Fox’s Marty McFly stands slack jawed in the middle of Hill Valley’s town square, the same space that was so memorably used in the first BTTF film where Marty was forced to finally accept he’d traveled to the year 1955. It’s kind of hilarious.Īs is the scene in Back to the Future Part II. In fact, when Back to the Future Part II was released in ’89, it’d only been two years since Jaws: The Revenge, the one where the ghost of Jaws went Bahamas and chased the Chief Brody character’s widow to the Caribbean while on a vendetta for what happened in ’75. …Which is something no one would say about the three cash-in Jaws sequels that Universal Pictures green lit in the span of 12 years after 1975.
With its innovative storytelling of leaving the monster to the imagination before finally providing the spectacle in the third act, Jaws is a masterpiece in narrative restraint that could still play for all audiences.
The original Jaws is of course the first modern Hollywood blockbuster and it put Steven Spielberg on the map. Indeed, one of the best bits in the whole film is a slight dig at BTTF’s own studio, as well as the legacy of the film’s producer. Yet what Back to the Future Part II got very right is the numbing horror of something like Jaws 19. There were no real hover boards in 2015 (or 2021 for that matter), nor even automated Texaco pumps. To be sure, part of the charm now is what those wild guesses about the future got wrong-such as the idea we’d all be driving around in flying cars, or even simply own cheap cars that didn’t run on fossil fuels. As a sequel that director Robert Zemeckis and screenwriter Bob Gale never intended to make, the ambitious follow-up to one of the greatest sci-fi comedies of all time was put into production simultaneously with Part III, which may have ultimately hurt the middle chapter since Zemeckis was still shooting scenes filmed in the Old West while editing Part II’s trippy vision of the then distant future…of 2015.Įven so, there are elements in the second Back to the Future that still play like gangbusters today, particularly in the sequences set during 2015. Back to the Future Part II is a strange movie.
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