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- Ebert awarded three stars.
- Ebert found the timeline explanations baffling but the film fun for its sheer goofiness.
Categories & segments
Most Rewatchable Scene
1955 almanac retrieval and chase; Cafe 80s; future McFly dinner.
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- The opening remake of the original ending is rejected after a clarification distinguishes it from the final half-hour.
- Marty's future shoes, Hill Valley, Cafe 80s and hoverboard chase form a strong opening stretch, especially the cafe's celebrity waiters and failed distraction of Griff.
- Marty buys the almanac and Doc rejects using time travel for financial gain.
- Marty returns to the corrupted 1985 and encounters Biff's casino empire.
- Marty confronts Biff about the almanac; this wealthy Biff is praised as perhaps the best incarnation.
- Old Biff demonstrates the almanac to young Biff with the UCLA score.
- The two Docs' brief weather conversation is especially fun.
- Two hosts choose the extended 1955 almanac retrieval, dance recreation and car chase, praising familiar scenes restaged from new viewpoints.
- Another host prefers Cafe 80s and adds the failed future McFly family dinner, including the descending fruit tray and Fox's multiple roles.
The Ruffalo / Hanna / Rubinek / Partridge Overacting Award
Tom Wilson as Griff; Lea Thompson’s Lorraine is runner-up.
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- The elderly 2015 Biff is flagged in advance as the obvious overacting contender.
- Griff is the clear main choice, with Tom Wilson given excessive latitude and the character judged irritating rather than enjoyably villainous.
- Lorraine in the casino is the runner-up, compared with Sharon Stone's hysteria in Casino.
What’s Aged the Best?
Future predictions, Silvestri’s score, Nike shoes, Jaws 19 and the jokes.
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- The successful future predictions and Spielberg's presenting credit.
- Alan Silvestri's score, also remembered from the Universal tour.
- The lack of chemistry or purpose for Jennifer is perversely funny: she is quickly tranquilized, and Zemeckis regretted putting her in the car.
- A comic approach to the future and the Nike shoe concept's eventual commercial influence.
- The Jaws 19 trailer's absurd premise and Max Spielberg credit.
- Fox looked better in real 2015 than the film's aged Marty; the future jokes and the insult slacker still work.
The Great Shot Gordo Award for Most Cinematic Shot
Hoverboard tracking shots; the approaching tunnel during the car chase.
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- The hoverboard chase, especially tracking behind the board, impresses for its practical harness work.
- The approaching tunnel while Marty hangs onto the car is an effective danger image, also suggested for Aged Best.
The Den of Thieves Benihana Award for Scene-Stealing Location
Cafe 80s and Biff’s Pleasure Paradise.
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- Cafe 80s and Biff's Pleasure Paradise tie.
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- Beat It is proposed, then I Can't Drive 55 outside the casino is accepted as the better choice.
The Big Kahuna Burger Award for Best Use of Food and Drink
Rehydrated Pizza Hut pizza.
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- The rehydrated Pizza Hut pizza; a Pizza Hut technician reportedly prepared it on set.
The Vincent Chase Award: Are We Sure This Character Is Actually Good at Their Job?
Jeffrey Weissman as the disguised replacement George McFly.
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- Jeffrey Weissman's heavily disguised replacement of Crispin Glover makes his actual acting ability hard to judge.
The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film
The Crispin Glover replacement and loss of George’s emotional role.
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- The patched-together replacement of Crispin Glover, despite Jennifer being unconscious for much of the film.
- Losing George removes the original's father-son emotional center; all agree this is the film's fundamental injury.
What’s Aged the Worst?
Exposition-heavy Marty, the premise, older teenage actors, Pepsi, Fox as his daughter and the Part III trailer.
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- The formerly groundbreaking multiple-role compositing no longer seems remarkable.
- Marty becomes a nerdy assistant to exposition rather than the original's rebellious rocker, echoing a Jonathan Rosenbaum review.
- The premise could be solved with therapy for Marty's chicken-triggered insecurity and keeping his family away from the Tannens.
- Fox and Shue are too old for teenagers; the film also contains too much Pepsi.
- Fox playing his daughter is strange and unnecessary; Justine Bateman would have made a funnier casting joke.
- Miami in the American League and the Part III trailer ending.
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- Keep Back to the Future Part II; joke alternatives include Marty Still Chicken After All These Years, Electric Boogaloo and Same Game Parlay.
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