Back to the Future

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thomson, and Crispin Glover
Genre: Comedy/Action/Sci fi 1986
Running time: 116 mins.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★

The year is 1985- but not for long. Because teenager, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is about to be blasted back to 1955 aboard the plutonium-powered DeLorean created by eccentric genius, Doc Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd). But when Marty accidentally keeps his parents-to-be from falling in love, it triggers a time-shattering chain reaction that could vaporize his future...and leave him trapped in the past! Now, Marty's last hope is to change history before the clock runs out on his only chance to get himself back Back to the Future!

This movie is a classic that most of my generation grew-up on! It doesn't hit you over the head that time is the overall theme like you're an idiot, instead its the gateway that leads you to question your own existence and the power of science. The opening sequence of the various wall clocks to the start up of all Doc's equipment, especially the can opener opening Einstein's food and the claw dumping the food into the bowl thats already filled with days of uneaten food, is subtly brilliant. A lot questions are brought up in the film which in turn makes science cool again because the audience is able to relate it to their own lives. Is time travel possible? If so, what are the rules? Are there ways to change those rules without tremendous consequences?  How much has changed in the last thirty years? How did Marty's parents get to where they are and how they met? What were his parents like at his age? How much is he like his parents?

Questions you may never ask yourself or even want to, but what if you were put in the same situation Marty was and your life depended on it? The development of this ideal that time travel so believable and well-thought out that you don't question why its possible, but dying to travel this journey with Marty. So many memorable quotes that you can't go anywhere without lighting up with excitement, when hearing a stranger saying one! The special effects and the make-up are so ground-breaking.

Lastly, the song, Power of Love by Huey Lewis and the News, will forever keep this movie in my top twenty list of favorite movies!!!