In his original review for Back to the Future Part II, Roger Ebert (the Alpha and Omega of film criticism) called the movie “an exercise in goofiness, an excursion into various versions of the past and future that is so baffling that even the characters are constantly trying to explain it to each other.”
Although his review was largely a positive one, his sentiments echoed those of audiences who felt that Part II was an exercise in contrivance — one marked by baffling character choices, strange plot details (ditching Jennifer from the story), and the overwhelming darkness of the alternative 1985 sequence, and a cliffhanger ending that sidelined the feel good elements of the first film for something strange and unfamiliar. Which is exactly what a sequel should do, i.e. The Empire Strikes Back.
Cut to 2020 and all of us are living in the Biff Tannen’s Pleasure Palace timeline, so...
Although his review was largely a positive one, his sentiments echoed those of audiences who felt that Part II was an exercise in contrivance — one marked by baffling character choices, strange plot details (ditching Jennifer from the story), and the overwhelming darkness of the alternative 1985 sequence, and a cliffhanger ending that sidelined the feel good elements of the first film for something strange and unfamiliar. Which is exactly what a sequel should do, i.e. The Empire Strikes Back.
Cut to 2020 and all of us are living in the Biff Tannen’s Pleasure Palace timeline, so...
- 10/23/2020
- by Chris Cummins
- Den of Geek
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