Back to the Future: The Complete Trilogy (Widescreen Edition)
by Laurent Bouzereau, Robert Zemeckis
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Actor: Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, Michael J. FoxDirector: Laurent Bouzereau, Robert Zemeckis
Brand: Universal Studios
Writer: Laurent Bouzereau
Writer: Robert Zemeckis
Producer: Bob Gale
Writer: Bob Gale
Producer: Frank Marshall
Producer: Kathleen Kennedy
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 342 minutes
Published: 2005-01-25
DVD Release Date: 2002-12-17
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
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- Condition: Used, Very Good
- Format: DVD
- Anamorphic; Box set; Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; DVD; Subtitled; Widescreen; NTSC
Movie Reviews of Back to the Future: The Complete Trilogy (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: Films That Will Last Into The Future
Summary: 5 Stars
First of all, whoa to those who have never seen the "Back To The Future" trilogy. These are fantastic Steven Speilberg films that have become 80's cult classics. Action, fantasy and adventure abound within these three small discs.
Okay, first let's start with "Back To The Future." I don't even remember when I saw this film for the first time; probably when I was about 6 or 7 years old. This 1985 film features Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Crispin Glover. Fox plays Marty McFly, an average-joe 80's kid who loves his skateboard, his electric guitar, his girlfriend and helping his scientist-inventor friend Dr. Emmett Brown with experiments. Lloyd is Dr. Emmett Brown, who with his poofy white hair, wide eyes and enthusiastic attitude, comes across as the perfect "mad scientist" with big plans of inventing a successful time traveling machine out of a Dalorian. Glover plays George McFly, the nervous, nerdy father and high school kid (back in 1955) with an uncanny knack for letting people like the fast talking user-bully, Biff, intimidate him. Thompson plays Lorraine Baines/McFly, the somewhat too laid-back, matter-of-fact mother and boy crazy high schooler in 1955. Marty McFly's life is about to change after, through an exciting and somewhat tragic sequence of events, ends up traveling back in time to the year 1955 in Dr. Brown's time machine. Suddenly, Marty is out of place in a world where a "Tab" is not a soft drink, juke boxes rule diners, "The Jackie Gleason Show" is brand new, and life preservers are not a fashion trend. Now Marty, filled with culture shock and confusion, has to figure out how to get back to 1985, but he soon finds out that time is limited and that the people, places and events he comes in contact with will change the future. Marty only has so much time to make things right in 1955 and get back to 1985 before his very existence is erased. It will take Dr. Brown's help, a lot of timing, a clock tower and a certain thunderstorm. The romantic advances of his own mother, convincing his father that he needs to take his mother to the dance, and of course the wrath of big bully Biff (Tom Wilson), are just a few of the obstacles that Marty will have to overcome on his journey back to the future. It's a wild ride from start to finish. Pulling the film together is a very urgent, exciting orchestral soundtrack along with some great songs including Huey Lewis and The News' "The Power of Love" and "Back In Time."
1989 brought us "Back To The Future II" picking up where we left off in the first movie. If you thought the first film was mind-boggling and complicated, BTTF II is all that and then some. The whole crew returns in this ultra wild ride filled with non-stop heart pounding action. Marty is once again caught in a time where culture shock fulfills him. The year 2015 features places like "The Café 80's" where computers literally take your order and "Pepsi Perfect" is a popular drink of choice. Skateboards? That's old school. Try "Hover Boards;" boards with no skates that literally fly. Shoes lock onto your feet, and fancy rubber-like jackets have a built-in adjuster and dry-cleaner. This year is where the adventure unfolds. When Marty and his girlfriend Jennifer literally fly space-age style from 1985 into the year 2015 with Doc Brown to take care of some "future" trouble involving their kids, they soon learn what can happen if Doc's time machine falls into the wrong hands. Our old pal Biff is an old-timer now, waxing cars for his mirror-image bully grandson Griff. After a conflict in the "Café 80's" involving Marty's son Martin Jr., Marty Sr. and Griff , Marty (sr.) and Griff go on another wild chase similar to one of the chases in the first film. Not long after, both Marty and Jennifer find themselves at their future home and are able to see themselves as middle-aged adults as well as witness all the new technologies around their home. Imagine your fingerprints being your "key" to the house. Imagine making a fresh Pizza Hut pizza right in an oven. But the adventure really starts when Doc Brown throws a sports almanac from the years 1950-2000 in the trash that Marty had bought at a retro store as a souvenir in the hopes of placing some winning bets when going back to 1985. A certain old man that we all know and love ends up with both the almanac and Doc's time machine. By the time Marty, Jennifer and Doc return to 1985, their nice town of Hill Valley is literally a wounded battle zone of graffiti, guns, smashed cars, bikers and barred windows, save for an enormous and luxurious building conveniently titled "Biff's." There is no more George McFly, and guess who Marty's new stepfather is? Marty now finds his life in the balance again and his mom a bit "bigger" than he remembered last. After realizing what has happened, Marty and Doc Brown end up heading back to 1955 to undo even more than before. Obstacles this time involve avoiding their other selves from their previous trip back to 1955 in the first film and to not let anyone or anything tamper with their current mission as well as the mission that their other selves were on from their previous trip. Oh yeah, and the biggest obstacle of all is Marty having to steal a certain sports almanac from a certain young high school bully. Who might that be now? Yep, it seems young Biff had a surprise visit from a "distant relative." Marty must get this almanac back in order to make the 1985 that he remembers in Hill Valley come alive again, or else the alternate 1985 could leave Marty in "hell" forever, or even dead. The adventures of Marty, Doc and the time machine go non stop to the end where we're left wondering what's to happen next. Let's just say that some lightning sucked Doc Brown back a little further in time. Again, the outstanding and exciting orchestral soundtrack is back to keep your heart pounding and you'll also get to hear Michael Jackson's "Beat It" along with Sammy Hagar's "I Can't Drive 55."
The final chapter in the "Back To The Future" trilogy came in 1990, with BTTF "Part III." Picking up where we left off from Part II, Marty must go back in time to the old West; 1885 to rescue Doc Brown and bring him back home to 1985. After learning from the Hill Valley cemetery that Doc had died from a gunshot wound in 1885, Marty enlists the help of the 1955 Doc Brown to help him uncover the time machine that had been stored for several years, fix it up, and go back to the old west. There Marty is out of place once again in the rugged terrain of Hill Valley where cowboys and Indians are abundant, horses are the only mode of transportation other than trains, saloons are the main hangouts complete with women of the evening and you can go to an actual bath house to wash yourself up. Oh yes, and the beloved Hill Valley clock tower is just being built. Rickety houses and shops and dusty dirt streets dot the rather scenic land. Good things and bad things come with the old west for both Marty and Doc. Marty runs into his immigrant Irish ancestors, Doc falls in love with the beautiful Clara (Mary Steenburgen) after rescuing her and both Marty and Doc have to fend for themselves against the old west bully, Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen and his cronies. Doc is faced with painful decisions concerning love and the future and Marty needs to survive a high-noon quick draw shooting contest with Mad Dog. Doc shows us his dancing skills at the town fair, while Marty shows off his gun slinging skills. Doc almost gets his head blown off and Marty was about to become the victim of a good ole' fashioned hanging. As a blacksmith, Doc makes horseshoes and invents ice machines for tea. With all this old west charm, the two have to find a way to get the Delorian pushed up to at least 80 miles per hour. With the help of a rigged train and a old fashioned hold-up, Marty and Doc may be able to do just that. But it is a wild ride of speed and explosions that involves the two as well as Clara, and their initial plan could be altered making Doc's future (er....past) different. The original orchestral soundtrack takes a rather intense western tact with harmonicas and themes that are reminiscent of the old western movies. It also features ZZ Top's "Doubleback."
There are lots of extras including the making of all three films, commentaries from the cast and crew, bloopers, deleted scenes and more. The acting is great, the music is memorable and the special effects were a true asset to the 1980's in film. The "Back To The Future" trilogy are definitely films that will be timeless well into the future.
Summary of Back to the Future: The Complete Trilogy (Widescreen Edition)
Experience theiComplete Trilogy!Presented by Steven Spielberg directed by OscarŽ winner Robert Zemeckis and starring time travelers Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd the phenomenally popular Back To The Future films literally changed the future of the adventure movie genre. Now this unprecedented Back To The Future DVD Trilogy immerses you in all the breathtaking action outrageous comedy and sheer moviemaking magic of one of the most brilliantly inventive wildly entertaining motion picture triumphs in Hollywood history!System Requirements:Starring: Michael J. Fox Christopher Lloyd Crispin Glover Elisabeth Shue and Lea Thompson. Directed By: Robert Zemeckis. Running Time: 344 Min. (Total) Color. These films are presented in "Widescreen" format. Copyright 2002 Universal.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: PG UPC: 025192212123 Manufacturer No: 61022121Filmmaker Robert Zemeckis topped his breakaway hit Romancing the Stone with Back to the Future, a joyous comedy with a dazzling hook: what would it be like to meet your parents in their youth? Billed as a special-effects comedy, the imaginative film (the top box-office smash of 1985) has staying power because of the heart behind Zemeckis and Bob Gale's script. High schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox, during the height of his TV success) is catapulted back to the '50s where he sees his parents in their teens, and accidentally changes the history of how Mom and Dad met. Filled with the humorous ideology of the '50s, filtered through the knowledge of the '80s (actor Ronald Reagan is president, ha!), the film comes off as a Twilight Zone episode written by Preston Sturges. Filled with memorable effects and two wonderfully off-key, perfectly cast performances: Christopher Lloyd as the crazy scientist who builds the time machine (a DeLorean luxury car) and Crispin Glover as Marty's geeky dad. --Doug Thomas
Critics and audiences didn't seem too happy with Back to the Future, Part II, the inventive, perhaps too clever sequel. Director Zemeckis and cast bent over backwards to add layers of time-travel complication, and while it surely exercises the brain it isn't necessarily funny in the same way that its predecessor was. It's well worth a visit, though, just to appreciate the imagination that went into it, particularly in a finale that has Marty watching his own actions from the first film. --Tom Keogh
Shot back-to-back with the second chapter in the trilogy, Back to the Future, Part III is less hectic than that film and has the same sweet spirit of the first, albeit in a whole new setting. This time, Marty ends up in the Old West of 1885, trying to prevent the death of mad scientist Christopher Lloyd at the hands of gunman Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson, who had a recurring role as the bully Biff). Director Zemeckis successfully blends exciting special effects with the traditions of a Western and comes up with something original and fun. --Tom Keogh
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