No self respecting child of the 80's would not have experienced the brilliance of Robert Zemekiss time traveling duo of Michael J Fox's Marty McFly, or Christopher Lloyd's Dr Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future! Between flux capacitors and garbage guzzling Mr Fusions, this trilogy remains as the best time traveling tales by far, and this includes MCU's Infinity War saga. In fact that said saga references this very trilogy! The main charm of the movies is the chemistry between the two main characters, the incredible VFX, the visual imagery of the past and future and the rocking soundtrack, featuring the likes of Chuck Berry and Huey Lewis and the News. Michael J Fox brings a down to earth earnestness to his role as Marty. This is juxtaposed with the wildly eccentric and other worldliness of Dr Brown, who always has some hairbrain scheme up his unconventional sleeve. Heck he creates a time machine out of a DMC DeLorean! Thrown into all this madness is his childhood sweetheart, his mom and pops, and even the high school bully. Through the time travel lens, we get to see the evolution and devolution of Hill Valley as we shuttle back and forth between the old West, to the 50s, 80's and 2000s. The story always seems to center around a certain clock tower, the site of the first successful manned time travel.
The first entry sees Marty McFly visit his old friend, cantankerous scientist Dr Emmett Brown and his trusty side kick Einstein. Doc enlist Marty's help in documenting his latest hairbrain scheme, to test out his time machine, made out of a gull wing DeLorean. He successfully sends Einstein to the future and back. He is, however gunned down by thugs,who want payment for the illegal plutonium they obtained for him to power the flux capacitor required for time travel. Marty pilots the DeLorean and saves doc. He inadvertently travels back in time and has to seek out a much younger doc who hasn't built the time machine yet. He also encounters his parents, who are still in high school. Marty soon realizes that his dad, George is a loser that has no luck with the girls. To make matters worse, he is constantly getting pushed around by school bully Biff Tannen. A chance encounter with Biff and his goons see him stand up to Biff, causing Biff to crash his car into the back of a truck carrying manure, another running theme in their encounters through the ages. He inadvertently impressed his future mum Lorraine, who is so smitten with Marty, she wants him to be her date to the Enchantment under the Sea event. It's now up to Marty to convince George to stand up to Biff and win Lorraine over. If he fails, he will cease to exist. We see Marty on stage, standing in for the singer, while George finally stands up to Biff and knocks him out cold when he tries to get fresh with Lorraine. With disaster averted, he rushes back to the town square where doc has jerry rigged the DeLorean to be super charged by lightning from a once in a lifetime storm. This works with some hiccups and the clock tower is rendered inoperable. Marty successfully makes it back to 1985!
Stay tuned for part 2.
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