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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24218 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-12-02
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 112 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review

Dr. Emmett Brown: Then tell me, "future boy," who is president in the United States in 1985? Marty McFly: Ronald Reagan. Dr. Brown: Ronald Reagan? The actor?! Who's vice president? Jerry Lewis?

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-school student Marty McFly (Michael J Fox, during the height of his TV success) is catapulted back to the 1950s where he sees his parents in their teens, and accidentally changes the history of how Mom and Dad met. Filled with the humorous 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, Amazon.com

Special Features
English
Region 2

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'.

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Customer Reviews

'Back to the Future' was way ahead of its time...kind of...
I don't like kids today passing comment on this film. This film is not for them. It is for me, and the many, like me, who saw the film in the cinema in 1985.

It's ironic that a film dealing with going into the past, should inspire, in me, the longing for the eighties that probably equalled many people's longing for the fifties when they first saw it.

For me, everything is pitch perfect. The comedy balances confidently between smart and slapstick and the adventure element is still exciting now. Sure, special effects have come a long way since '85 but it's testament to Zemeckis and Gale that it doesn't really matter. It never was an effects movie anyway.

The real joy is the relationship between Marty and Doc. Oh, and Marty and his dad. His mum, too. Actually, what would you do if you could speak to your parents when they were your age? I still think to this day that I would have little to say to them. But that is a question for a media studies student, not an Amazon review.

I'm not saying that if you weren't nine in 1985 that you shouldn't watch it. But if you were, you probably love the film more that anybody else.

Timeless classic
This is an absolute classic. I first saw it in 1986 when I was seven and it will always have a special place in my heart. The not-too-showy special effects and the fact that a car was used as the machine instead of some outlandish-looking contraption makes the film more "believable" somehow and therefore more exciting. I just wish the the producers hadn't made the two sequels to this film as neither of the sequels were able to replacate the atmosphere of the first instalment. The simplicity of the first film is the source of most of its charm in my opinion. I don't bother with the other two films: this is the one I've watched over and over again.

The film i have seen most in my life
1985 - Back to the future is released to the world and i was 8.

Fastforward a few years and BTTF is shown on TV on xmas day. So i watch and record it on my parents VCR. So started a sequence of events that would shape my sister and my saturday evenings for over a year. EVER saturday night we would watch this MARVELLOUS film and never were we bored with it. There is so much to watch for in this film that much of it we missed on the first, second, third showings. Approx 2 hours of hollywood at it's best.

Micheal J Fox is amazing as Marty McFly and Robert Zemecks (of Forrest Gump fame) is excellent as director. Steven Spielberg even had an input (I think he was a producer)

What is particularly good is that this film will appeal to such a wide variety of people. It's funny, exciting, thought provoking and has given me more hours of enjoyment than any other film.

If you haven't seen it, give serious thoughts to renting or buying as you're missing out on what i can only describe as a classic