Review of Back to the Future Part II (1989) by Jonathan Rosenbaum for Chicago Reader — 17 Feb 2010
The problem with all the time-travel high jinks, involving multiple versions of the major characters (a gimmick that Robert Heinlein handled much better in stories like “By His Bootstraps” and “All You Zombies—”), is that in order to make the plot even semiintelligible, writer Bob Gale and director-cowriter Robert Zemeckis have to turn all these characters into strident geeks and make the frenetic action strictly formulaic.
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This review of Back to the Future Part II (1989) was written by Jonathan Rosenbaum and published by Chicago Reader on 17 February 2010.
Back to the Future Part II has generally received very positive reviews.
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