Back to the Future Part II

Rating: ****/*****, or 8/10

Excellent sequel to the (still better) hit film sees Marty McFly travelling both forward and backward in time. First, Marty needs to help his son from staying out of jail in the future year of 2015, where he is again confronted by old adversary Biff and his psycho kid, which culminates in a fabulous hoverboard chase sequence. Upon successfully returning to his own time, he finds his home changed into a dystopic hell town, which warrants him to take yet another trip back to 1955 to set things right. Again. Though high in dynamic action and humour, with grand visions of a funky future and convincingly creepy images of an altered present (that is, the eighties), the movie lacks the overall narrative surprise of its predecessor, though the story parallels between the past, present and future are very well crafted.

Starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson

Directed by Robert Zemeckis

USA: Universal Pictures, 1989