Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23574 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-12-26
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 112 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Filmmaker Robert Zemeckis topped his breakaway hit Romancing the Stone with this joyous comedy with a dazzling hook: what would it be like to meet your parents in their youth? Billed as a special-effects comedy, the imaginative film (the top box-office smash of 1985) has staying power because of the heart behind Zemeckis and Bob Gale's script. High schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox, during the height of his TV success) is catapulted back to the '50s where he sees his parents in their teens, and accidentally changes the history of how Mom and Dad met. Filled with the humourous ideology of the '50s, filtered through the knowledge of the '80s (actor Ronald Reagan is president, ha!), the film comes off as a Twilight Zone episode written by Preston Sturges. Filled with memorable effects and two wonderfully off-key, perfectly cast performances: Christopher Lloyd as the crazy scientist who builds the time machine (a DeLorean luxury car) and Crispin Glover as Marty's geeky dad. Followed by two sequels. --Doug Thomas

Synopsis
A fast-moving and heart-warming comedy, 'Back To The Future' presents the story of Marty McFly, a teenager from 1985 who commandeers the time-travelling DeLorean invented by Doc Brown, a wacky scientist friend, and is accidentally sent back in time to the 1950s. But the real problems start after he inadvertently disrupts the first meeting between his future parents - and his mom ends up falling for him instead. Eliciting help from the inventor of the time machine (who is now 30 years younger), Marty must untangle the reverse oedipal knot he's created, or he will never be born. If he can't influence them to fall in love, he might never exist! And if he somehow manages to succeed, he must then find a way to get 'back to the future'.

Customer Reviews

Interesting time travelling adventure
This Oscar winning (1986 Best Effects) fantasy adventure came highly recommended to me by a number of people and I was delighted when I watched it.

The first film I watched where Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd starred and both performed tremendously. Lloyd captures the essence of the crazy doctor beautifully and brings an eagerness for life to the protagonist. His jokes and sheer craziness are highly enjoyable to observe. Fox also performs to a great standard with his portrayal of the stereotypical teenager Marty McFly. His dealings with his love life, bullying and school dealings are convincing and pleasing to teenagers alike.

The story is very imaginative and thoroughly detailed. The doctor creates a time machine in the form of a great fashionable car with all the gadgets contained and sends the young kid back to 1955. The sheer imagination and likable qualities of the overall plot and characters are enough to capture the hearts of the audience, even if at times it seems over exaggerated.
It's very interesting to see the teenager meeting up with his parents when they were teenagers, having many funny ideologies contained makes the film very likable and crazy.

Such a basic storyline was developed so well because we are able to see two very different settings from the 80's and 50's and how the residents from the different ages reacted to different situations. Coming from the future Marty brings his knowledge of his time to the 50's and is interesting to see what his parents and other residents think of him and his uniqueness. There is always a lot of tension surrounding the plot. The car scenes are exciting and the dealings with the time travelling are also captivating.
The jokes are well used but some are predictable and exaggerated.

It's a film where the whole family can sit down and enjoy. There are ideologies of loyalty, friendship and love constant throughout. We have many teenage conventions such as high school crushes, bullying and jobs etc present. Audiences can therefore understand these and appreciate the situations which the characters are dealing with. At time these elements jump too far ahead of themselves but overall the film has a unique likeness to it and the characters are all very funny stereotypes and very likable.

A fast paced time travelling film worth seeing

One of the most entertaining movies of all time!
From the time when i was a kid to the present day, i've probably seen this movie over a hundred times, literally! Yet, there's still something that drives me back to it again and again. There are various new little details i discover each time i watch it. Simply fantastic.

"You built a time machine...out of a DeLorean!"
If you could go back in time and meet your parents as teenagers, what would you do? This is the basic premise of the 1985 classic 'Back to the Future'.
Marty McFly(Michael J Fox) is a typical teenager from small-town America who loves typical teenage things like music, girls and skateboarding. His best friend is eccentric inventor 'Doc' Emmet Brown(Christopher Lloyd) who builds a time-machine out of a sports car which inadvertently sends Marty back to 1955. Through a series of mishaps, Marty stumbles upon his teenage mother Lorraine(Lea Thompson), and father George(Crispin Glover), and accidently prevents them from meeting and falling in love. Having to put history straight and work out a way to return to his own time, Marty seeks out the 1950's version of his friend 'Doc' Brown in the hope that, between them, they can get Marty 'Back to the Future'.

Spanning not one but two sequels, 'BTTF' was a blockbuster hit on its release in 1985. The basic plot was conceived when director Robert Zemeckis was looking through his parents old school yearbook and wondered what it would be like to meet them when they were teenagers. Eventually, Steven Spielberg came on board and the rest, excuse the pun, is history.
Michael J Fox is perfectly cast as the All-American teenager dreaming of success with his band and his girl. Opposite Fox, Christopher Lloyd looks as though he is having the time of his life playing the near-insane 'Doc' Brown. The supporting cast also do a wonderful job, with Thomas F. Wilson hamming it up nicely as the almost pantomime villain, Biff Tannen. The dynamic between Fox and Lloyd is fantastic, keeping the energy needed to carry the tension of the plot, while simultaneously providing comedic and tender moments to lighten the load. Zemeckis effortlessly weaves in a few sub-plots to reinforce the 'cause and effect' message without releasing the pace. The set pieces are wonderfully put together and the scene with the lightning strike at the clock tower is cinema gold.

I first watched this film when I was 11 and was absolutely captivated. The theme of time travel and alternate history was so fascinating that every time I watched it, I seemed to notice something new such as the 'Twin Pine' shopping mall becoming the 'Lone Pine' mall when Marty returned to his own time after running over one of the 'twin pines' in 1955. This film is ultimately an extremely enjoyable fantasy romp with a lovingly nostalgic nod to the 1950's. The irony is, that watching the film now, I feel nostalgic for the 1980's!