Amazon.com Essentials:
Critics and audiences didn't seem too happy with this
inventive, perhaps too clever sequel to the popular 1985 comedy about
a high school kid (Michael J. Fox) who travels into the past and has
to bring his parents together (or lose his own existence). Director
Robert Zemeckis and cast bent over backwards to add layers of
time-travel complication to this follow-up, and while it surely
exercises the brain it isn't necessarily funny in the same way that
its predecessor was. It's well worth a visit, though, just to
appreciate the imagination that went into it, particularly in a finale
that has Fox's character watching his own actions from the first
film. --Tom Keogh
