Back to the Future - The Complete Trilogy (Widescreen Edition)

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Superlative, 2009-01-07
**this review relates to the cinematic content original 1985 feature only** br / br /PLOT br /A young man, who has somehow befriended a passionate old scientist, is by way of cause and effect (and a naff car fitted with a plutonium-powered time travel device) transported 30 years into the past. Here, in 1955, the car runs out of plutonium and the young man befriends the younger, less experienced scientist in a desperate attempt to return to 1985. Complications arise when he meets his teenage parents... br / br /REVIEW br /Dated elements of production design and product placement fail to detract from this highly entertaining family adventure. The script is witty, humorous and particularly credible in its amateur consideration of the time travel phenomenon. The special effects are beyond their time, and editing and sound are first rate. br / br /With regard to the overall production and direction of the film, this is Robert Zemeckis's greatest achievement - hands down it beats Forrest Gump (1994), for which he one an Oscar for direction. While Stephen Speilberg served as executive producer only, "Back to the Future" is also one of his greatest films, because it epitomizes his contribution to cinematic imagination. br / br /The chemistry of the lead actors - Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd - has perhaps been equalled but is yet to be surpassed on the big screen. They are supported in several hilarious situations by talented newcomers. br / br /I am giving this film the highest rating because family adventures like this aren't made anymore and I want to encourage Generation Y to seek out this film in particular. For us Generation X-ers, and even most of our parents, "Back to the Future" will remain one of the pillars of 1980s cinema. br / br /ELEPHANT STAMPS br /Michael J Fox for Acting. br /Christopher Lloyd for Acting. br /Crispin Glover for Acting. br /Huey Lewis and the News for theme song "The Power of Love".

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Good, but may not work completely in a DVD drive on a PC, 2008-12-30
I loved these movies when they came out and had seen one and three many times but had only seen the second one in the theater the initial time. br / br /The packaging is good and the styling of all three discs and menus are identical. br / br /I'm not much of an audiophile, but the 5.1 sound seemed to work fairly well. br / br /I have two gripes about this product: br / br /- The film is grainy and the details are poor. You can't really fault them for that since you can't get better than the original film quality. br / br /- The Back to The Future II disc does not work on my Vista Home Premium PC. I get audio but no video. This is consistent in Media Center and Windows Media Player. However, this was just a minor inconvenience as the disc worked fine on my Xbox 360. Perhaps Back to the Future 2 uses a CODEC that hasn't been invented yet. br / br /Good product, but don't count on all of it working on a PC.

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I love this movie!, 2008-10-26
Back to the future is my favorite movie of all time. From beginning to end it is so beautifully executed. Top notch directing, acting and editing with a score to rival "Star Wars". A sweet film the whole family can enjoy, they don't make'em like this anymore. The sequel's were fun too, but this puppy is lighting in a bottle!

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Back to the Future Triology DVD, 2008-10-11
I have alway liked these movies and was pleased with buying all 3 at the same time.

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This series is pretty McFly for a white guy, 2008-10-08
This is as typical of a teen eighties movie as you can get, in fact the eighties might have been the decade that those teen movies were invented, if not then this is when they definitely got popular. The formula is generally the same, there is a self assured kinda rebellious young man who sometimes gets in trouble, has a nice girlfriend, and gets into all kinds of trouble. He listens to cool music, says "ayyyyyyy" a lot, and most of the time has some sort of mullet. Some of the teen movies are good, some of them awful, but this one is a cut above the rest, Back to the Future is one of the best movies of the 1980's, and 80's superstud Michael J. Fox leads off this excellent movie. He plays Marty McFly, a high school kid who hangs out with the crazy scientist Dr. Brown, a wacky spaced out inventor played to perfection by Christopher Lloyd. The performances of Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd and their chemistry really are what make this movie they are perfect for their parts and really make this the movie that it is. br / br /The plot is very nice too. We see Marty McFly's neighborhood before anything was there, and it was just open land. We see the small town he lives in when it was much smaller in size, and there wasn't so much expansion. We see a lot of cool stuff in this movie. This is a movie that holds your interest through the entire thing. I have to admit I am a science fiction fan, and I have always been fascinated wit the concept of time travel, and while this movie is a complete fantasy (they travel back in time in a Delorean) It is also interesting to see the makeup jobs in this movie, we see characters 30 years in the past, and we see 40 year old people playing people who are twenty years old and vice versa. The highlight of the movie remains Christopher Lloyd, who plays what might be his best part ever, he is just too funny for words, and is so over-the-top he gives this movie the perfect tone, and compliments everyone around him with his great performance. br / br /The story progresses nicely, the last half hour is priceless, as we see Michael J. Fox play Johnny Be Good to a crowd who has never heard rock and roll as we know it. Then he goes back to the future and he almost misses it. The movie has the Quantum Leap aspect of it as we see what opens when you alter the past which affects the present in ways we never would have thought of. This movie is both a nice timepiece for the fifties and the eighties, showing at least the way that people in both time would like to have thought they were, in an idealistic world, so the movie is interesting like that, and has a nice touch of comedy, and science fiction here. The two genre's mesh well here, and sometimes Science Fiction and comedy don't always go well together. (see Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) It is also kind of funny to see the time period conflict with each other, we see things that are done in the eighties, and not in the fifties and vice versa. While there are no belly laughs in the movie there are enough jokes and enough interesting moments that will definitely make you think, this is not a socially conscious movie by any stretch of the imagination, but it is something that is very interesting. This movie is probably the centerpiece of Michael J. Fox's film career, he rarely had a films this successful other than the two sequels, and this was a monster hit for the day. While it is one of the best eighties movies it is also one of the best about time travel, corny it might be but Back to the Future remains one of the best of it's kind, it's kinda hard to classify, but of whatever genre it is, it is one of the best. br / br /