A coming of age to me, Back to the Future was the very first sci-fi I ever watched when I was young and was also the very film that turned me into a huge fan of watching sci-fi movies and still watch it occasionally due to pure nostalgia. However for those who haven’t watched Back to the Future before, the film is about the story of Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) a typical teenage boy of the Eighties who is accidently sent back in time to 1955 Hill-Valley in a “time-traveling” DeLorean, invented by the mad-scientist Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Llyod.) During Marty’s amazing and often hysterical trip back in time, Marty has the tough task of making his teenage-parent’s meet and fall in love again or else risk being erased out of existence, and also has task of trying to talk to the 1955 version of Doc Brown into fixing the DeLorean and sending him back to the ordinary 1985 Hill-Valley before it’s too late.
However I do believe that this film is undeniably one of the greatest films of the 1980s and indeed, of all time. This is because the film shows some elements of comedy e.g. Biff Tannen accidently driving into a manure truck when Marty McFly is trying to escape on a skateboard (borrowed from a little girl) after nearly being run over by Biff in his car during the chase scene in the film. The film also includes some references to science fiction e.g. in the scene where Einstein (Doc Brown’s dog) is sent back in time in the DeLorean, Doc Brown tells Marty that the DeLorean is electric but needs a nuclear reactor (powered by plutonium) to generate 1.2 gigawatts of electricity for fuel, which of course in reality is not physically possible.
I would also recommend for those die-hard fans of the Back to the Future trilogy and people who have never watched the trilogy before to consider purchasing the 25th Anniversary Trilogy on Blu-Ray, which has been digitally remastered to sound much better, look more detailed, crisper, bolder and a lot more exciting. The new trilogy also includes the classic extras from the previous trilogy, never before seen footage of the “Nuclear Test Site Ending” a brand new 6-part documentary “Tales from the Future” and finally “The Physics of Back to the Future.”
By Jordan Ewbank.
