Product Details

• Actors: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, Casey Siemaszko
• Directors: Robert Zemeckis
• Writers: Bob Gale
• Producers: Bob Gale, Neil Canton, Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Dubbed: French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Universal Studios
• DVD Release Date: February 10, 2009
• Run Time: 108 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (158 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001LXIDW2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,124 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• Learn more about "Back to the Future Part II" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

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Critics and audiences didn't seem too happy with this inventive, perhaps too clever sequel to the popular 1985 comedy about a high school kid (Michael J. Fox) who travels into the past and has to bring his parents together (or lose his own existence). Director Robert Zemeckis and cast bent over backwards to add layers of time-travel complication to this follow-up, 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 Fox's character watching his own actions from the first film. --Tom Keogh

Product Description

Getting back was only the beginning as the most spectacular time-travel adventure ever continues in Back to the Future Part II - the sequel that proves that lightning can strike twice! Picking up precisely where they left off, Marty and Doc (Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd) launch themselves to the year 2015 to fine-tune the future and inadvertently disrupt the space time continuum. Now, their only chance to fix the present is by going back to 1955 all over again before it is too late. From the Academy Award-winning filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis, Back to the Future Part II proves true excitement is timeless.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars THE MOST EPISODE COMPLEX OF THE TRILOGY March 3, 2006

By Dr. Luther Wolfgang Polaris

Format:VHS Tape

IN A NUTSHELL: DOES WHAT A TIME TRAVEL MOVIE IS SUPPOSED TO DO!

This sequel of the superb "Back To The Future" is a very earnest attempt to follow a winning formula up with a truly worthwhile effort in this sequel. Complex, yes, but interesting. Unfortunately, at times it gets a bit too mechanically contrived with the time sequence derivations, and I find myself mentally checking the continuity which detracts from the theme. Nevertheless, if you liked the first "Back To The Future" you will probably enjoy this movie. All the characters are present from the original and they are playing multiple generations almost simultaneously. After all, isn't that what a time travel ovie is supposed to do?

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended! February 14, 2000

By "moviefanatic"

Format:VHS Tape

Marty McFly and Doctor Emmett Brown travels to the future to prevent Marty's future son from facing jail time. They ultimately succeed, and when they travel back to the present (1985), they find everything to be entirely different than the way they left it. They find the source of this problem, and they must fix it in order to return 1985 to it's former state.

Highly enternaining with some humour and great special effects makes this a great film. I like the fact that some scenes from Part 1 are incorporated in this movie. This incorporation is what makes this movie very entartaining... especially the scenes where we see two Martys, or two Doc Browns. I would highly recommend this movie!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Back to the Future Part II(1989) November 6, 2011

By Jorge A. Zarco

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

In 1989, Universal Studios, director Robert Zemeckis and writer/producer Bob Gale brought us Back to the Future Part II. This second film has gotten some bad reviews, but it really is an underrated sequel. Marty(Michael J. Fox) and Doc Brown(Christopher Lloyd) travel to the year 2015 to stop Griff Tannen from sending Marty McFly Jr. to jail. While in the future, Marty buys a sports almanac and plans to use it to bet on sporting events in the past. Doc Brown throws the almanac in the trash and Old Biff Tannen(Thomas F. Wilson) fishes it out of the garbage can. Old Biff steals the DeLorean time machine and gives the book to himself in the past. When Marty and Doc Brown return to 1985, Hill Valley, California has been turned into a crime-filled, gritty, polluted dystopia. Biff is filthy rich and married to Marty's mother, Lorraine(Lea Thompson). Marty finds out that George McFly was murdered in 1973! Marty and Doc Brown must travel to the year 1955 and destroy the sports almanac in order to repair the damage to the time line. Claudia Wells played Jennifer Parker in the first film. In the sequels, Jennifer is played by Elisabeth Shue. Crispin Glover didn't want to play George McFly in the sequels. He's filled in with actor Jeffrey Wisemann playing George McFly, still photos of Glover, and stock footage.
Back to the Future Part II opens with credits playing over stock footage left over from Firefox(1982). Alan Silvestri polished and enhanced some of his music cues from the first Back to the Future. Back to the Future Part II treats us to the sight of Marty using a Hover Board. In 1989, some people thought they were real. We also get to see more of the flying DeLorean. There's sight gags such as Jaws 19 playing in a movie theater and a Max Headroom version of Michael Jackson in the Cafe 80's. Zemeckis pokes fun of himself by putting a Roger Rabbit doll in a window! Zemeckis directed the live action scenes in Who Framed Roger Rabbit(1988). At one point, the scenes in the past were going to take place in 1967. We'd see George McFly and Lorraine as hippies. The producers used 1955 as the past to keep the budget under control. We get to see scenes from the first film at alternate angles. In Back to the Future Part II and III, Marty loses his temper when someone calls him a "chicken"! This never happened in the first film. Back to the Future Part II is an underrated sequel and Back to the Future Part III completes the story arc.