The Back to the Future movies were/are really popular only with the relatively smart. Geeks. While there are enough quick cuts, slapstick and action to satisfy the lower brows, they don't get how clever the movies are. Well, the latter two, anyway.
The first of the set
was a teen movie, no question, not particularly bright and it doesn't age as well as the other two. It's ok, the Delorean was a cute idea, and Michael J. Fox is the only person who could have played Marty McFly (teen frustration and air-headedness personified), so yes, the casting was good. Christopher Lloyd, as always was thorough and intense and very funny as Doc Brown, even when the script doesn't give him anything funny. It's sweet and nostalgic for those of us who saw it as children in the eighties. Note: In 1999 the BTTF formula was reversed and tried as Blast From the Past with Brendan Fraser who was being thrown into the innocent-grown-up-child roles left vacant by Fox. In Blast From the Past Fraser plays (essentially) a man who grew up in the early fifties/sixties transported to the nineties. Excellent score.Back to the Future 2, however, is where director Robert Zemeckis and writer Bob Gale come into their own. More on that here.
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