Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]
Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]
Experience one of the most popular movie series of all time like never before with the Back to the Future 25th Anniversary Trilogy! Join Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) and a time traveling DeLorean for the adventure of a lifetime as they travel to the past present and future setting off a time-shattering chain reaction that disrupts the space time continuum! From filmmakers Steven Spielberg Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale these timeless films feature all-new 25th Anniversary restorations for enhanced picture and sound plus hours of exciting bonus features.Filmmaker Robert Zemeckis topped his breakaway hit Romancing the Stone with Back to the Future, a joyous comedy with a dazzling hook: what would it be like to meet your parents in their youth? Billed as a special-effects comedy, the imaginative film (the top box-office smash of 1985) has staying power because of the heart behind Zemeckis and Bob Gale’s script. High schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox, during the height of his TV success) is catapulted back to the ’50s where he sees his parents in their teens, and accidentally changes the history of how Mom and Dad met. Filled with the humorous ideology of the ’50s, filtered through the knowledge of the ’80s (actor Ronald Reagan is president, ha!), the film comes off as a Twilight Zone episode written by Preston Sturges. Filled with memorable effects and two wonderfully off-key, perfectly cast performances: Christopher Lloyd as the crazy scientist who builds the time machine (a DeLorean luxury car) and Crispin Glover as Marty’s geeky dad. –Doug Thomas
Critics and audiences didn’t seem too happy with Back to the Future, Part II, the inventive, perhaps too clever sequel. Director Zemeckis and cast bent over backwards to add layers of time-travel complication, and while it surely exercises the brain it isn’t necessarily funny in the same way that its predecessor was. It’s well worth a visit, though, just to appreciate the imagination that went into it, particularly in a finale that has Marty watching his own actions from the first film. –Tom Keogh
Shot back-to-back with the second chapter in the trilogy, Back to the Future, Part III is less hectic than that film and has the same sweet spirit of the first, albeit in a whole new setting. This time, Marty ends up in the Old West of 1885, trying to prevent the death of mad scientist Christopher Lloyd at the hands of gunman Buford “Mad Dog” Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson, who had a recurring role as the bully Biff). Director Zemeckis successfully blends exciting special effects with the traditions of a Western and comes up with something original and fun. –Tom Keogh
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars One of the great ones brought back to life
You know there are very few movies out there that take you back to your childhood like this film. I have been waiting for films similar to this to respawn back in the public eye and not only was it a great movie that asked the question of going back in time or in the future and all the trouble it caused. It just made you dream like if you had the ability to do it all over again would you change a thing because some of the changes that were made in this film through the course of 1 2 3 certain decisions made had a great outcome while others left his father dead and a peaceful town in dismay. Very interesting point of views in this film and I love it.
5 Stars I love this movie
Back To The Future is a great series. Very funny! Great ad to any dvd collection.
2 Stars No way. Time to import the UK one.
If you have a BluRay player capable of playing UK BluRays then be sure to get their collectors edition. It comes with WAY more than this. Including a license plate, Delorean bluprints, the sports almanac, and so much more. This version is a completely stripped compared. It doesn’t even come out to being that much more.
5 Stars Back to the Future!
These three films are fun, fun, fun!
The music is good and the situations are hilarious!
5 Stars The Greatest
This is the greatest trilogy of all time. I’ve watched all three movies about 50 times. Of course the second and third movies aren’t as good as the first (and may not even be that great as stand-alone movies), but taken as a three-part story, it is absolutely awesome! Lea Thompson and Thomas F. Wilson deliver fantastic, versatile performances. Fox & Lloyd are a timeless duo. Enjoy the mind-bending time travel saga!
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