Great Scott!
To me, this is often a movie (or franchise) that gets overlooked a lot when I see/hear people/critics discussing and debating the greatest movies ever made, ever seen, etc.
Then when it's brought up, everyone goes... oh yeah, love Back to the Future!
Luckily for me, I remembered early, and didn't have to come back and knock another movie off the countdown to make it fit.
The story, for those that have never seen this one...
It's 1985. A young teenager, Marty McFly, meets with his friend, Doc Brown, and the two test a time machine that Doc has built. Terrorists arrive, and young Marty jumps into the time machine...and vanishes back to 1955! However, young Marty has made a terrible mistake by meeting his parents when they are teens, and has set off a chain reaction that will change the future, and make poor Marty cease to exist. He must seek the help of the 1955 Doc Brown to help him fix the time machine and send Marty back...
To the Future!
And so begins one of the greatest time travel stories ever created.
Michael J. Fox plays Marty, and watching the test footage of Eric Stoltz, you realize early just how much Fox made Marty come to life and not be just another teenager. His sense of comedic timing and reactionary acting are essential to the role of the time traveling teen.
Then there is Christopher Lloyd who gave Doc Brown every quirk and mannerism that just make it a joy to watch him onscreen.
Of course, Lea Thompson who does double duty as the mom and Thomas Wilson who steals every scene as the loudmouthed punk Biff round out the cast nicely.
As for the rest of the franchise, it seems that the consensus is Part 2 suffers like most of the sequels to great movies, while 3 brings back a lot of what made the first great. I'd agree with those sentiments, but I still enjoy watching Part 2.
This was the big hit that cemented Robert Zemeckis as a top tier Hollywood director, and began a career of collaborations with Steven Spielberg who was the Executive Producer of this film.
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