Back to the Future Part II (1989) MOVIE REACTION!!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!! 

I remember in 2015, everyone who grew up with the movie series (including me) were all making comments on social media about how there were no flying cars or hover boards yet. 😂

Griff had issues with his bionic implants. Doc mentioned this to Marty. It helps explain why he seemed almost mechanical in his mannerisms and speech.

Thomas F Wilson is actually a really sweet guy, but he’s so talented at playing such a monster of a human being.

The time travel in this series is pretty solid and makes general sense, but it’s different from more recent movies with time travel. There is one time line, not a multi-verse. When you change something in the past, it effects the future. However, there is an effect that Doc called temporal flux where changes in the timeline take “time” to “catch up” to those “outside” of time. This is pretty much necessary for the first movie to have any tension. When Marty pushed his dad out of the path of his grandfather’s car, it took roughly a week before the changes he caused to change him, and gave him time to dread his inevitable non-existence and try to fix it. That should mean while Marty was surprised that his family changes after returning to the present, after a couple of days the changes should catch up and his memory should change to match his new past. I think this is part of what convinced Doc to tape up Marty’s letter. Marty said his dad never had stood up to Biff before and Doc said “never?” and looked lost in thought for a moment before realizing he had no time to dwell on it due to running out of time before the lightning strike. Doc realized Marty’s fix secured his birth but things would not be the same for Marty. Time was already permanently altered. So, I believe that led to Doc’s “I figured, what the hell” remark regarding taping up the letter. Temporal flux also means when Biff changed the past, there was time to try fix things before the changes effected them, although they did not focus on that aspect in the 2nd movie, that was more of a focus of the 1st. However, by going back to 1985 after Biff’s change, the flux had already changed 1985. Had they tried to go back to the old 2015, they’d be chasing after the flux and thus never would make it back before it changed too, so it made sense to go back to 1955 before the changes effect them and fix things, just like they did in the first. So, don’t think to hard about the time travel? I say go ahead, but it does work, and the attention to details are there. Doc broke the ledge on the clock tower so while it wasn’t broke when Marty left, it was broke when he returned. When Marty ran over one of Peabody’s two pines, the Twin Pine Mall that Marty left was the Lone Pine Mall when he returned. Now some things like Goldie Wilson running for mayor and Chuck Berry writing/performing Johnnie B. Goode had happened before Marty went back, but maybe Marty changed their origins through his actions. Anyway, Bob Gale co-wrote the movies and he did a fabulous job if you ask me. He never planned for the sequels, but when he wrote them (which were written at the same time), he followed patterns that were just brilliant. I cannot imagine them being different, really. Okay, enough raving. :)

Part 1 was made in 1985. Except for a 3 week break between parts 2 & 3, the sequels we're made from February 1989 - January 1990. Parts 2 & 3 were back to back.

"Women cops?.....can you imagine?" Your best line ever!

One sad moment of this movie is that the newspaper Doc shows to Marty announces among other things "Washington prepares fo Queen Diana's visit".

In 1955 George and Lorraine are 17 years old. Biff is 18 years old. In 1985 Marty and Jennifer are 17 years old. George and Lorraine are 47 years old. Biff is 48 years old. In 2015 Marty and Jennifer are 47 years old. George and Lorraine are 77 years old. Biff is 78 years old.

The tunnel scene is the same tunnel used in *(Who Framed Roger Rabbit)* which if you haven't seen would be a great movie to react to it's a mix of animation & reality

Trailers were the thing back in the day because you had to wait a year to see the film and there was no internet to create spoilers for it. You wanted to see a trailer in those days because you would forget about it pretty much until you saw it. Plus, they would show those in other movies at the beginning of whatever film you saw.

Michael J Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's by this time. He had been experiencing some strange physical problems, because he's a physical actor. The next one.. is the very BEST wrap up to a series we could hope to see. So, I suggest you watch the 3rd instalment of the series. It was the ending of an incredibly entertaining series and a wonderful career.. yet it also marks the beginning of another lifelong path for Michael J fox. xo

Everyone misses that doc told Marty about Griff's implants going bad and making them crazy.

Y'all probably didn't notice, but the actress who plays Marty's girlfriend in this movie is not the same actress from the first movie. They did a cast change. The second "Jennifer" is actress Elizabeth Shue, who was at that time a bigger named actress than the other one. She also starred as 'Daniel LaRusso's' love interest in the Karate Kid, and starred in another popular 80s teen flick titled, "Adventures in Babysitting".

When this film came out, there was no MLB team called Miami. The Florida Marlins changed their name to the Miami Marlins years later.

The makers have stated they were just having fun with the future ideas, and weren’t trying to give a possible real adaption of what it might be.

1. It's not often sequels hold up to the original, but this does. Thank you 1980s. 2.This one is the best of the bunch. The next one is inventive but I'm not really into the story. That said, it is the perfect wrap. 3. The stunt woman that flew into the glass window partially missed and injured her arm. 4. Michael J. Fox also played Marty's daughter. 5. Sammy Hagar, "I can't drive 55"😎 6. Good thing Biff shoots like a Star Wars Stormtrooper🤣 7. The tunnel at the end is the same one they used for Tune Town in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".

Pockets out is a prison thing so that you're "partner" could hold on to it so everyone knew who belonged to who. Sagging was a way to advertise the goods to interested parties.

I remember seeing this (in the late 80s) and thinking "The Scenery Channel" was ridiculous, but by the time 2015 rolled around, my cable company was offering "The Scenery Channel" featuring sunsets, a fireplace, a fish tank and a number of others. LOL

Actually, the line old Biff said to young Biff was, “How would you like to be rich? I see your car just had some work done to it. I’d like to talk to you about your cars extended warranty.”

Tom Wilson is so underappreciated in this trilogy - he's even better in part 3. You're gonna love part 3 by the way. It calms down a bit and sews all this up nicely. EDIT: About "plot holes". There is no such thing. What people define as "plot holes" these days falls into three camps. (This is in no way directed at you both, just wanted to rant a bit) 1. You were not paying attention enough to recognise a plot point. 2. You want something to be different than what was presented to you. Marvellous secret here, you are not the writer/producer/director of anything. If you don't like something - forget it and move on instead of constantly moaning about it everywhere (Star Wars) 3. Use your own imagination. I admire media that doesn't have explanations for everything. Movies CAN be ambiguous, it makes your brain work a bit. We don't need YT videos "explaining" the ending of things, especially since usually they are wrong. Anyway, like your stuff, you have a really nice chemistry together.

Fun fact if the alternative timeline had been allowed to continue then Biff would have been murdered be Lorraine in 1996 because she learned that he had murdered George. Hence why when old Biff returned from 1955 in a deleted scene he disappeared as he was dead by that point in the new timeline.

Michael J. Fix playing Marty, his son AND his daughter. 😂 Yes they filmed the movies at the same time then released them about 6 months apart.

I saw this in the theater when it first came out. No one knew what it was going to be like in the future, however I think they did a good job.

"The time-traveling is just too dangerous. Better that I devote myself to study the other great mystery of the universe: Women!" Unfortunately these days, some idiots can't even define WOMEN without using the fallacy of circular-logic. Fun Fact: First film appearance by Elijah Wood. He plays one of the two video game boys to whom Marty speaks in the Cafe 80's near the start of the film. Science Guy Fact: Astrophysicist Carl Sagan considered this the greatest time travel movie ever made. He praised the accuracy in handling the multiple time lines as what would really happen if time travel were possible (Narrator: It's NOT). In Back To The Future: The Game (1990), Carl Sagan is the alias used by Doc Brown when visiting Hill Valley in 1931. Technology Advancement Fact: The biggest effect the picture employs is a camera system called the VistaGlide. There are four scenes that use the effect of the same actor interacting with themselves. The four scenes that were shot were Griff and 2015 Biff in the Cafe 80's, the dinner sequence in 2015, 1955 Biff talking to 2015 Biff in the garage, and 1955 Doc talking with 1985 Doc. In order to create the dinner sequence with VistaGlide, the camera had to be divided into thirds and Michael had to come in three different times to play his older self, Marty Jr., and his daughter Marlene. This is the first film to accomplish interaction between the same actor on the screen twice as two different characters. If you watch closely, you'll see that 2015 Biff's hand disappears during the scene in the garage.

for the future, they had a team of furutists try to determine what 25 years in the future may be like. btw. when old biff came back and was having what appeared to be a heart attack, there was a deleted scene where he dissappeared but they producesers felt people would not understand it. which makes no sense given in part 1 marty almost ddi. but they said they felt lorrraine may have gotten fed up with bigg in the mid 90s and shot him.

since Marty and Doc did not pre-plan that Delorean roof-top save... I think it is implied that Marty was shot and fell off the roof at least one time (if not more)... meaning that the version of Doc that saves him is aware that Marty has died at least once in this time-loop [and gone back 1 hour in time to save him].

Thomas Wilson, the guy who plays Biff, is an extremely funny man! He does stand-up. He's also a musician, and incorporates it into his act. He has a song called "The Question Song" that's about questions he gets asked about Back to the Future. VERY funny song!! It's on RU-vid, as well as the full stand-up performance, "Bigger Than You". He's really funny! Check it out if you're still reading these comments. Lol

I hope you guys noticed young Frodo (aka Elijah Wood) near beginning of the movie. He was one of the two kids standing right besides the arcade machine that Marty was playing.

Needles was played by Flea (bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers).

This movie is definitely the inspiration for Rick and Morty with all these Docs and Marty's running into each other.

Don’t know if you noticed or not, but the person who plays Jennifer is different in this movie. Elizabeth Shue plays in this one, because the original one went off the focus on your education so she did not playing this one. And yes, part 3 was filmed almost right after.

I've always wondered. Marty does know that the Cubs win the World Series in 2015. He has to place that bet, right?

3rd one’s really good.

I love that naive innocence of 80s’ ideas of the future.

9:06 No, he's got a few short circuits in his cybernetic implants, like Doc said earlier.

BTTF II is connected to Who Framed Roger Rabbit. You need to react to Roger Rabbit if you haven’t seen it. Have you guys seen these movies?: GalaxyQuest, The Sixth Sense, Jurassic Park, Clue(Tim Curry), Ghostbusters, Superman I and Ii

When I saw this on opening night in theaters, the crowd went wild when the trailer started.

The hoverboards are actually real guys, just deemed too dangerous for consumers, lol

10:00 "What is wrong with this guy". Doc told Marty earlier when they first arrived that Griff has problems with the bionic implants in his head. That's why his voice and his actions are so strange. 10:16 "Who's making the chicken sound". The guy to the left of Griff. His vest has buttons he can press for sounds. As for the issue of Marty talking on the walkie-talkie in the back of Biff's car and Biff not hearing him is VERY REALISTIC! Biff was listening to the radio, therefore the radio blocked out sounds from the back seat. Marty was facing AWAY from Biff so any sound that Marty made would BARELY be heard in the front seat of the car. So it is very possible that Biff didn't hear Marty at all. As for younger Doc not recognizing older Doc's voice, that's VERY plausible too! The voice you hear when you speak is not exactly like the voice that others hear when you speak. If you listen to your recorded voice, it does not sound like the voice you hear when you speak. I guess you guys didn't think of those things when you were criticizing the movie.

1955-70 = 1685. Our future is in good hands. :P These movies were a big part of my childhood and I'm glad you guys are enjoying them. Hope to see you react to some more movies from the 80's. It was some really good times.

Video conferencing tech has been around (nearly) 100 years. First true modern video call occurred in 1970

Great Scott! I love these movies! Just a really fun watch everytime, great reaction lads!

I didn't know you already uploaded, but I just wanted to let you two know, good luck, we're all counting on you.

Uncle Joey can't catch a break in any timeline 😆

I watch reactions to this movie pretty regularly, and I always walk around for days afterwards whistling the theme song lol

don't know if you guys had noticed , you may have. but earlier the delorians time circuits were malfunctioning slightly swithing from 1985 to 1885 and back. evne said 1-1-1885

You're exactly right any time travel movie you have to just go with it & have fun it's not a documentary on time travel

Thanks, Cam! Thanks, Zay! ⏳ This one is my favorite from the trilogy. The letter from1885 always chokes me up. #CamAndZay #RobertZemeckis #BackToTheFuturePartII

I don't think this scene is in your reaction.... but from a filming practicality POV... when Doc peels off his 'face' because he has de-aged himself via medical intervention. He essentially de-aged the actor 30 years since he was playing an older character. In part one (if you watch in HD --- I never noticed as a child watching on TV/VHS or even DVD --- both Doc and Strickland's fake wrinkles makeup are very evident.... much less so with Marty's parents grey hair and 'fat' make-up). So moving forward - Christopher Lloyd does not have to wear that make-up for the majority of part 2 or 3.

- Yes, they shot Part 2 and Part 3 back to back. Though after the first movie, I don't think they weren't necessarily planning on a sequel or a trilogy... they just though "to be continued" would be a fun joke. Back when these sequels came out in `89 & `90, there were several months in between them, which gave a lot of folx too much time to try to figure out how Marty gets to 1885. - Seven years ago, on the date of that future USA Today newspaper, the real USA Today actually printed the cover of that fake movie newspaper as the actual cover of that day's issue. - Elijah Wood, aka, Frodo Baggins, plays the little kid that makes fun of Marty for using his hands to play the Duck Hunt game at Cafe 80s. - The look of the Cafe 80s A.I. "waiters" were inspired by "Max Headroom", a show from the 80s about a future A.I. talk show host. - We all laughed at the JAWS 19 joke back then, but I don't think we're that far off from FAST & THE FURIOUS getting to Number 19 :O - Miami does have a baseball team NOW, but they're the Marlins, not the Gators or whatever mascot that was. And strangely enough, that scene took place in 2015, and the real world Cubs actually broke their 109 year World Series losing streak one year later in 2016 :D - There's a deleted scene where, after old Biff returns from 1955, he starts to fade from existence. That's why he looked all sweaty & hurt when he returned.

Did you notice a young FRODO in the Cafe 80s, he's the shortest kid at the video game

I don’t disagree with your critiques at all, but it does help to know why some of the future elements were so goofy. The filmmakers knew movies never predicted the future correctly, so decided to just have fun with it. Also, they wanted the youth culture in 2015 to seem as ridiculous to audiences as current 1980’s youth culture seemed to them. 😁

First movie was purposely left on a cliffhanger but sequels were not planned that's why they oddly leave Jennifer passed out in places cuz they had to do something with her because she's in the car it in the movie one. Part 2 & 3 we're written to be one sequel

Cubs winning the world series was so close, they won for the first time in 2016 ='D Not too bad for a 30 year old prediction

The twists and turns and level of mindfuck*ry of this chapter is why I worship good script writers. Something missing from current era Hollywood.

Please don't forget to watch part 3!

Many sequels are a money grab but *Back to the Future* trilogy is great. So is the first sequel to *Terminator* maybe the best ever...

From a technological point of view, it was a bit of a stretch for them to imagine 2015 the way they did in the mid-80s. Hey it worked in favor for the film. But historically from 1965 to 1985, the tech did increased exponentially. Even watching the tech grow from 1985 to 1995 you would've felt more awesome-ness was coming. Personally, I think certain corporations or groups stopped certain things from happening or technology from being pushed further. Same tactic where ideas and certain speech is being covered up or silenced. Anyways, it was pretty hilarious how certain things they predicted in 1988/89 for 2015 is what we actually have today.

Lol, Robert Zemeckis has said their vision of 2015 wasn't really meant to be "accurate prediction" they just tried to make it as fun/funny as possible.

This 2015 future is basically exaggerated 80's with a Sci-Fi effect, try to imagine 30 years from now the 2050s

Writing a 2nd film in a trilogy is such an art, unlike a 1st film which can work as standalone, you're also trying to set up a conclusion. In a sense a part 2 and 3 have to work like two halves of a 2-parter, and so any addition, fix, setup for the overall trilogy must happen in 2, AND it has to work as is own film too. Something that's always impressed me is how Marty's catchphrase "Nobody calls me chicken" (just as iconic as Doc's "Great Scott!") is nowhere IN the first film, but in this one they use it like 3 times? So they are setting up this flaw for him REALLY aggressively! and because of that most people remember like it's been there from the beginning. But no, we're doing things here, we're setting up an arc.

Dudes, get to the third movie!

There "was" FaceTime in the 80s it just wasn't called that. It was just live TV. If you could afford it, you could do video calls. It's the system the news used to do live broadcasts. But its most amazing how well this film realized the future of evil with Biff being based on Trum**. They nailed that attitude well!

Someone keeps telling the Reactors to avoid the preview of Back to the Future III. Don't listen to them, this was shown in the movie theaters and did not spoil the movie. I'm glad you guys watched the movie preview because that is the way it was supposed to be❗ Thanks❗

@12:14 you can see the female member of Biff's gang slams into one of the concrete pillars at the Court House Mall. While shooting, one of the pulleys malfunctioned during the stunt and the stuntwoman playing her was very badly injured. But they still used the shot.

3:30 Did you notice the look Doc gave when asked if they become assholes or something? "Yes, you do become an asshole. But I can't tell you." 16:20 I couldn't tell if you recognized who played Marlene, the daughter. 39:50 The movie-makers flipped up the distance-speed-time issue in the tunnel. 41:00 The newspapers and the matches don't change until Marty burns the book. As long as the almanac exists, someone's going to make the bad future. Marty Mcfly's upbringing in the newer timeline led to certain changes in his personality. Instead of, "Suppose they didn't like it... I don't think I could handle that kind of rejection," it's "I know I make it big," "I am rich," and "Nobody calls me chicken!"

when they stash jennifer i n the alley you can see pallets of used CDs and Laser Discs behind them. it was outside of a recycling facility

This made my day.

It was cool in the theaters ...sound made a big difference too the movie

4:38 -- "They really thought 2015 was going to be like this" No. It was a joke. Nearly every part of the "future" world is a JOKE. Come on.

i agree. why not say goodbye to that alternate reality and, go back the day before and not throw away the almanac.

You gotta see comedian John Mulaney's standup bit about BACK TO THE FUTURE. Fall down funny!

Fun fact in 2015 the Cubs actually won the world series. Other events happened but I don't remember. There's a couple videos about it here on RU-vid.

Yeah part 2 really just made the whole "how time travel works" even harder to understand here. If old Biff changed the past he should have traveled back to the future where he was rich (and dead) like Marty did after he changed the past as made his family better. If anything old Biff taking the almanac should have created a paradox. If Doc was committed he never builds the time machine and thus the whole adventure should have never taken place, and if its the multiverse theory they use now then old Biff should have traveled into an alternate future after he gave the book to himself like Marty did and thus Marty and Doc would be stuck in the future where Marty got into the accident and his life was messed up

fun fact is that the speedometer in the delorean only went to 85. It was only a 4 cylinder engine and the car itself was very heavy. He would have struggled to get to 90 in a parking lot

one of the few PERFECT sequels.

They actually couldn't go back to their original timeline because it changed to the alternate one when they were still in the future. The proof was Biff getting out of the Delorean looking like he was dying...they didn't explain it but it was inferred that he was fading away like Marty was starting to in the first movie. So the only way they could fix it was to go back to 1955. The trailer for part 3 today seems like a major spoiler and it does kinda ruin a little of the surprise when if want to go in blind... but when this was in the theater and that trailer came on the screen, people went crazy cheering lol Different times. Their idea of 2015 was amazing ....flying cars but you boss fires you by sending you a fax LOL

Totally fair ratings. It’s really not _that_ big of a deal to see the trailer, but the warning is good because some people like to avoid anything like that. If it didn’t bother you any, no problem. It is what we saw in the threater. People often mention the _Rick & Morty_ connection with Doc and Marty, though I’d say Morty is much more like Marty Jr. That being the case is kind of funny to me, as Dan Harmon doesn’t seem to have a particularly high opinion of BTTF Part 2.

I can't believe no one has mentioned that the part of "Needles" is played by Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

An obvious influence for the alternate-1985 Biff Tannen character was a certain actual straw-haired, pumpkin-colored real estate tycoon.

Wait. You're FL boys too? Awesome. What part. Polk County here. Hope the hurricane didn't do you too much damage.

how did biff know how to use the time machine to not only go back in time, but to return the car to the future? why return it at all? how did biff get hurt? how did his cane brake?

it bothers me that this makes it not 88 comments anymore but, I have to say they almost called the Cubs winning the World Series after having not won it for over 100 years..missed it by 1 season..

at the end when u said the doc has seen like 6 of them...that doc at the end only saw the one...then the second one

They didnt shoot it back to back, they shot it back to the future! :)

But the fact that we actually lived through the year 2015 is 😳. And some of the things they predicted came out to be true

you are correct. they shot 2 and 3 at the same time. and no there is no spoilers, no diffrent than if you watch a trailer for any other movie

It isn't Einstein in 1955, it's Copernicus.

Mami does have two teams the Miami Marlins they were called the Florida Marlins before that,as well the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

it is next to impossible to make a technically correct time travel movie that uses grandfather paradox type time travel. everyone and everything should change instantly, memory and objects. you cant really make it w/out wrecking reality. so invisible clauses have to be made or these movies would never work.

My favorite trilogy !

Great movie choice. Great reaction.

hmm... I never considered the overlap of 'Biff's' Delorean and the 2015 Doc + Marty Delorean .. plus the 1955 Delorean... so theres now... well without spoilers.... 1 more (for a short time period - hours) than I had previously thought.

They were already making the 3rd film while making the middle to end of the 2nd one.

when the fad of your pockets turned out was in full swing was your buddy walking along side holding one of your outturned pockets? (not you two, but just two guys in general.)

If you guys like the whole time shifting, paradox kind of story. Check out Frequency. A dramatic murder mystery across time.

Florida Marlins didn't exist even this movie was made. They were close by guessing Miami. Cubs ended up winning in 2016

YOU NEED POWAHH!!!!

It’s against the law!!!!!!! #3!!!!!!!😂😂😂

I believe Marty said "I know CTE"..