Back To The Future Review
In fact it could all have been a disaster.
Back to the future review. But back to the future is even more hopeful. Fox and his friends are in physical jeopardy. It argues that you can travel back in time to the years when your parents were teenagers and straighten them out right at the moment when they needed help the most. I m back on track.
Back to the future cemented the box office bankability of both fox and the film s director robert zemeckis who went on to helm two equally exhilarating sequels. Reviews back to the future roger ebert july 03 1985. Parents need to know that back to the future is a 1980s time travel favorite that includes scenes in which main character marty mcfly michael j. It could all have been so different.
A bully initiates a mostly off camera assault on a high school girl there s a violent attack in which a key character is thought to be killed a van chases a teen on a skateboard and more. Back to the future stands up on its own as a well oiled brilliantly edited example of new school spielberg cultivated thrill craft one that endures even now that its visual effects and haw haw references to pepsi free and reruns seem as dated as full service gas stations apparently did in 1985. Under the splendid direction of robert zemeckis who also co authored the screenplay with bob gale back to the future is a joyous flight into the domain of a teen ager s fantasy. At the end of 1984 director robert zemekis who had been shooting his second movie back to the future for over a.
Back to the future directed by robert zemeckis then became a summer box office win that spawned multiple sequels and propelled michael.