Back to the Future Part II

Theater date: 1989-11-22

Blu-ray release date: N/A

Rated: N/A

7.78 (IMDB)

Genre: AdventureComedyScience Fiction

Language: en

Status: Released

Length: 1h 48min

Languages:

English

Description:

Marty and Doc are at it again as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen and a pesky sports almanac. In a last-ditch attempt to set things straight, Marty finds himself bound for 1955 and face to face with his teenage parents -- again.

Top Cast >

Michael J. Fox

As Marty McFly / Marty McFly Junior / Marlene McFly

Christopher Lloyd

As Doctor Emmett Brown

Lea Thompson

As Lorraine

Thomas F. Wilson

As Biff Tannen / Griff

Elisabeth Shue

As Jennifer

James Tolkan

As Strickland

Jeffrey Weissman

As George McFly

Casey Siemaszko

As 3-D

Billy Zane

As Match

J.J. Cohen

As Skinhead

Charles Fleischer

As Terry

E. Casanova Evans

As Video Waiter (Michael Jackson)

Jay Koch

As Video Waiter (Ronald Reagan)

Charles Gherardi

As Video Waiter (Ayatollah Khomeini)

Ricky Dean Logan

As Data (Griff Gang)

Darlene Vogel

As Spike (Griff Gang)

Jason Scott Lee

As Whitey (Griff Gang)

Elijah Wood

As Video Game Boy

John Thornton

As Video Game Boy

Theo Schwartz

As Hoverboard Girl

Lindsey Whitney Barry

As Hoverboard Girl

Judy Ovitz

As Antique Store Saleswoman

Stephanie Williams

As Officer Foley

Marty Levy

As Cab Driver

Flea

As Needles

Jim Ishida

As Fujitsu

Nikki Birdsong

As Loretta

Al White

As Dad

Junior Fann

As Mom

Shaun Hunter

As Harold

George Buck Flower

As Bum

Neil Ross

As Museum Narrator (voice)

Tamara Carrera

As Jacuzzi Girl

Tracy Dali

As Jacuzzi Girl

Jennifer Brown

As Basketball Kid

Irina Cashen

As Basketball Kid

Angela Greenblatt

As Basketball Kid

Cameron Moore

As Basketball Kid

Justin Mosley Spink

As Basketball Kid

Lisa Freeman

As Babs

John Erwin

As Radio Sportscaster (voice)

Harry Waters, Jr.

As Marvin Berry

David Harold Brown

As Starlighter

Tommy Thomas

As Starlighter

Lloyd L. Tolbert

As Starlighter

Granville 'Danny' Young

As Starlighter

Wesley Mann

As CPR Kid

Joe Flaherty

As Western Union Man

Kevin Holloway

As Marty Photo Double

Charles F. FitzSimons

As Biff Photo Double

Crispin Glover

As George McFly (archive footage)

Marc McClure

As Dave McFly (uncredited)

Mary Ellen Trainor

As Officer Reese (uncredited)

Top Crew >

Robert Zemeckis

Director, Characters, Story

Rick Carter

Production Design

Alan Silvestri

Original Music Composer, Conductor

Dean Cundey

Director of Photography

Bob Gale

Producer, Screenplay, Characters, Story

Judy Taylor

Casting

Neil Canton

Producer

Harry Keramidas

Editor

Arthur Schmidt

Editor

Valorie Massalas

Casting

Mike Fenton

Casting

Charles Croughwell

Stunts

John-Clay Scott

Stunts

Richie Gaona

Stunts

Will Cascio

Stunts

David Rowden

Stunts

Greg Wayne Elam

Stunts

Mike Watson

Stunts

R.L. Tolbert

Stunts

Karen E. Laine

Stunts

Pat Romano

Stunts

Gary Morgan

Stunts

Margie Stone McShirley

Art Direction

Nancy J. Hvasta Leonardi

Makeup Artist

Linda DeScenna

Set Decoration

Joanna Johnston

Costume Design

Allen Payne

Hairstylist

Steven Spielberg

Executive Producer

Hazel Catmull

Hairstylist

Ellis Burman Jr.

Makeup Artist

Kathleen Kennedy

Executive Producer

Dorothy Byrne

Hairstylist

Frank Marshall

Executive Producer

Steve Starkey

Associate Producer

Steve Irwin

Video Assist Operator

Larry Singer

ADR Supervisor

Ralph Nelson Jr.

Still Photographer

Mary Andrews

ADR Editor

Raymond Stella

Camera Operator

Walt Hadfield

Construction Coordinator

Jonas David

Production Illustrator

Casey Hotchkiss

Additional Camera

Larry Boyd

Set Dressing Artist

Marc Fambro

Carpenter

Lynn Christopher

Assistant Art Director

Larry Lennert

Greensman

Tom McCown

Leadman

Cary Conway

Painter

Beverli Eagan

Set Designer

Bobby Aldridge

Utility Stunts

Ken Chase

Makeup Designer

Neil Garland

Propmaker

Richard Burch

Driver

Martin Cohen

Post Production Supervisor

Charles L. Campbell

Supervising Sound Editor

John Bell

Visual Effects Art Director

Marion Tumen

Script Supervisor

Robert P. Quiroz

Electrician

Lata Ryan

Production Coordinator

Gregg Baxter

Sound Editor

Suella Kennedy

Visual Effects Producer

Ron Cardarelli

Key Grip

Walter Scott

Stunt Coordinator

Timothy Eaton

Visual Effects Editor

Clyde E. Bryan

First Assistant Camera

Nancy McArdle

Costume Supervisor

David McGiffert

First Assistant Director

James B. Campbell

Orchestrator

Ken Ralston

Visual Effects Supervisor

Albert Romero

Sound Recordist

Joan Bradshaw

Unit Production Manager

Peter Clarson

Gaffer

Earl Sampson

Boom Operator

Jerry Gadette

Standby Painter

Tim Gonzales

Craft Service

Keith O'Brien

Transportation Co-Captain

Michael Klastorin

Unit Publicist

Peter C. Barbour

Assistant Sound Editor

Michael Lantieri

Special Effects Supervisor

Marty Dobkousky

Grip

Tony Brubaker

Stunts

Kenneth Karman

Music Editor

Bonne Radford

Production Controller

Russell McEntyre

Transportation Coordinator

Jerry Sargent

Construction Foreman

Brad Jeffries

Choreographer

John Zemansky

Property Master

Dale E. Grahn

Color Timer

John D. Todd

Best Boy Electric

Paul Pav

Location Manager

William B. Kaplan

Production Sound Mixer

Stevie Lazo

Production Accountant

Wes Takahashi

Animation Supervisor

Dale Henry

Transportation Captain

Kim Bromley

Visual Effects Coordinator

Steve Chandler

Lighting Technician

Dennis Sands

Scoring Mixer

Dawn Oltman

Editorial Coordinator

Al LaVerde

Dolly Grip

Cara Giallanza

Second Assistant Director

Richard Leon

Assistant Property Master

Sid Lucero

Best Boy Grip

Larry D. Davis

Second Assistant Camera

Elizabeth Ann Bundschu

Production Assistant

Thomas R. Homsher

Special Effects Technician

Peter Lonsdale

Associate Editor

Jolanda Wipfli

Camera Loader

Thomas Marshall

Assistant Chief Lighting Technician

Cheryl Wheeler Duncan

Stunt Double

Carolyn Tapp

Foley Recordist

Loring Doyle

VFX Artist

Mark Walthour

Chief Lighting Technician

Colleen Arnaud

Assistant Accountant

Greg Orloff

Foley Mixer

Karen Kubeck

Assistant Makeup Artist

Gala Autumn

Costumer

Ellen Heuer

Foley Artist

Janet Fiona Mason

Assistant Editor

Jalal Pashandi

Assistant Camera

Kevin Havner

Negative Cutter

Susan Spencer Robbins

Assistant Production Coordinator

Bill Baker

Key Rigging Grip

Scott Ross

General Manager

Joni Kearney

Casting Assistant

Judith Weaver

Animation Coordinator

Max Kleven

Second Unit Director

Drew Struzan

Art Designer

Reviews:

John Chard (8/10)

You gotta go forward to save the past and back to alter the future.

Yikes!

Back to the Future Part II sees Marty & Jennifer coerced by Doc into travelling forward in time to correct the future. But Biff is still around and spies an opportunity for untold riches; which he takes. Meaning our three time travelling wonders have to find a way back to the past to stop Biff from changing the course of history.

The gargantuan, and deserved, success of Back To The Future ensured that a sequel would follow. So taking the bull by the horns, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gray crafted not only a sequel, but a trilogy, of which part two is ultimately a sort of interim plot filler for the finale to come a year later. There's no doubt about it, part two is at first a puzzle box of a picture, one that had this particular viewer back in the day venturing in for multiple viewings to unravel the deft, daft, but intricate plot.

I have grown to love part two very much as I have got older, with each viewing tending to reward me just a little bit more. Directed with absolute keenness by Zemeckis, the film moves at such a pace there is barely time to catch breath, something that hardly helps one to follow exactly what is going on. But it does make sense under scrutiny, and as we lurch from one magnificent set piece to another, we find a dark undercurrent of bleakness in amongst the froth.

The makers offer up two visions of the future, one is all colourful and swamped in glorious 80s nostalgia, yet it's knowingly enveloped in consumerism and hi-tech reliability. The other is bitten by greed and almost under despotic control, it's food for thought and rather wry in its telling. Not content with that, the makers whisk us back to 1955 just to remind us that a time of innocence and hope did exist; and simultaneously with skill they repeat the ending of part one with the additional story of part two! Clever eh? The returning cast are again uniformly strong {Michael J. Fox, Thomas F. Wilson & Christopher Lloyd} while Elisabeth Shue confidently steps into Jennifer's shoes after Claudia Wells fell ill and was unable to continue the role. Alan Silvestri's score still packs a cross dimension's punch and the effects crew again come up trumps {it's ace in HD}. It now can be seen as the bridge between two better movies, that's for sure, but I liken it to Spielberg's Temple Of Doom-more darker than the more favourable films in a series; but one that is crucially still having fun. It may be a high-tempo ball of funny confusion at times, but this one, courtesy of it's ream of homages and sly observations, is one of the best trilogy sandwich fillers going.

Munch it. 8/10

2019-07-08

JPV852 (8/10)

This was one I think I was slightly disappointed in when I first saw it in theaters back in '89 and even with subsequent viewings on VHS and DVD, however I've come to appreciate it more over the years post-2000s. Lots of fun though feels disjointed at times going back and forth in time from 1985 to 2015 to alternate 1985 and back to 1955. But I did like the technical aspects re-creating the events of the first movie. 4.0/5

PS: Still remember back in the day seeing a TV special and believing the hoverboard was real, lol.

2020-10-28

Andre Gonzales (8/10)

My favorite out of the series. I like this one better, because your rewatching the 1st one as the 2nd one is helping the 1st one at the same time. So you get to enjoy the 1st one again with new twists added from the 2nd one. But you can't see yourself watching the 1st one while watching the 2nd one, because the 1st one is not suppose to see the 2nd one watching it, and vice versa. Otherwise something bad will happen if the 1st and 2nd one see each other. Lol you get what I'm saying!

2023-04-22

Rob (4/10)

Don't bother. Just rewatch the original again and be thankful.

2023-05-23

kevin2019 (8/10)

"Back to the Future Part II" is a refreshing and inexhaustible source of entertainment and inventive fun for everyone. It features an abundance of memorable action sequences which have been brought to the screen with innovation and skill and great visual imagination. It also draws upon events featured in the original film to create an entirely different slant on the same sequences, but this time around the motivating factors in doing this retread are entirely different. Of course such sequences as these could mean a distinct lack of creative inspiration, but fortunately that is never the case here because they are visually inspired and they only add to the overall fabulous enjoyment to be had.

2024-11-29