Kirk.A great conclusion for a great trilogy Although this one may seem a bit slow in some parts, it is still one the best adventure/commedy movies ever made. In my opinion, the first film is the best in that category. There is a great love story, many hilarious moments, tons of suspense and action. I can watch Back to the Future films again and again and I never get tired of them. A classic.
The Old West scenes were fun to watch, though, and if you have a kid who likes trains, this may be their favorite movie in the trilogy. In this version, Doc's gotten stuck in the past and tells Marty to leave him alone - he's content to be inventing things back in the past, though he must find it frustrating to invent things he can't show anyone - his rule has always been that when you time-travel, you mustn't do anything to change the future.
Marty ends up back in the wild west in the Delorean, the very time-machine that needs plutonium to get it moving fast enough to warp into another time. When he lands, he manages to gouge a hole in the fuel tank, and eventually he realizes he's not going to find much plutonium in the Old West.
Oh, no! Are they stuck in the past forever? Not very likely, as Doc figures out how he can get them back to the future.
It is also frustrating for those of us who enjoy these movies that that some are in DVD, some in VHS, and the first is in limbo. However, eventually they'll all be out in DVD.
For now, I ordered all three in VHS format recently 'somewhere' - the first remains the best and our favorite, but you really have to have them all if you're going to fully enjoy them.
These movies are GREAT for the whole family to watch - we did these as a marathon one week-end, and was it fun. The first one is still the favorite, but that's because it lays the groundwork for this one and the next.
Just a little heads up for parents of young kids -I was surprised in watching this for the umpteenth time, but with a mom's eye and ear, to hear several really unnecessary cusswords scattered throughout all three movies. Oh, nothing to bad, but they could have been left out entirely. My 8-year old's eyes popped open - he knows that swear words are kind of a lazy person's short cut for saying what they want to - usually used by those low in vocabulary, weak on creative expression - but we just frowned a little, scratched our heads, and decided not to worry.
For those who don't have kids and think I'm being too prissy, just wait til ya have kids of your own!
