Back to the Future Review by Thom (5 Stars)

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Starring:
Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Wendie Jo Sperber, Marc McClure, Thomas F. Wilson, James Tolkan, Casey Siemaszko, Billy Zane, George DiCenzo, Courtney Gains, Jason Hervey, Harry Waters Jr., Maia Brewton, J.J. Cohen, George Buck Flower, Claudia Wells

Directed By:
Robert Zemeckis

Written By:
Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale

Back to the Future (1985)

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Movie Review by Thom
April 26th, 2008

Bright Future

Favorite Movie Quote: "Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out that he'd melt my brain."

There may be films about more important subject matter or films that beat out Back to the Future in any number of technical accomplishments, but when you consider everything that Back to the Future is, tucked into a PG-rating that appeals to kids and adults from two very different generations, there's nothing to say but that it's perfect.

Featuring Michael J. Fox at the moment that his career went from TV star to a household name and bonafide box office draw and Christopher Lloyd in the role for which he would be forever immortalized, Back to the Future regaled us with a time travel tale that was not only funny and poignant, but upbeat and optimistic; films featuring time travel are almost always about how bad it is to tamper with the past and about how you need to accept the hand that time or fate has dealt.

Back to the Future takes teenager Marty McFly (Fox), an aspiring musician with little confidence in himself or his family, through an unorthodox hero's journey.

After getting catapulted from his time (1985) to 1955 during his friend Doc Brown's (Lloyd) interrupted experiment, Marty must consult the only person that can help him understand how to get back to the future: Doc Brown, only 30 years before he invents his machine. Unfortunately, before Marty can get to Doc Brown's, he runs across his father George (Crispin Glover) and accidentally intercedes in the moment that led to his parents life together. Marty finds himself in his father's shoes, now the sexual obsession of hotty Loraine Baines (Lea Thompson). Problem? Loraine is his mother.

What ensues is a twisted, paradoxical Oedipus complex taken to its comedic zenith as Marty tries to keep Loraine away from him, get his pops back on Loraine's radar, and keep through-the-ages Mcfly nemesis Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) away from all three of them. Marty also has only one week to pull all this off before he misses his chance to get back to the future - that is, unless he ceases to exist.

Back to the Future is... perfect. Fox and Lloyd are a unique comic duo to which there is no compare, portraying the most unlikely of friends. The things that Marty learns about and through his parents - about them, about himself - are things that we all wish we could know about our parents and selves.

To find a film as great as Back to the Future, one needs only look to the past.

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	Xavier Apr 26, 2008 11:11 AM also wrote a review of Back to the Future
I concur!

	Tim Apr 26, 2008 3:26 PM
"Back to the Future is... perfect." Couldnt have said it better!

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