Back to the Future

With a slightly different car

Back to the Future is very good adventure movie that also has quite a good story line, a bit of comedy in places and a very good musical score. It also helps that the special effects aren't bad either.



The story goes something like this:
Marty McFly is a teenager in the mid 80's in an average school in an average suburb in America. One gets the feeling that both the suburb he lives in and his parents have seen better days / missed life to a degree. His father is busy doing his bosses work while his mother doesn't seem to be too excited with life.

Marty has an eccentric friend whom he calls Doc, Doc is an inventor. We see some of Doc's inventions and they seem to work well enough most of the time. Doc invites Marty to meet him in the parking lot at the nearby shopping center early one morning.

Here Marty is shown Doc's latest invention, a time travelling DeLorean, the car is of course nuclear powered. Keeping in mind that you can't just go down to the local hardware shop and buy some Plutonium. Doc acquired it from some terrorists whom manage to find him at this moment. They aren't happy that they don't have a bomb made from the Plutonium, and come in guns blazing.

Marty escapes in the car, but activates the time travelling mechanism, and is transported back 30 years to the mid 50's. He now has a few problems, one the Plutonium is all used up, and he inadvertently alters history, taking his father's place in the initial key encounter between his mother and father.

Marty manages to track down a younger Doc for help with the car, he also has to get his parents to fall in love with each other. All while not causing any major changes in history which could have disastrous consequences in the future.

Doc comes up with a plan to use the power from a lighting strike, Marty has the advantage of knowing when and where lighting will strike. The other problem isn't so easy, and the clock is ticking because he has to be in the right place at the right time to harness the lighting strike.

In the end it all works out, it is Hollywood after all. This can be watched with some of the kids, maybe not the younger ones, it is rated PG after all.