

However, in the meantime Jennifer has been found by the police and taken to the future Jennifer’s house… And while Doc and Marty try to fix that too, old Biff steals the time machine to give young Biff a sports almanac with the results of the last thirty years to allow him to make a lot of money with bets and change the future!Īnd here’s the only flaw of this otherwise perfect film: unlike in the first movie, the logic of time travel is betrayed here. Things don’t exactly go according to the plan, but more or less the ending result is satisfactory. Doc quickly puts Jennifer to sleep to keep her from getting into trouble, and sends Marty to impersonate his son to reject a shady proposal from Biff’s son ( Thomas F. Marty and his girlfriend Jennifer ( Elisabeth Shue) are transported thirty years into the future by Doc Brown worried about saving their family from big legal troubles (that future, 2015, is already our past and I haven’t seen any flying cars yet, unfortunately). And they did well, as all the films in the trilogy were a box office success and also maintained the excellent quality standards of the first movie, which wasn’t easy given how good that was.Īnd now let’s talk a little about Back to the Future: Part II. And if we believe Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, that ending was just a joke, it wasn’t built on an idea for an entire movie! Kudos to them, they used that joke very well by making a great sequel, and also one of the best trilogies ever!Īnd let me open another parenthesis of admiration for the two Roberts who in 1989 did something unheard of before: with great foresight, they simultaneously shot the second and third chapters of the saga, which is now common practice for the films belonging to huge sagas, but which more than thirty years ago was absolutely revolutionary. Fox) about something that will happen to his family. Actually, it opens with a remake of the last scene in which Doc ( Christopher Lloyd) arrives from the future to warn Marty ( Michael J.

Back to the Future Part II ( 1989) picks up right after the end of the first chapter which had been shot four years earlier.
