well.
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Family on April 21st, 2006 by Chad Everett
The inimitable Walter Matthau stars as Mr. Wilson in this live-action telling of the classic comic strip tale, and if that’s not enough, comic veteran Christopher Lloyd plays a role as Switchblade Sam, the robber nabbed by Dennis in the film.
Sure, it’s a bit of fluff, but it’s also a good fun film that the family can enjoy. The younger kids will enjoy the physical comedy, while the older kids can enjoy the dialogue and even the adults can get a laugh from the film too, without feeling as if they’re losing brain cells while listening to another rendition of another sappy song for the umpteenth time. It’s a fresh change of pace if you’re in need of something that’s okay for the kids to watch.
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