
Great Scott! 1.21 jigawatts of entertainment
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Fresh-faced Michael J. Fox as alliterated time-travelling skateboarding meddler Marty McFly, crazy-haired bumbling ranter Christopher Lloyd in one of his most memorable roles as the eccentric genius professor and the swan-song of the ill-fated Delorean (complete with 'flux-capacitor', oh yes) offer 4 hours of top-notch entertainment, even today, 20 years after its original Uk release.
IMDB does a very good job of summarising the plot, which goes a bit like this:
Part 1: Eccentric Doc Brown invents time travel; young Marty McFly goes back in time, stops his parents from meeting; they must, or he won't be born.
Part 2: After visiting 2015, Marty must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985... without interfering with his first trip.
Part 3: Marty travels to 1885 to keep Doc Brown from being murdered.
There's an awful lot of nonsense about messing around with time and trying not to meet your parents before you were born and hence stop yourself existing etc... but mroe importantly this movie is so much fun and so universally accessible it deserves to begiven some kind of World Heritage award.
On a superficial level it brings up some good questions about how travelling to the past would affect the present (not as profound as so many other films, the underrated Millennium (Michael Anderson, 1989) is a terrible film but a terrific story) but in the end its about 80 kitsch, flying skateboards and hugely entertaining portayals of different periods of America's history. Not to mention a classic soundtrack, especially on the first film.
Buy it!
Watch it!
And as Dr Emmett Brown would say: "By my calculations, when that baby hits 88 miles an hour, you're going to see some serious s**t."
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