First Time Watching - Back to the Future II - Reaction 

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It’s funny how, in every reaction I have seen, at this point 11:43 everybody talks about the doble tie, but nobody seems to be surprised at the fact that Marty is having a Videoconference. That’s absolutely normal now, but not in the 80’s.

James, I've seen numerous people react to this movie, and you were the ONLY one who immediately recognized Michael J Fox as the daughter. Impressive. Also, Jennifer was replaced with Elisabeth Shue for this movie and Part 3. The original actress, Claudia Wells, was unavailable because she had to take care of her sick mom when these movies were filming. (Part 2 and Part 3 were filmed simultaneously).

They were only off by a year in predicting the Cubs World Series championship. That's pretty impressive.

The reason Biff is in so much pain getting back out of the DeLorean in 2015 is because he's vanishing from existence, which was originally going to be shown in a deleted scene. When he changed the timeline by giving his younger self the almanac, he changed his own death. In the DVD commentary they say in the "B" timeline, Lorraine shot and killed him in the mid-90s, so his 2015 self would cease to exist until the timeline was corrected.

"EAT LEAD, SLACKERS!!!" so funny!!!!! the hysteria!

Best trilogy ever!!! Biff is my favorite character, he does all his roles to perfection. My favorite is his character in Part 3!

I'd recommend Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Time travel, including Medieval times! And of course it's excellent.

8:12 I love how they were only 1 year off. The Cubs won in 2016.

Marty still knows that the Cubs won the World Series in 2015. He can make that bet

One thing most people don't seem to recognize is that the guy who sold Biff the oil in 1955 is the same person talking to Marty in 2015 about the Cubs. In real life that same actor is also the voice of Roger Rabbit.

Maaaaaan, your laughing is soooo contagious, haha 😂😂 Love seeing you experience these BTTF movies for the first time. You have a talent for noticing things most people don't. That's awesome!

The exterior of Biff’s Pleasure Palace is actually The Plaza Hotel here in Downtown Las Vegas!

1.It's not often sequels hold up to the original. 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. 3. Eric Stoltz was first offered the job of Marty. Thankfully we got the perfect guy for the part. 4. The tunnel at the end is the same one they used for "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".

This was my favorite of the three. I had this on VHS and watched it countless of times!

“Realistically”, if they didn’t bring Jennifer to the future with them, this all wouldn’t have happened LOL Really enjoying your reactions! Thank you! 🤗

3:04 Yes. Unfortunately the previous film was written as a stand-alone; the ending where they all take off in the flying DeLorean was just a bit of fun. When the studio demanded a sequel, the writers found they’d written themselves into a corner; they had to start with her (which is why she was so quickly and unceremoniously dumped in the alleyway). Had they planned a sequel they would have done things differently.

The best movie from my favourite trilogy. Love that they incorporate the story from the first movie. The more complicated the timeline gets, the better the movie gets.

I understand stopping before the trailer at the end, but keep in mind that’s how we saw it at the time. I just love your reaction, it feels like we’re with you watching the movie.

The old guy saying he would like to go back in time and bet on the Cubs, who gave Marty the idea, was Charles Fleischer, the voice of Roger Rabbit

The coolest thing about growing up with this movie was looking forward to the year 2015 and seeing how the fiction compares with the reality. No prizes for guessing what I was doing that Wednesday afternoon :)

“He’s got 2 ties”.... wow I’ve been watching this movie for 30 years and I just noticed that now after you mentioned it!! Crazy

Elizabeth Shue who plays the girlfriend (given almost nothing to do in this movie), went on to become an Oscar nominee for her role in Leaving Las Vegas (1995)), but the movie I recommend you watch that she starred in is Adventures In Babysitting (1987), it's a fun one.

Tiny cameo no one notices, that's a young Elijah Wood as one of the kids in the 80s cafe 🙂 Also, Charles Fleischer is the old guy wanting to bet on the Cubs, he was the voice of Roger Rabbit!

As a fellow parent, I think it's awesome you're doing this. Movies and shows were all I did growing up, so seeing your wholesome reactions to the movies and shows I enjoy, past and present, is great.

One of my favorite films of all time. My kids can quote it. My youngest and I watch it regularly. I still can’t believe anyone my age has never seen this when my 16 year old gets every quote and knows every line. Idk.

The plasma TV hanging on the wall doesn't look that unusual, but they didn't exist when the movie was made. LED lights on police cars as well.

Another thing about the world series scene - Miami didn't have a team until a few years after this movie came out

5:17 Those characters in the tvs are a reference to Max Headroom, an 80s futuristic tv show

In the score soundtrack album for this movie, the track that plays during the 1955/1985 Doc interaction at the clock tower is titled "Pair o' Docs" which is _brilliantly_ clever if you ask me.

My favorite s in order are 1, 3, and 2... I like them all, but number two was pretty dark and depressing in comparison to the lightheartedness of the other two.

Did anyone already tell you that Michael J. Fox wasn't the original actor cast as Marty? It was Eric Stoltz and they started filming with him. It wasn't working though, and they wanted Fox, but he was already so busy filming the tv show Family Ties that he didn't immediately want to do it. I think there is still some footage in the first movie that is actually Eric. I'd have to look it up again for more details. After you watch the third one, there is a documentary about the making of BTTF called Back in Time.

Claudia Wells was involved in a really bad motor vehicle accident. Since then She has long suffered with back problems. Furthermore her mother was dying from cancer when it came time to film BTTF2. This is too bad because I would have liked to have seen Claudia reprise her role and have an acting career.

Look up Tom Wilson "the question song". He's a comedian and at his shows he performs this song to save time at the post show meet and greets

The third is my favorite. 2 is fun, as the 3rd act is a retread of the 1st but from slightly different viewpoints, though it comes across as a bit hokey now that we live in a post 2015 world... I do wish that Crispin Glover had returned so that there could have been more of George, but alas, it is what it is.

Flying Cars = Not Weird Hoverboards = Weird Your logic fails me. Fun Fact: Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale have admitted on the DVD commentary that they were originally not interested in doing a sequel to their success hit Back To the Future (1985), and that the open ending of the first movie was simply meant as a final joke. However, when plans for a sequel were made by the studio, they chose to remain involved in the continuation of their creation, and even extended it to two sequels. Zemeckis has claimed that if he knew that he was going to make a sequel, he would have made sure that Marty's girlfriend Jennifer wasn't in the car at the end of the first film. Since the movie would concentrate on Marty, there was not much for her to do, and she would even get in his way. This is why Jennifer is knocked out by Doc and left behind so early in the movie.

They hadn't planned to make a sequel, so the start is a bit rough, but they did a great job with it.

The original actress who played Jennifer in the first film had an issue with her mother getting cancer, so they had to recast her role and the girl they got played her pretty well considering the circumstances

Trilogy is a total masterpiece from start to finish. Such a good film and great reaction man, loving the content

Michel J. Fox was on the TV sitcoms "Family Ties" in the 80s and "Spin City" in the 90s.

Thank you to the fans who told you to stop before it showed the previews of Back to the Future 3!

Back To The Future Day happened October 21, 2015! And they predicted the Cube would win the World Series, just a year later.

Can't wait for part 3, yee hah!!!

There are some videos of Tom Wilson, (Biff) at home, riding his bike, on stage doing his comedy act...he really is a very decent guy. I saw an interview of him and the actress talking about the potential rape scene in the car...he felt so bad he apologized to her multiple times. He does a song in his comedy act about people always asking him what it was like to work with Michael J. Fox and the other cast members... it's pretty funny!

I second watching Bill and Ted. Time travel movies are always a blast.

14:04 I didn't want to put a spoiler on #1's comment threads. But on your reaction to Part One, you asked snout the lottery tickets, going into the future and getting the winning numbers. Essentially Biff did the same thing here, but he handed the info to his younger self.

You're right, the daughter was Michael J. Fox, the girlfriend is a different actress, and get this, the dad actor is not in this movie (except in the repeating scenes), he wanted more money, but the producers declined his wishes.

I remember when the actual future day came around, they re released this movie into theaters and had a whole bunch of tie ins like a fake USA Today page. History channel even did a special about all the things this film predicted.

Can you just imagine what kind of weight would have to be in that jacket for it to have that amount of drying power? 😆

As a child, I thought Back to the Future 2 was better than the first. As an adult... absolutely not. The first one is so good. It just works

It's soannoying when people say don't watch the preview at the end. If you had seen it in the theater that IS the way you would have seen it originally with the preview, so it's part of the movie it's not really giving anything away that you don't already know. It's a fun glimpse at what's to come.

You can't tell me that u don't see 80s Trump in the Biff character. So much like him with the hair and the tower, casino .

I watched your Fifth Element reaction video today as well. It's amazing how back in the day, everyone thought we'd have flying *everything* today. 😊 Hoverboards are a thing, but not quite the same as in this movie. I wonder if we'll ever really have flying cars for everyday use!

Love this trilogy so much and can't wait for you to see the third one. Awesome video.

As a kid, I loved this film better than Back to the Future because I enjoyed the future stuff. Today, I do not like it as much, but I still think it is a fun movie to watch, especially because we get to see how people imagined what the future would look like. I think the craziest thing about this film is that the future it takes place in, has already passed, and while some of the inventions on display happened, many of the others are not even possible to make yet.

Hey just a friendly reminder. You’re already on to Back to the Future 2. You still need to come back and watch one of the best movie sequels of all time! “Terminator 2”!!! It was months back you watched the first Terminator film. Trust me, Terminator 2 is essential!

Great movie. One thing that does always bug me though is when old Biff steals the time machine and gives the almanac to his young self why does he not get stuck in the alternate timeline when he returns to 2015? Guess we are not supposed to notice that 😄

Tom Wilson who plays Biff actually does stand up... and yeah he has said this character is no NOT him. He actually had to act in these

The kid on the left 5:49 is Elijah Wood, who would play Frodo in The Lord of the Rings.

Crispin Glover ( George McFly) , didn't want to be in the sequels unless they paid him the same amount they paid Michael J. Fox. Since they didn't agree with him they had to kill him off in alternate 1985. That's why we don't see George's face well in 2015, and used footage from the 1st movie. The tunnel they drive through is the same tunnel in " Who Framed Roger Rabbit ".

I liked your reaction. Yes, FAX! In Canada medical personnel send faxes because they are still the most sure way to protect privacy! I'm in my sixties and I a time when faxes didn't exist. I remember when faxes came out and my company and the company that sold us the fax were the only two companies in town to have a fax. I remember it took a while before faxes became popular. Personally I hated faxes. The first papers were like receipts of today and faded after a while. I much preferred when emails became popular in business.

The Jennifer from the first movie had family issues. So they got Elizabeth Shue for this and the third.

Nike actually made a real pair of those self lacing sneakers and gave them to Michael j Fox a few years ago. It was very cool to see his face light up in the video.

Fun sequel as well as trilogy. I watch these films over, & over again. It never gets old.

5:49 Aww, the young Elijah Wood^^

Ah I can't wait for part III!

I didn’t read all the comments so don’t know if it’s mentioned but Needles is Flea from the red hot chilli peppers. And one of the kids in the diner is Elijah Wood

I thought I already subscribed, definitely am now🤙 great reaction! Glad you enjoyed it, very excited for the last one! Hope you’re having a great day🙏🏼

25:10 It looks like no one in the chat could answer your "how did he time travel without 88mph" question (I'm too lazy to see if anyone else did here in the comments,) so here it is: it's not that Doc upgraded the DeLorean to not require the speed when he had the hover conversion and Mr. Fusion added in 2015, remember it still needs to get up to speed in the opening ("Doc, you better back up, we don't have enough road to get up to 88." "Where we're going we don't need roads.") It's that he _didn't_ time travel without 88mph, the lightning bolt sent the DeLorean into an 88mph _spin._ The weird backwards '9s' left in the sky aren't actually backwards 9s, they're the fire-trails the DeLorean leaves every time it temporally displaces, but in a spiral because the DeLorean was rolling instead of moving forward. That plus the fact that there isn't any debris raining down is a nice bit of short foreshadowing that the lightning bolt must've charged the flux capacitor As is the case with everything in this series, there's a lot of small detail behind it, too. In the first movie, the DeLorean actually needs to hold 88mph for a few seconds to time travel. In this movie, it doesn't; when we see the view from inside where the speedometer is visible when they go to 1985-A, it time-travels instantly when it hits 88, so Doc probably did do an upgrade of some kind for better efficiency, just not one that removes the speed requirement. On it's own it seems like such a small thing that you'd think they couldn't possibly have done it on purpose and it's just how they decided to film the scene. Except, when you get to Part 3, where the DeLorean is 70-80 years old, half a step away from being a junker and the time circuits had to be rebuilt with analog components from 1955, the details of what it looks like when the DeLorean travels through time have all been altered to make the process look _less efficient._

Nostalgia hits hard with these 80s classics

Parts 2 and 3 were written back to back, enabling them to set up moments that are paid off in the next movie. They were also filmed that way.

The travel poster said SURF VIETNAM, because they thought that was ridiculous enough to be hilarious. By 2015 in real life, Vietnam had become a tourist destination.

The previews are not really spoilers. They only let you see part of last movie here. The spoiler for you, I see is knowing where this movie is going after the letter from 1985 Doc from 1885. And no people, it wasn't a spoiler. Last 5 minutes of the movie after Doc got struck by lightening. The real spoiler is actually what the previews don't even really show

One of my fav childhood movie

This was such a good movie, I love Doc Brown

James, I work for a state agency and we still use fax a lot. Also, the way we are setup, customers still need to use mail of fax to send us documents.

10:32 Some trivia: The production team couldnt find a solution on the payment for Georges Character so that in the end they chose someone else to play George. But to make it not too obvious like with Jennifers character, they just came up with the story og him having to hang upside down, so that it aint that obivious that its not the original actor anymore.

Good movies enjoyed watching again with you!☀️✌🏻

While I don't think the script is pacing is as tight as the first one, I still like this movie a lot. It can be a bit convoluted at first, but I love time travel and split timelines. Even if their own time travel rules aren't always consistent.

5:49 the first screen appearance of Elijah Wood.

I can’t believe that a non Amish person of your age and living in these United States has not seen movies? Like+ subscriber

I heard rumors they based the alternate 1985 Biff off of Trump.

Looper is a crazy time travel film w/ a surprise twist on the ending and ultimate story hook. Also, not really a Time travel film, but IDIOCRACY, guy from the present ends up in the future Ala Cryo-freeze. Hilarious parody of supposed future, that sadly shares more in truth with what occurs today.

lol I'm such a geek to do this, my theory though it's not widely accepted is given further proof in this film (though some of it is just recasting issues) one of the big issues about these 2 films coming is the Chicken argument, as the first film shows Marty to be very rational and this character break doesn't fit, would though if this was a different Marty that was essentially the Marty we saw going to the past at the end of 1. that and this version of Doc Brown is against Gambling, but the first version we see in 1 mentions gambling as being a reason to make the time machine, he actually mentions the world series winners.

biggest plothole among many is why didn't marty and doc change when biff gave himself the almanac/why was biff able to return to the same timeline in the future and not to the changed one like marty does in the first film.

Fun, fun reaction. Thanks!

They _create_ a new Jennifer who will emerge in the final timeline, because _this_ Jennifer now has to live out her life in "Biff's World". In much the same way that they _destroyed_ the Marty of the alternate future in the first movie. The fact that his father became successful means an entirely different upbringing; the Marty that emerges (the one "we" follow) "overwrites" the Marty of the successful father's upbringing. ...so the producers destroyed the lives of TWO characters that just isn't addressed. Doc's "explanation" that the world will "change around her", doesn't pan out, because at the end of the 3rd movie, there are changes to _this_ Marty's world, that could only happen if "Biff's World" is *still* an alternate reality out there, and they left Jennifer in it, so the one that emerges is actually _created,_ due to the alternate timeline.

Yes, Michael J Fox was Marty's daughter, "Marlene McFly" Fun fact: The voice of Biff's grandmother, "Gertrude Tannen", was also Thomas F. Wilson - so yea, talented man even being the female relatives. His voice acting skills are outstanding. Something to notice: The writers are clearly trying to say that there's a connection between those who pressure others to do stuff... and cowards. How? Very simply and subtly... Most people miss it; not saying you missed it, coz I don't know. But "Douglas". Douglas is both Needles's first name and George's middle name. So the writers quite literally use a name to bind those two individuals together, individuals who represent personality traits like all the characters in this franchise do. Something to think about also, someone else mentioned to you in the comments about the guy - Charles Fleischer's character "Terry" the mechanic of 1955 being who Marty's talking to in 2015 - but there's something else to think about here.: Whose fault is the screwed up 1985 really?... It's Terry's!... So in a strange turn of events, it's the very person that Biff has an argument with over only $80 who causes him to be the richest man in the world - rich enough to just see 80 bucks as petty change... and of course also evil; but it's mainly the money element that even people who 'get' it (that it's the same guy) don't 'really' get. But I just love things like that. You can tell the writers literally thought of everything. And now that you've seen the third one, something else will stand out. "$80". The very amount that;s involved in another financial disagreement involving Buford, Biff's ancestor. As if what Buford Tannen did in 1885 brought a karma-type curse on his family bloodline and that the universe was going to get revenge on one of his descendants through somebody else later on. (Again, the writers clearly knew what they were doing). - The other side note based on the same comment from the other person mentioning that Fleischer voices Roger in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (which is true - and it's a great movie by tyhe way if you haven't seen it, it also has Christopher Lloyd, as well as being a Steven Spielberg movie). But Charles Fleischer also voiced 3 other characters in the Who Framed film as well.

What have been great if the cubs really did win 2015 instead of 1 year later in 2016 lol.

Hello James, Love your reactions! You mentioned you like the medieval time period which is my favorite also (along with dragons). A movie you might like that came out in 1981 called 'Excalibur' might be something that interest you. I think it comes the closest to the origins of King Arthur and the quest for the holy grail. It has tons of actors in it that became famous later on. Some of the actors in the movie were professional stage actors at the time so some of the acting can be a little over the top (did not bother me). It also was filmed in the early 80's when sword and sorcery were really starting to gain ground (as well as the Dungeons and Dragons game) and tons of movies covering the topic were starting to be made. Two other movies are 'Dragonslayer', one of Disney's first or second attempts to make more mature movies instead of cartoons and it also contains what many people consider the best practical effects dragon to ever be shown on film. Also 'Conan the Barbarian' with Arnold Schwarzenegger is great, and the soundtrack is unbelievable.

Not really spoilers. When watching part 3, keep in mind the arcade game Marty was playing, the movie Biff was watching in the hot tub, and that Doc was wearing a shirt with trains on it.

Where we're going, we don't need roads

The best movie of the trilogy in my opinion. This movie allude allot to the classic movie It's A Wonderful Life (Which you should see) from 1946 so that movie I think It's A Wonderful Life is one of the first time travel or alternative reality movie. What does this movie Back To The Future 2 does first I think is showing the first movie from different perspective which is so cool.

Not-so-fun fact: 'Hell Valley' Tannen is intentionally based on a very specific, real-life figure of the 80s that most who knew of him thought as a complete joke and as a potential monster should he ever attain any real power. Care to guess who?

Great video as always!!!

My favorite movie in the trilogy!! Is Who Framed Roger Rabbit on the list yet?

Subscribed. Oh and yes, Jennifer WAS a different actress.

I liked the first one a lot more but still pretty interesting. Nice reaction.

Why didn't they let Jennifer sleep in the car? They just left her alone on a heap of trash. 😂

No spoilers...but you're gonna love Back to the Future 3!