Back to the Future

Back to the Future

All teens think their parents were never teenagers. They may have once been children, but they are definitely adults now. However, how could they have ever been teenagers and not understand their own children? This view is quite optimistic actually because it presumes that you can learn something about teenagers by being one yourself. But “Back to the Future” is even more hopeful: It claims that time travel to when your parents were adolescents is possible and they’ll be able to help themselves at the moment of need.

The film starts off in present day with a teenage boy named Marty (Michael J. Fox from TV’s “Family Ties”). His folks are let’s face it hopeless nerds. Dad tells corny jokes while mom guzzles vodka in the kitchen like it’s water and dinnertime feels like feeding time at the zoo for funhouse animals.

The only thing keeping Marty sane is his friendship with wacky Dr.Brown (Christopher Lloyd), an inventor whose glowing eyes and fright wig hair make him look more mad scientist than genius innovator . Brown thinks he has discovered time travel so one night in an abandoned parking lot of a local mall , he proves it . In all cinema history there has never been such a contraption as Brown’s time machine which looks suspiciously similar to a customized De Lorean.

It works ! After some surprises along the way , Marty finds himself transported back thirty years ago when this shopping mall was farmer’s fields (there’s a great gag when the farmer thinks that the De Lorean with its gull wing doors is actually a flying saucer ). Marty strolls into town still dressed in 1985 clothes and locals see his down jacket asking why he wears life preservers .

One of the running gags throughout Back To The Future involves how much things change over thirty years within this small town (for example porn houses played Ronald Reagan movies during different eras). But many differences run deeper than just that as Marty sits down next to his dad who happens also be around fourteen himself at lunch counter. Since this film has so much fun creating difficult situations between kids meeting their parents I won’t say what happens next or even mention how horrifying it is when martie realizes mama “has hots” for him . Part of what makes watching movies enjoyable are unexpected twists

Robert (“Romancing the Stone”) Zemeckis directs “Back to the Future,” demonstrating not only a good sense of humor but also some lighthearted humanism akin to Frank Capra’s. In fact, the film resembles Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” more than any other conventional time travel films. It tells about someone who begins life and existence with one perspective, but through magical intervention gets an opportunity to experience another view.

The executive producer is Steven Spielberg, and this is his second work among three productions for summer (it follows ‘The Goonies’ and precedes ‘Explorers’) so it might be time for us to wonder whether he is imitating great studio chiefs of old who specialized in matching right directors with appropriate projects. Here again genius has matched brains, wit and laughter together beautifully.

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