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 | | 6. Back To the Future | | | Starring: Michael J. Fox Director: Robert Zemeckis | | Format: DVD Release Date: 2/10/2009 |  | Back to the Future - DVD Review By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 1/30/2009 4:47 PM | |
A classic adventure that holds up perfectly today aside from a few green-screen gaffes, Back to the Future is a quintessential '80s flick that combines science fiction, action, comedy, and romance all into a perfect little package that kids and adults will both devour. I know I did when I saw this film as a teenager, anxiously wishing I could zip back in time too to stand up to a bully, right some wrongs, and otherwise fix the mistakes that I made... never mind my parents. Michael J. Fox is perfect in the lead role (though the film was original half-shot with Eric Stoltz in the lead), but Christopher Lloyd ("Damn! Damn damn!") steals the show as Doc Brown, whose Delorean time machine enables all the madcap adventures that follow. read the full review | |
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 | | 16. Family Ties-5th Season | | | Starring: Michael Gross Justine Bateman | | Format: DVD Release Date: 3/10/2009 | | Family Ties - The Fifth Season - DVD Review By: Jordan Richardson - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 3/14/2009 11:36 AM | | Ronald Reagan’s favourite television series was the '80s sitcom Family Ties. This presumably had a lot to do with the idea of conservatism appealing to youth after the cultural liberalism of the '60s and '70s. Family Ties marked a major shift, showcasing a main character aspiring to wealth, business success, and more traditional conservative values. "When else could a boy with a briefcase become a national hero?" asked the show’s creator, Gary David Goldberg, during the program’s final season on the air. And so it was that the “boy with a briefcase,” Alex P. Keaton (Michael J. Fox), would vault into the public’s consciousness as a conservative actually capable of human interactions without throwing Bunkeresque fits. read the full review | |
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 | | 32. Back To the Future 3 | | | Starring: Michael J. Fox Director: Robert Zemeckis | | Format: DVD Release Date: 2/10/2009 | | Back to the Future Part III - DVD Review By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 1/30/2009 4:47 PM | |
Ah, this is the one you see on cable TV all the time. I'm not sure why, but I suppose it's because Back to the Future Part III holds up on its own as well as the original and much better than Part II, which kind of abruptly ends in the middle of the story. This is the old west part of the tale, which begins when Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) is inadvertently sucked back to 1885, and through a convolution of events, Marty (Michael J. Fox) heads back there as well to save Doc's life. Eventually there's another problem preventing the duo from returning to 1985: There's no gasoline for the Delorean in 1885 and they can't get the car up to the required 88 miles per hour. Whoops. read the full review | |
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 | | 33. Back To the Future 2 | | | Starring: Michael J. Fox Director: Robert Zemeckis | | Format: DVD Release Date: 2/10/2009 | | Back to the Future Part II - DVD Review By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 1/30/2009 4:47 PM | |
Back to the Future takes a darker turn with this first of two sequels (which were shot together, perhaps for the first time in film history that more than one film was made simultaneously for a staggered release), in which the relatively quaint and simple time travel arc from BTTF gets far more confusing and, in some ways, more fulfilling. The setup from the first film -- Marty's son is in trouble in 2015 -- turns out to be a MacGuffin and of little consequence. The real point is to get Marty into the future and to get a now aged Biff into the Delorean and back to 1955, where he gives his younger self a sports almanac that lets him instantly become a millionaire through sports betting. read the full review | |
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