Sunday, 24 March 2013

FILM OF THE WEEK (24/04/2013): Back To The Future (1985, Dir. Robert Zemeckis, USA) (Cert: PG) *****


Starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson

 

The year is 1985 and seventeen-year-old Marty McFly is looking for his friend, the older eccentric scientist, Emmett “Doc” Brown (Lloyd). Doc’s been working on a project to travel through time using a time machine made out of a DeLorean car. On the test run, Marty accidentally ends up travelling back to the year 1955 and has to get his parents (Thompson, Crispin Glover) together so he can be born.

 

The film that made the 80’s throwback car, the DeLorean, a cool car to have today, Back To The Future stands alongside the Star Wars films and ET: The Extra Terrestrial (1982) as the absolute peak of the family-friendly sci-fi action blockbuster (although parents be warned, there’s a fair bit of cursing). The film works based on the clever screenplay (though the film leans perhaps a little too much on over-idealistic nostalgia much like Zemeckis’ later film Forrest Gump (1994)) and charismatic acting as well as the cutting-edge CGI. Exciting and endearing in equal measures, Back To The Future is one of the few films that everyone must see, and probably has seen, at least once. 

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