Growing up in a small town called Hill Valley, young Marty McFly lives a simple life. Not until one day Doc Brown, a "mad scientist" in the town, tells Marty that he has built a time machine. After careful preparation, Doc is ready to send Marty back into the past. Whilst a few terrorists hunt down and kill Doc, Marty is sent back into the past just in time (put intended). He is sent to the year 1955, a whole thirty years before present time. He is quickly greeted with the town he lives in thirty years later. Stopping into a diner, Marty finds his dad, and they are the same age. After witnessing some boys bullying his father, he follows George McFly. George heads to Marty's mom's house, Lorraine, and watches her change in the window. He falls out of the tree he was perched in and was almost ran over by Lorraine's dad's car, but Marty pushes him out of the way. This movie hones in on the idea that any small change in the past can have huge implications for the future, and this was the first example of that. Marty is housed by Lorraine, spending time with his mom in the past. There was one dilemma, thought, Lorraine develops a crush on Marty. Talk about implications. Marty then does his best to unite his mother and father so he can exist in the future, while pissing off some bullies in the process. Marty was forced to ask Lorraine to the school's prom, so George and him develop a plan to get George with Lorraine. After some small roadblocks and a 6'4" one for good measure, George and Lorraine fall in love and everything goes to plan. Marty makes it back to 1985 with the help of Doc from the past and everything is back to normal.
Let's start with the negatives, since I have more to say with the positives. I didn't like it when Marty survived in the end, not because I'm a heartless human, even though that's correct, but because he ripped up the note in the past! It just doesn't make any sense. Doc dying in that scene with the terrorists would've been epic in my opinion. He could've died doing what he loved. I felt really uncomfortable while watching the scene where the school bully kisses, or does something even worse, to Lorraine without her consent. This is 1985 we're talking about, it's too early for serious topics sprinkled in classics like that. My final gripe, although minor, was how the movie was self-aware that it would be a smash hit. If they didn't make another one, the ending would be pointless. With all negative criticism aside, this movie was amazing! I really loved watching this movie, especially because of all of the present day time travel movies that were built over this one. I immediately fell in love with the plot. This movie killed it with the idea that a boy goes back in the past and meets his parents at his own age, while making sure they ended up together. The funniest part of this movie was when Marty was sitting at the dinner table with Lorraine and her family and she flirted with him. Now that's what I call risque. I also enjoyed the scene where the bullies chased Marty and ran into a truck full of manure. The prom scene for the most part was really enjoyable, I especially loved when Marty played music from the '80s and said "your kids will like this". Alongside all of these scenarios throughout the movie, a big highlight was the "back to the future" scene, where everything worked out perfectly at the last second after everything went horribly wrong. The major characters are all fleshed out and you could tell what their goals are. The camerawork in this film was spot-on and looks like the camerawork in movies today. The costumes were great, especially Marty's life jacket. Overall, this movie was outstanding and most definitely blew my expectations. I can't wait to watch the rest of the films in this series (even though they'll probably be garbage).
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