BACK TO THE FUTURE 30th ANNIVERSARY TRILOGY



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BACK TO THE FUTURE 30th ANNIVERSARY TRILOGY


Traveling to Blu-rayTM, DVD and Digital HD with Ultraviolet on 5th October 2015



Starring: Christopher Lloyd, Michael J. Fox, Thomas F. Wilson, Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson
Director: Robert Zemeckis


“Wait a minute, Doc. Ah... Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean?”

Back to the Future TrilogyIt’s a simple premise from which a true masterpiece was created. Plot-lines are layered upon each other to create a multi-stranded storyline that intrigues as much as it entertains. Filled with high-brow humour and high-concepts Back to the Future is the quintessential 80s movie that lays a genuine claim to being one of the best movies ever released.

The difficulty with any time travel film is getting the continuity right, yet Back to the Future does it faultlessly, so carefully plotted that it stands up to repeated viewings and analysis, always offering more on each viewing.

Brilliant inventor, Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) retrofits a DeLoren car as a time machine, using the ‘flux capacitor’ that he dream up after falling and hitting his head. But at the initial test he’s killed by a group of angry Libyan terrorists who want their depleted uranium back that the Doc stole from them to power the flux capacitor.


“Are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear?!”

Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) jumps into the DeLoren, floors the accelerator and guns the car up to 88mph - which unwittingly triggers the time travel circuits and sends him back in time to 1955. Once in the past and without an energy source to power a return trip he must track down the younger version of Doc Brown to help him get back to the future.

Written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale and directed by Zemekis, the plot is inventive and funny as well as flawlessly written and acted. The lead actors, Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd work incredibly well together riffing off each other beautifully. The supporting cast of Thomas F. Wilson (Biff Tannen) Crispin Glover (George McFly) and Lea Thompson (Lorraine Baines) are so perfect for the roles that they’ll forever be known for these performances.

What are you looking at, butthead? Why don’t you make like a tree… and get out of here?!

Not only does Back to the Future perfectly capture the zeitgeist of the 80s (skateboards, Star Wars), it also recreates the 50s with love and affection (diners, rock ’n’ roll). This gives the film a warm nostalgic feel that’s hard to beat. And after the extremely high standard set by the first film, it was always going to be a tough task to make the second and third films measure up. Shot at the same time and released fairly close together, the second film takes Marty and Doc Brown to 2015 (and then once again back to the 50s) and the third film takes them all the way back to the Wild West of 1885. They are both, sadly not as powerful as the original, proving that it really is difficult to predict when lightning will strike (unless you know it’s going to hit the clock tower, producing 1.21 gigawatts of energy)…

Despite this the sequels still offered fun and humour. But how do you recreate perfection? Recent attempts to reboot or remake Back to the Future have been blocked by Zemekis and Gale who say they will fight against remakes even after their deaths. Such love for their movies is testament to how wonderful they really are and the amount of respect they so richly deserve. They’d never be bettered and how do you ever remake Back to the Future without Michael J. Fox or any of the original cast? You quite simply don’t. These films will live on forever as examples of film making at its absolute highest.

Watching Michael J. Fox play Johnny B. Goode at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance… it gives me chills just to writing about it.


“It’s a Blue’s riff in B, watch me for the changes and try to keep up”

And as he tears into the opening riff, made so famous by Chuck Berry it’s a true movie delight… one of the highlights of a film packed with great scenes. Back To The Future is one of the finest examples of a cast and crew that came together at the peak of their respective careers and really made the best film that they could. I can’t think of a film that really deserves higher praise than Back To The Future.


“Hey, Doc, we better back up. We don’t have enough road to get up to 88… Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.”

Available on Blu-rayTM & DVD, the Back to the Future 30th Anniversary Trilogy will include all three movies plus a new bonus disc with two hours of content. The bonus disc includes all-new original shorts, documentaries, two episodes from the animated series and even an all-new original short named Doc Brown Saves the World!starring Christopher Lloyd. Plus Looking Back to the Future: A 9-part retrospective documentary from 2009 on the trilogy’s legacy and 2 episodes (“Brothers” and “Mac the Black”) from the 1991 animated series. It’s a great set and very reasonably priced. One to add to your collection, perhaps even if you already have it on DVD and Blu-ray as there are a few new exciting offerings to be had here.