Ladies, and gentlemen, today, we review a classic film that has been beloved by many over the past forty years, and just got re-released in theaters a couple weeks ago. Starring people like Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, I present to you all my review of the very first Back To The Future film.
Plot: In the year, high school student Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) becomes friends with scientist Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd). When an incident occurs that gets Doc killed by Libyans, Marty uses a Time Machine that is a flying car, and was built by Doc, to go back thirty years before, in 1955. Now, can Marty find Doc in that timeframe, and warn him of his death so that Doc doesn’t get killed thirty years later?
Well, I will say that I can see why this film is co spidered a classic. Back To The Future, first of all, has a a really great storyline to it. I mean the way this film is set up, it is really creative for how this film has some of the characters, most notably the main ones, go back in time to help change certain aspects of the future. Honestly, part of me was a little surprised that this film wasn’t called Back To The Past, or something like that. Then again, since this film was centered our main characters going back to the past to help change whatever needs to be changed about the future, then maybe it was for the best that this film wasn’t given the title that it was? Likely so! Anyway, in addition to the creativity of the storyline, the characters were well written as well. Truth be told, Michael J. Fox, and Christopher Lloyd as Marty McFly, and Doc Brown respectively especially had a great relationship, almost like a father, and son, or even grandfather, and grandson type of relationship. The movie also did well with portraying what life looked like in both modern times at the time, and life in 1955. Whether it was the music at either time, the building architecture of either time period, you name it. The score by Alan Sylvestri was also really good too. Also, who probably won’t have original songs like “The Power Of Love” stuck in their head for a long while to come? Additionally, there are plenty of elements that help make this film well done, in addition to well-developed characters, and story, like excellent drama, comedy, and more. Also, even if the visual effects may feel a little outdated, they were really good for the time that this movie was released. I’m not sure how people are able to transfer those to the movie screen. Still, however they do it, they do a well done job of it even here. Robert Zemeckis, and Steven Spielberg truly did well with working together to craft such a fun, and wonderful film like this one. Finally, this film could potentially serve as a good lesson in how, though we can’t go back to the past to change the future, nor can we control anyone else’s actions, at least we can learn to change the future for each of our own stories in terms of how we live our lives.
If there were any negatives for this film, it would be that there were some moments throughout this film, particularly character development, and/or maybe even arcs, that probably could have somehow been handled a little better than they were in the end.
And that’s my review for the very first Back To The Future. It has fun, likable, and memorable characters, wonderful comedy, a well set-up story, great suspense, cool action, and more, that help make this film really enjoyable. Truthfully, if you haven’t seen this classic film yet, then definitely go see it! That is if you want to see a classic film that helps serve as a reminder of how much better the quality of films was even back then. So go see it, and see what you think!
Final Rating: 9.5/10
P.S. Happy 40th anniversary to Back To The Future!
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