- Studio: Universal Pictures
- Release Date: Nov 22, 1989
- Starring: Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Michael J. Fox
- Summary: After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must return to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to his life 1985.
- Director: Robert Zemeckis
- Genre(s): Adventure, Sci-Fi, Comedy
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 17
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Mixed: 6 out of 17
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Negative: 2 out of 17
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90It twists it, shakes it and stands it on its ear. But as before, the film's technical brilliance is the least of its appeals. Satirically acute, intricately structured and deftly paced, it is at heart stout, good and untainted by easy sentiment.
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80Back to the Future deserved a chance to come back, especially under the cheerful, enterprising, mathematically minded stewardship of Mr. Zemeckis and Mr. Gale. Their new film isn't an ordinary sequel. It's as if the earlier film had been squared.
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Feb 7, 201360Directed and played with terrific verve, this moves so fast from one special effects set-piece to the next that there's no time at all to reflect on the basic ridiculousness of its Chinese box of a plot.
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38The sequel goes down the tubes by spreading itself across four time zones and inviting comparison to the original by spending most of its time back in 1955, where another mess must be set right. [22 Nov 1989, p.35]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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