Quotes
 Television announcer: Broadcasting beautiful views 24 hours a day: you`re tuned to the Scenery Channel. [Jennifers from two different times confront one another]
Young Jennifer: I`m old!
Old Jennifer: I`m young!
[Flying above Biff in 1955]
Marty McFly: There he is, Doc! Let`s land on him, we`ll cripple his car.
Doc: Marty, he`s in a `46 Ford, we`re in a DeLorean. He`d rip through us like we were tin foil.
Marty McFly: [Reading the newspaper from 2015] "Within two hours of his arrest, Martin McFly Jr. was tried, convicted and sentenced to fifteen years in the state penetentary."? Within two hours?
Doc: The justice system works swiftly in the future now that they`ve abolished all lawyers.
Doc: The time-traveling is just too dangerous. Better that I devote myself to study the other great mystery of the universe: women!
Doc: Marty! What in the name of Sir Isaac H. Newton happened here?
[last lines]
Young Doc: No! It can`t be; I just sent you back to the future!
Marty McFly: No, I know; you *did* send me back to the future. But I`m back - I`m back *from* the future.
Young Doc: Great Scott!
[Doc faints]
Marty McFly: Doc! Doc! Doc! Ohhhh...
Biff Tannen: That`s about as funny as a screen door on a battleship.
Marty McFly: [under his breath] It`s "screen door on a submarine," you dork.
Lorraine Baines: Biff Tannen, I wouldn`t be your girl even if - even if you had a million dollars.
Young Biff: Why don`t you make like a tree and get out of here?
Old Biff: It`s *leave*, you idiot! "Make like a tree, and leave." You sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong.
Young Biff: All right then, LEAVE! And take your book with you!
Old Biff: [watching the chase unfold in 2015] There`s something very familiar about all this.
Marty McFly: That`s right, Doc. November 12, 1955.
Doc: Unbelievable, that old Biff could have chosen that particular date. It could mean that that point in time inherently contains some sort of cosmic significance. Almost as if it were the temporal junction point for the entire space-time continuum. On the other hand, it could just be an amazing coincidence.
Marty McFly: [picks up a newspaper] 1985... it can`t be...
[shotgun cocks behind him]
S. S. Strickland: Drop it!
[Marty drops the newspaper]
S. S. Strickland: So you`re the son of a bitch who`s been stealing my newspapers.
Marty McFly: Mr. Strickland! Mr. Strickland. It- it- it`s me, sir. It`s Marty!
S. S. Strickland: Who?
Marty McFly: [terrified] Marty McFly! Marty McFly! Don`t you know me, sir? From school, sir!
S. S. Strickland: I`ve never seen you before in my life, but you look to me like a slacker!
Marty McFly: Yeah! That`s right! That`s right, I am a slacker! Don`t you remember, you gave me detention last week!
S. S. Strickland: Last week? The school burned down six years ago! Now you got exactly three seconds to get off my porch with your nuts intact! One!
Marty McFly: [screams] Oh, please! Mr. Strickland! I just wanna know what the hell`s going on here!
S. S. Strickland: Two!
Marty McFly: [covers groin] Ahhhhh!
[gang members in a truck round the corner]
Gang Member: Hey, Strickland!
[they do a drive-by]
Marty McFly: [covering his ears] Ah! Ah! Oh! Oh!
[jumps over porch]
S. S. Strickland: [fires two rounds] Eat lead, slackers!
Skinhead: You`re coming with us upstairs!
Marty McFly: [struggling to get free] Let me go!
Match: [grabbing Marty] Sonny, we can do this the *easy* way or the *hard* way!
[3-D hits Marty over the head]
Miscellaneous voice: The easy way.
Marty McFly: [seeing a holographic ad for "Jaws 19"] Shark still looks fake.
Lorraine Baines: [frowns at a stuttering Marty] Are you all right?
Marty McFly: [stares at his mother`s obviously enlarged breasts] I`m fine, I`m fine. It`s just that you`re so... you`re so... big.
Marty McFly: What about the police, Biff? They`re gonna match up the bullet with that gun.
Biff Tannen: Kid, I own the police! Besides, they couldn`t match up the bullet that killed your old man.
Marty McFly: You son of a...
[Biff cocks the gun]
Biff Tannen: I suppose it`s poetic justice - two McFlys with the same gun.
Marty McFly: Nice shot Doc! You`re not gonna believe this, we gotta go back to 1955.
Doc: I don`t believe it!
[Biff has just received his auto repair bill after crashing it into a manure truck]
Biff Tannen: 300 bucks? 300 bucks for a couple of dents? Now, hey, that`s bullshit, Terry.
Terry: No, Biff, it was *horseshit*! The whole car was full of it. I had to pay old man Jones 80 bucks to haul it away!
Biff Tannen: Old Man Jones! Probably re-sold it too. Now, I oughtta get something for *that*!
Terry: You want to get something for it! We`ll go inside, you can call Old Man Jones! If he wants to give you a refund, that`s fine!
Marty McFly: Where are we? When are we?
Doc: We`re descending toward Hill Valley, California, at 4:29 pm, on Wednesday, October 21st, 2015.
Marty McFly: 2015? You mean we`re in the future?
Jennifer: Future? Marty, what do you mean? How can we be in the future?
Marty McFly: Uh, Jennifer, um, I don`t know how to tell you this, but I... you`re in a time machine.
Jennifer: And this is the year `2015`?
Doc: October 21st, 2015.
Marty McFly: The almanac. Son of a bitch stole my idea! He must have been listening when I- It`s my fault! The whole thing is my fault. If I hadn`t bought that damn book, none of this would have ever happened.
Doc: Well, that`s all in the past.
Marty McFly: You mean the future.
Doc: Whatever! It demonstrates precisely how time travel can be mis-used, and why the time machine must be destroyed, after we straighten all of this out.
Marty McFly: I don`t get it, Doc. I mean, how can all this be happening? It`s like we`re in Hell or something.
Doc: No, it`s Hill Valley. Although I can`t imagine Hell being much worse!
Doc: Oh, and Marty, be careful around that Griff character. He`s got a few short circuits in his bionic implants.
Old Biff: You always did have a way with women.
Young Biff: Get the hell out of my car, old man!
Old Biff: You wanna marry that girl, Biff? I can help make it happen.
Young Biff: Oh-oh, yeah, who are you, Miss Lonelyhearts?
Old Biff: Just get in the car, Butthead.
Young Biff: Who you callin` "butthead", Butthead?
[Old Biff starts the car]
Young Biff: How do you know how to do that? Nobody can start this car but me.
Old Biff: Just get in the car, Tannen. Today`s your lucky day.
Marty McFly: I had a horrible nightmare. It was terrible.
Lorraine Baines: Well, you`re safe and sound now. Back on the good old 27th floor.
Marty McFly: 27th floor?
Needles: Hey, the big M! How`s it hanging, McFly?
[after Marty pushes Griff]
Griff Tannen: Well! Since when did you become the physical type?
Biff Tannen: Where is he?
CPR Kid: Who?
Biff Tannen: Calvin Klein.
CPR Kid: Who?
Biff Tannen: The guy with the hat. Where is he?
CPR Kid: Oh he went that way. I think he took your wallet!
[to bystander]
CPR Kid: I think he took his wallet.
Marty McFly: `Cubs win world series... against Miami`?
Old Terry: Yeah, it`s something, huh? Who would`ve thought? 100 to 1 shot! I wish I could go back to the beginning of the season, put some money on the Cubs.
Marty McFly: I just meant that Miami- What did you just say?
Old Terry: I said I wish I could go back to the beginning of the season, put some money on the Cubbies!
[Biff has chased Marty to the roof of a building]
Biff Tannen: Go ahead, kid! Jump! A suicide will be nice and neat.
Marty McFly: What if I don`t?
[Biff points gun at Marty]
Biff Tannen: Lead poisoning.
Doc: They`re taking her home, to your future home! We`ll arrive shortly thereafter, get her out of there and go back to 1985.
Marty McFly: You mean, I`m gonna see where I live? I`m gonna see myself as an old man?
Doc: No, no, no Marty, that could result in a-
[gasps]
Doc: Great Scott! Jennifer could conceivably encounter her future self! The consequences of that could be disastrous!
Marty McFly: Doc, what do you mean?
Doc: I foresee two possibilities. One, coming face to face with herself 30 years older would put her into shock and she`d simply pass out. Or two, the encounter could create a time paradox, the results of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space time continuum, and destroy the entire universe! Granted, that`s a worse case scenario. The destruction might in fact be very localized, limited to merely our own galaxy.
Marty McFly: Well, that`s a relief.
Goldie Wilson III: [in TV Commercial] Hi friends, Goldie Wilson III for Wilson Hover Conversion Systems. You know, when my Grandpa was Mayor of Hill Valley, he had to worry about traffic problems. But now, you don`t have to worry about traffic. I`ll hover convert your old road car into a skyway flyer! For only $39,999.95. So come on down and see me Goldie Wilson III, at any one of our 29 convenient locations. Remember, keep `em flying!
Officer Reese: Hilldale, nothing but a breeding ground for tranks, lobos and zipheads.
Officer Foley: Yeah, they outta tear this whole place down.
House Computer: [they use Jennifer`s thumbprint to open the door] Welcome home, Jennifer.
Officer Reese: [Jennifer begins to awaken] You all right? You got a little tranked, but I think you can walk.
Officer Foley: Ma`am, you should reprogram, it`s dangerous to enter without `lights on`.
[answering the phone]
Marty McFly: Hey, Needles.
Needles: So, did you take a look at that little business proposal of mine?
Marty McFly: I don`t know Needles.
Needles: What are you afraid of? If this thing works it`ll solve all your financial problems.
Marty McFly: And if it doesn`t work Needles, I could get fired! It`s *illegal*! I mean, what if the Jitz is monitoring, huh?
Needles: The Jitz will never find out!
Marty McFly: Oh, ha, ha.
Needles: Come on... Stick your card in the slot and I`ll handle it. Unless you want everyone in the division to think your chicken.
Marty McFly: [angrily] Nobody calls me `chicken`, Needles. Nobody!
Needles: All right, prove it.
Marty McFly: All right, all right Needles. Here`s my card. Scan it, I`m in.
Needles: Thanks McFly, I`ll see you at the plant tomorrow.
Iko `Jitz` Fujitsu, Marty`s Boss in 2015: [shouts] McFly!
Marty McFly: Fujitsu-san, Kon-nichiwa.
Iko `Jitz` Fujitsu, Marty`s Boss in 2015: McFly, I was monitoring that scan you just interfaced. You are *terminated*!
Marty McFly: Terminated? No, no, it wasn`t my fault sir! It was Needles, Needles was behind the whole thing!
Iko `Jitz` Fujitsu, Marty`s Boss in 2015: And you cooperated!
Marty McFly: No, I didn`t, ah, it was sting operation.
Iko `Jitz` Fujitsu, Marty`s Boss in 2015: It was illegal, and you knew!
Marty McFly: I was - I was - I was setting him up.
Iko `Jitz` Fujitsu, Marty`s Boss in 2015: McFly, read my fax!
Marty McFly: No! Please! No! I cannot be fired, I`m fired! Oh!
[Fax comes out saying "YOU`RE FIRED!" on three different machines, In concern, Jennifer takes one of the copies]
Marty McFly: Oh, this is heavy.
[crumples a copy of the fax against his forehead]
Marty McFly: What am I gonna tell Jennifer?
[after leaving Jennifer on her front porch swing]
Marty McFly: I don`t remember bars being on these windows...
Marty McFly: [referring to Old Biff] How could he be your husband? How could you leave dad for him?
Old Lorraine: Leave dad? Marty, are you feeling all right?
Marty McFly: [shouting] No! No I`m not feeling all right! I don`t understand one damn thing that`s going on around here and why nobody can give me a simple straight answer!
Old Lorraine: Oh, they must have hit you over the head hard this time.
Marty McFly: Mom, I just wanna know one thing. Where`s my father? Where`s George McFly?
Old Lorraine: Marty... George... Your father is in the same place he`s been for the past 12 years... Oak Park Cemetery.
Biff Tannen: Hey kid, say hello to your grandma for me.
Old Lorraine: Aren`t you and Jennifer getting along?
Middle-Aged Marty: Oh, yeah, great Mom. We`re like a couple o` teenagers, ya know?
Old Biff: Tough break, kid. Must be rough bein` named after a complete butthead.
Marty McFly: What`s that supposed to mean?
[Biff knocks on Marty`s head with his cane]
Old Biff: Hello? Hello? Anybody home? Huh? Think, McFly! Think! Your old man, Mr. Loser?
Marty McFly: What?
Old Biff: That`s right. Loser with a capital "L".
Marty McFly: Look, I-I happen to know George McFly is not a loser...
Old Biff: [interrupts him] I`m not talkin` about George McFly. I`m talkin` about his kid! Your old man, Marty McFly Sr.? The man who took his life and flushed it completely down the toilet.
Marty McFly: I did? I - I mean - I mean he did?
Marty McFly: The answer`s no, Griff.
Griff Tannen: No?
Marty McFly: Yeah, what are you deaf and stupid? I said "NO!"
Griff Tannen: What`s wrong, McFly. Chicken?
Western Union Man: Kid, you all right? You need any help?
Marty McFly: There`s only one man who can help me.
Marty McFly: Are you two related?
Biff Tannen: [knocking on Marty`s head] Hello? Hello? Anybody home? What do you think? Griff just called me Grandpa for his health?
[Doc and Marty in the time machine are about to depart from the Alternate 1985]
Doc: Time circuits on.
Marty McFly: What do you mean "Time Curcuits on"? Doc, we`re not goin` back now!
Doc: Yep.
Marty McFly: Doc, What about Jennifer? What about Einstein? We can`t just leave `em here.
Doc: Don`t worry, Marty. Assuming we succeed in our mission, this alternate 1985 will be changed back into the real 1985, instantaneously transforming around Jennifer and Einie. Jennifer and Einie will be fine, and they will have absolutely no memory of this horrible place.
Marty McFly: Doc... what if we don`t succeed?
Doc: We *must* succeed.
Young Doc: Nice talking to you. Maybe we`ll bump into each other sometime again in the future.
Older Doc: Or in the past.
`Ronald Reagan` Video Waiter: Welcome to the Cafe 80`s, where it`s always morning in America, even in the afternoo-noo-noon. Our special today is mesquite-grilled sushi...
`Ayatollah Khomeini` Video Waiter: [interrupts] You must have the hostage special!
`Ronald Reagan` Video Waiter: Cajun style.
`Ayatollah Khomeini` Video Waiter: You must have the hostage special.
[they keep repeating over each other, talking faster and faster]
Marty McFly: Hey, hey, hey, wait a minute, guys, hey, hey, hey guys! All I want is a Pepsi.
[Marty and Doc have just arrived back in 1955]
Doc: Sometime today, old Biff will show up to give young Biff the Almanac. Above all, you must not interfere with that event. We must let Old Biff believe he succeeded, so that he`ll leave 1955 and bring the DeLorean back to the future.
Marty McFly: Right.
Doc: Once Old Biff is gone, grab the Almanac anyway that you can. Remember, both of our futures depend on this.
Marty McFly: You don`t have to remind me of that, Doc.
Doc: Roads? Where we`re going, we don`t need roads.
Marty McFly: [showing the two boys how to play the shoot `em up video game] I`ll show you, kid. I`m a crack shot at this.
[shoots a perfect score with the electronic gun]
Video Game Boy #1: You mean you have to use your hands?
Video Game Boy #2: That`s like a baby`s toy!
Marty McFly, Jr.: [re: the tiny pizza from Pizza Hut] Grandma, when it`s ready, could you just shove it in my mouth?
Middle-Aged Marty: Don`t you be a smart-ass!
[first lines]
Young Jennifer: How `bout a ride, mister?
Marty McFly: Jennifer! Oh, man, are you a sight for sore eyes; let me look at you.
Young Jennifer: Marty, you`re acting like you haven`t seen me in a week.
Marty McFly: I haven`t.
Biff Tannen: You`re supposed to be in Switzerland, you little son of a bitch!
Marty McFly: My father?
Biff Tannen: Did you get kicked out of another boarding school? Damn it, Lorraine, do you know how much perfectly good dough I blow on this no-good kid of yours, huh? On all three of them!
Lorraine Baines: What the hell do you care? We can afford it! The least we can do with all that money is provide a better life for our children!
Grandma Tannen: Biff, Biff, where are you goin` now?
Biff Tannen: I told you, grandma, I`m goin` to the dance.
Grandma Tannen: When you comin` home?
Biff Tannen: I`ll get home, when I get home.
Grandma Tannen: Don`t forget to turn off the garage lights!
Old Biff: Buttheads...
Red the Bum: Crazy drunk pedestrians!
Doc: I went to a rejuvenation clinic and got a whole natural overhaul. They took out some wrinkles, did hair repair, changed the blood, added a good 30 to 40 years to my life. They also replaced my spleen and colon. What do you think?
Biff Tannen: Hold on one second. Let`s get this straight. Marty is *your* kid, not mine. And all the money in the world wouldn`t do jack shit for that lazy bum!
Lorraine Baines: Stop it, Biff, just stop it!
Biff Tannen: Look at him. He`s a butthead just like his old man was.
Lorraine Baines: Don`t you dare speak that way about George! You`re not even half the man he was.
[Biff throws her on the floor]
Lorraine Baines: Biff, somebody already asked me to the dance.
Biff Tannen: Who? That bug George McFly?
Lorraine Baines: I`m going with Calvin Klein, okay?
Biff Tannen: Calvin Klein? No, it`s not okay!
Young Biff: Manure! I hate manure!
Biff Tannen Museum Narrator: Ladies and Gentlemen! Welcome to the Biff Tannen Museum! Dedicated to Hill Valley`s #1 Citizen. And America`s greatest living folk hero. The one and only Biff Tannen. Of course we`ve all heard the legend, but who is the man? Inside you will learn how Biff Tannen became one of the richest and most powerful men in America. Learn the amazing history of the Tannen family, starting with his great-grandfather, Buford `Mad Dog` Tannen, fastest gun in the West. See Biff`s humble beginnings and how a trip to the race track on his 21st Birthday made him a millionaire overnight. Share in the excitement of a fabulous winning streak that earned him the nickname "The Luckiest Man on Earth." Learn how Biff parlayed that lucky winning streak into the vast empire called Biffco. Discover how, in 1979, Biff successfully lobbied to legalize gambling and turned Hill Valley`s dilapidated courthouse into a beautiful casino-hotel!
Biff Tannen: I just wanna say one thing! God Bless America.
Biff Tannen Museum Narrator: Meet the women who shared in his passion as he searched for true love. And relive Biff`s happiest moment as in 1973, he realized his life long romantic dream by marrying his high school sweetheart, Lorraine Baines McFly.
Biff Tannen: Third times a charm.
[French kisses Lorraine]
Marty McFly: NO!
Marty McFly, Jr.: [in background watching TV] Oh great, the atrocity channel!
Lorraine Baines: Dammit Biff, that`s it. I`m leaving!
Biff Tannen: Oh, so go ahead. But think about this Lorraine, who`s gonna pay for all your clothes, huh? And your jewelry, and your liquor? Who`s gonna pay for your cosmetic surgery Lorraine?
Lorraine Baines: You were the one who wanted me to get these-these things! If you want `em back, you can have em.
Biff Tannen: Look, Lorraine, you walk out that door and I won`t only cut off you, I`ll cut off your kids.
Lorraine Baines: You wouldn`t!
Biff Tannen: Oh, wouldn`t I? First, your daughter Linda, I`ll cancel all her credit cards. She can settle her debts with the bank all by herself. Your idiot son Dave? I`ll get his probation revoked. And as for Marty, well maybe you`d like to have all three of your kids behind bars just like your brother Joey. One big happy jailbird family.
Lorraine Baines: Alright Biff, you win. I`ll stay.
Biff Tannen: [to Marty] As for you, I`ll be back up here in an hour, so you better not be!
Biff Tannen: Hey butthead!
[repeated line]
Doc: Great Scott!
[repeated line]
Marty McFly: This is heavy.
Marty McFly: Tell me about my future. I know I make it big, but do I become, like, a rich rock star?
Doc: Please Marty. No one should know too much about their destiny.
Marty McFly, Jr.: Hey, hey! I`m walkin` here! I`m walkin` here!
Griff Tannen: Gramps, what the hell am I paying you for?
[Biff is walking down the street when a basketball suddenly rolls his way. He picks it up claiming it for himself]
Basketball Kids: [rightful owners come up] Give us our ball back. Give us our ball back.
Biff Tannen: Is this your ball?
Basketball Kids: Yes!
Biff Tannen: Do you want it back?
Basketball Kids: Yes!
Biff Tannen: [throws the basketball onto an upper balcony of a brown house] Well, go get it! Ha-ha!
Data: Hey McFly, you bojo, those boards don`t work on water!
Whitey: Unless you`ve got POWER!
[laughs]
Trivia
Crispin Glover played George McFly in Back to the Future (1985), but was replaced by Jeffrey Weissman in Part II. Weissman was made up to look like Glover so that this film could incorporate excerpts from the original. All shots of Weissman are either from the back, at an angle, or with Sunglasses so that the audience wouldn`t notice that it is a different actor.
Elisabeth Shue was cast as Jennifer, and all the closing shots of Back to the Future (1985) were re-shot for the beginning of this film. Claudia Wells (Jennifer in Back to the Future (1985)) was unable to reprise her role as she had stopped acting because her mother had been diagnosed with cancer. She returned to acting for the independent film Still Waters Burn (2008).
Filmed at the same time as Back to the Future Part III (1990). In the five years since the original was made, Michael J. Fox had forgotten how to ride a skateboard.
The two police officers are named Reese and Foley, which are the names that director Robert Zemeckis and screenwriter Bob Gale use for any police or government agents in the films they have written.
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# A movie theatre advertises "Jaws 19", directed by "Max Spielberg". Executive producer Steven Spielberg, who directed Jaws (1975), has a son Max.
In 2015, when Doc and Marty look at the USA Today newspaper and see the headline change, the following headlines and blurbs are: Across the top: 1. Slamball Playoffs Begin (Slamball would become a televised sport in 2002) 2. Cubs Sweep Series In 5 (a World Series sweep would be in 4 wins thus implying the playoffs have been expanded in the future) 3. Marshall Runs 3min. Mile 4. Washington Prepares For Queen Diana`s Visit (the film was released 8 years before Princess Diana`s death) On The Side: 1. Thumb Bandits Strike (Reference to an unused concept of Bob Gale`s that no one would use paper money but would have their thumbprint to pay for things. Thus leading to crimes of thieves cutting off people`s thumbs) 2. Man Killed By Falling Litter 3. Tokyo Stocks Are Up 4. Swiss Terrorist Threat 5. Shredding For Charity 6. President Says She`s Tired 7. Queen Diana... (Repeated Headline) 8. Kelp Prices Increase 9. Pitcher Suspended For Bionic Arm Use 10. Slamball Playoffs (Repeated Headline) 11. "Jaws" Without Bite (Movie review of the "Jaws 19" gag in the film) Main Headline of Griff and His Gang`s arrest: "Gang Jailed" "Hoverboard Rampage Destroys Courthouse" "Gang Leader: I Was Framed" Caption below Griff`s picture: Gang Leader Had Bionic Overload.
In the "1985A" scene where Marty watches a documentary on the life of Biff in front of the casino, there is a still photo of the part 3 villain, Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen. According to Bob Gale in the DVD Commentary, this was a still of and early make-up test for Mad Dog. The look was changed when part 3 began.
One scene from Part 3 was filmed during the shooting of Part 2. In the scene where Doc & Marty return from the future to "1985A" and drop Jennifer off on her front porch swing, the cast and crew waited for daylight and film the scene where Marty comes back from 1885 in western dress and wakes up Jennifer. (This is according to Bob Gale in the DVD Commentary)
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# When Marty arrives in 2015, he looks in the window of an antique store, where we see the denim jacket that he wore in 1985, a Roger Rabbit doll and a Jaws (1987) (VG) Nintendo game. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) was also directed by Robert Zemeckis.
The Jaws (1987) (VG) video game seen in the antique store window was made by LJN for the early releases on the Nintendo Entertainment System. LJN would go on to make video games based on this movie and Back to the Future Part III (1990) LJN also made the NES game based on Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988); a doll of Roger also appears in that same window with the Jaws game.
In promotional material such as Back to the Future Part II Behind-the-Scenes Special Presentation (1989) (TV) director, Robert Zemeckis explained that "hoverboards float on magnetic energy". He also added, "they`ve been around for years, it`s just that parent groups haven`t let toy manufacturers make them. But we got our hands on some and put them in the movie." He was only joking of course but interesting enough, Mattel (whose logo appeared on the hoverboard props) soon found themselves overwhelmed with callers asking where they could buy one. Although they looked pretty convincing in the movie, the hoverboards were simply wooden props attached to the actors feet. To make the boards fly, the actors were suspended by cables.
The Wild Gunman (1984) (VG) video game in Cafe 80`s was specially made for the film. Wild Gunman was an actual light gun game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, but was never a dedicated arcade cabinet. It was, however, included in many of Nintendo`s Play Choice 10 machines, hence why a lightgun was on the cabinet. The sound effects heard in the movie are from the game, but, the on screen graphics are entirely new, drawn to resemble what appeared. Ironically, the actual game itself had far better animation.
The shooting title for the movie was "Paradox". During some special features on the DVD release, it is seen used on the slate during the making of the movie.
When Doc sees the future newspaper headline change to tell him that he was "commended" instead of "committed", a headline at the bottom of the page changes from "Nixon seeks fifth term" to "Reagan seeks second term". (Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan).
Crispin Glover had not granted permission to use his likeness, and sued Steven Spielberg. The suit was settled, and the Screen Actors Guild introduced new rules about illicit use of actors.
The 1990 TV special The Secrets of the Back to the Future Trilogy (1990) (TV) showed some sequences cut from the film: - Biff fades out of 2015 after stumbling out of the DeLorean and behind some trash cans - Marty discovers the destroyed Hill Valley High School
On the fax that tells Marty he`s fired, the address, "11249 Business Center Road, Hill Valley, CA 95420-4345," is obviously fictional, but in reality the ZIP code belongs to the city of Caspar, about 500 miles north of Los Angeles on the coast of California.
In the alternate timeline, George McFly is murdered on March 15th - the ides of March.
The old man who wishes he had bet on the Cubbies is played by Charles Fleischer, who did Roger Rabbit`s voice. He also plays the younger version of his character, Terry the tow truck driver in 1955.
A scene in which Marty meets his brother, Dave (played by Marc McClure), in the alternate 1985 was eventually cut because Wendie Jo Sperber (who played Linda, Marty`s sister) could not reprise her role because at the time, she was pregnant.
In one scene, Marty McFly Jr. almost gets hit by a taxi. He yells: "I`m walkin` here! I`m walkin` here!" This is a reference to Midnight Cowboy (1969).
The futuristic looking cab that takes "old Biff" to the DeLorean, while it is parked near Marty and Jennifer`s 2015 home, is a Citroen DS. This car went into production in October 1955, so it could, conceivably, have appeared in the original movie. The same car appears as a wreck in the "alternative" 1985.
In 2015, when Doc discovers Marty has bought the sports almanac, there is poster advertising "Surf Vietnam"; a possible reference to Apocalypse Now (1979).
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# In 2015, several cars from other sci-fi movies can be seen, including a Spinner from Blade Runner (1982) and the StarCar from The Last Starfighter (1984). Other cars seen are (highly) modified Ford Probes and Mustangs, as well as concept cars.
In this movie there is a scene in which Doc Brown holds a conversation his 1955 counterpart (who is unaware of who he is talking to). During this scene Doc is wearing a brown trench coat and hat. If you look carefully in the first movie, you can see a man dressed exactly like this (and therefore, presumably Doc) walking away shortly before the clock-tower scene. In the DVD commentary it is explained that this was not intentional, as the script for the second movie hadn`t even been written at the time that they filmed the first one.
The ledge on the clock tower that Doc broke in the first movie is still broken in 2015.
Several elaborate sequences were deleted through various revisions of the script, including: -During the 2015 hoverboard chase, Marty grabs on to a flying car that actually pulls him into the sky to a very high altitude. When Marty loses his grip, he is rescued by Doc in a flying van. -Marty and Doc, after learning when Biff received the almanac, have to escape in the DeLorean during a police shootout. When the car`s flying circuits are damaged by gunfire, Doc plunges the time machine straight toward the ground in order to reach 88mph. -While Marty and Doc try to recover the almanac, the fusion generator (and in later revisions, the time circuits) is damaged by Farmer Peabody - a character Marty encountered in the first film - who still thinks the DeLorean is a space ship. -With Mr. Fusion and the flight circuits heavily damaged, Marty and Doc fly the DeLorean into an array of power lines over the Grand Canyon to generate enough power to return to 1985.
Biff`s alternate 1985 incarnation was loosely inspired by Donald Trump, while Lorraine`s was based upon Tammy Faye Bakker.
This time travel film takes place on the night where DST (Daylight Savings Time) ends for the year 1985.
Biff Tannen`s rise to fortune occurred in 1958, not in 1955. It is mentioned during the Biff Museum`s video presentation. Also, Biff would have been 17 going on 18 years old in 1955. Too young to legally gamble, he had to wait until he was 21 years old to get in to the race track to place any bets (1958)
The closing scenes of the first movie were re-shot as the opening scenes of this film. Several changes were made, especially in Christopher Lloyd`s delivery of his lines.
First film appearance by Elijah Wood.
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# One initial idea for the sequel had the first two acts the same, but the third act had Biff giving his younger self the almanac in the 1960s, not in 1955. When Marty went back to stop him, he ran into his parents again (who were now hippies) and almost stopped his own conception. Robert Zemeckis decided that it was too similar an idea to the first film and came up with the idea of revisiting the original film from different angles with the two Martys in 1955.
The opening cloud shots were originally used for the Clint Eastwood movie Firefox (1982).
The principal actors committed to the sequels before any scripts were written. Crispin Glover did not return and writer Bob Gale came up with the idea to have George be murdered as a way of writing Crispin Glover out of the script.
When Marty visits his neighborhood in 2015, a dog can be seen in the background being walked by one of the robots from *batteries not included (1987).
The football scores Biff hears on the radio while driving are all actual scores from November 12, 1955, and the UCLA/Washington game he and old Biff listen to did indeed end with UCLA kicker Jim Decker hitting a last second field goal to win.
When "Hill Valley" was created for the original movie they built the town in the pristine 1955 condition and shot the middle of the movie, then damaged it for the 1985 town and shot the beginning and end of the movie. When they decided to shoot BTTF 2 they had to clean the set up and restore it to the same condition it was in 1955. It cost more to rebuild than it cost to build it from scratch.
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# The production of this film (and of Back to the Future Part III (1990)) was delayed for three years because Robert Zemeckis was busy making Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
When the unconscious Jennifer is taken home by the two officers in 2015, it looks as if great pains were taken to conceal the identity of the one officer (Reese). Her face is kept in the dark and her cap is even kept to where the bill is hiding her eyes. The actress portraying Officer Reese was in fact Mary Ellen Trainor who was Robert Zemeckis` wife at the time.
Despite the rumor that circulated in 1997, shortly after the Florida Marlins beat the Cleveland Indians for the World Series, the movie does not "spookily" predict the result. No mention is made of "Florida" winning the World Series at all, and the only mention of a Florida-based team is in a news broadcast which announces that the Chicago Cubs beat Miami in the 2015 World Series (a joke at the Cubs` expense - they hadn`t won the World Series since 1908). This rumor re-surfaced in 2003, when the Cubs and the Red Sox (both "cursed" teams) were in the playoffs. The rumor in Boston was that the movie said the Sox would win, and the rumor in Chicago was that the movie predicted the Cubs would win. The latter rumor was correct, but the former team went on to win the following year, in 2004. Also worth mentioning is that the Florida Marlins will soon change their team name to the Miami Marlins around 2011 (as part of an agreement to having their own ballpark built in Miami), so technically a Miami-based team would exist by 2015; another spookily-correct prediction.
Griff Tannens car in 2015 is a modified 6 series BMW
On his tombstone, George McFly (who was born on 1 April 1938), is revealed to have a middle name: Douglas.
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# Cheryl Wheeler-Dixon, stunt double for Darlene Vogel, was injured during filming of the hoverboard sequence when, due to a technical mishap, she careened into the concrete pillar.
According to the revised $6 USA Today newspaper article (which formerly featured Marty McFly Jr. arrested for theft and now featured Griff Tannen`s gang arrested for destruction of the Hill Valley courthouse`s window), the real names of Griff`s 2015 gang - Data, Spike and Whitey - are Rafe Unger, Leslie O`Malley, and Chester Nogura, respectively.
Bits and pieces were cut out of the dinner scene. When Marty Sr. says "I missed that whole thing", he`s referring to a cut scene where Lorraine mentions that Uncle Joey was turned down for parole again.
The tagline for Jaws 19 is "This time it`s really, REALLY personal".
Doc mentions that he left Einstein in a suspended animation kennel in 2015. This line was written in to explain why Einstein was not with Doc when he came back to 1985 to pick up Marty and Jennifer, since in Back to the Future (1985), Einstein had gone with Doc into the future, but was not there when Doc came back at the end of the film/beginning of Part II.
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# Doc mentions to Marty that he visited a rejuvenation clinic in the future to make him appear younger. This was written so that Christopher Lloyd would not have to constantly wear old-age makeup for the two sequels, since he would primarily be portraying the 1985 incarnation of Doc.
The casino neon sign incorporating Biff Tannen`s signature was modeled after a neon sign that once stood on Bob Stupak`s Vegas World Casino (now the Stratosphere) in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The hotel tower for "Biff`s Casino" was actually the hotel tower for the Plaza Hotel and Casino in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada.
# After Biff gets his cane stuck in the DeLorean after return to 2015, he starts to thrash around in pain, apparently having a hard time from the exertion. However, Robert Zemeckis has stated that Biff was experiencing the same thing that Marty did at the dance in the first movie: fading out of history. The idea was that, by going back in time to give the sports almanac to his younger self, Biff had somehow altered his own future so that he no longer existed in the year 2015. Apparently, Zemeckis said, Biff`s wife (Marty`s mother) had shot and killed Biff sometime after 1985. A small scene was clipped from the end which made this much clearer as we actually see Biff vanish.
Originally only one sequel was planned. The script for this sequel, known as "Paradox" included all the elements of both Parts II and III, but compressed to fit into one movie. However, it was revealed with the release of the DVD set that there was an even earlier script which involved Marty meeting up with his parents while they`re college students in the sixties. (This was probably dropped because no matter how you cut it, George and Lorraine wouldn`t have been in college during the "Protest Era", they were too old.)
Many shows from the 1980s are featured on the televisions inside the Cafe 80s, including "Family Ties" (1982) and "Taxi" (1978), which originally starred Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, respectively.
# In the DVD extras of Back to the Future part 2, Robert Zemeckis had said that he really did not want the movie to take place in the future. That is because he felt that every time that a movie takes place in the future, it is mis-predicted.
The movie Biff is watching in the hotel suite hot tub, when Marty confronts him about the sports almanac, is Per un pugno di dollari (1964).
Griff`s `Pit Bull` Hoverboard was originally to be called `Mad Dog` to foreshadow his character in part 3.
According to the sign hung above the front door of Biff`s house his grandmother`s first name is "Gertrude."
We learn several bits of information about Needles during his phone call with Marty. In the order they appear on the screen, they are: -Needles, Douglas J. -Occupation: Sys Operations -Age: 47 -Birthday: August 6, 1968 -Address: 88 Oriole Rd, A6t -Wife: Lauren Anne -Children: Roberta, 23 Amy, 20 -Food Prefence: Steak, Mex -Food Dislike: Fish, Tuna -Drinks: Scotch, Beer -Hobbies: Avid Basketball Fan -Sports: Jogging, Slamball, Tennis -Politics: None
The image of two nude women on the large screen when Marty Jr. says "art off" is "The Gold of Their Bodies (Et l`or de leurs corps)" by Paul Gauguin. The original is in Musée d`Orsay, Paris, France.
Also present in the 2015 antique shop, front and center, is the video game Burgertime for NES. Burgertime which was an arcade game ported to several home video game platforms also including Mattel Intellivision and Atari 2600.
According to the Animated Annecdotes on the DVD, the expandable baseball bat Griff Tannen uses is a "Kirk Gibson Jr. Slugger 2000."
In the first draft of the script, Marty`s middle name was "Hopkins".
The original theatrical and premium cable TV versions of the film end with the phrase "To Be Concluded" and a teaser for Back to the Future Part III (1990). Russ Meyer was the only filmmaker to have ended a movie with a trailer before this release.
When the future Marty McFly attempts to play his guitar, he plays part of the main riff of `Power of Love` by Huey Lewis and The News, the theme song for the original movie.
Although Marty McFly comments that his son "looks just like him", there is one notable difference between the two (aside from a faulty jacket sleeve and a white T-shirt): Marty McFly Jr has brown eyes, whereas his father doesn`t (this can be seen most clearly in the scene with Griff in Cafe 80s).
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# When the Delorean is struck by lightning at the end of Back to the Future 2, he travels back to January 1, 1885 at 12:00am (as shown by the malfunctioning time circuits right before they go back to 1955). When they travel into the future at the beginning of BTTF 2, they arrive on October 21, 2015 at 4:29pm. This means that the total time the Delorean has passed through is 130 years, 9 months, 20 days, 16 hours, and 29 minutes.
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# `Back To The Future Part II` was the most advanced film of its time for using `every trick in the book` according to Robert Zemeckis. It was in the late 80s when the concept of CGI was starting, however in the film, very few CGI effects were actually needed.
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# The biggest effect of the picture is the vista glide. There are three scenes that use the effect of the same actor interacting with themselves. The three scenes that were shot was 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 the vista glide, 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. `Back To The Future Part II` 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 old Biff`s hand disappears during the scene in the garage.
In conjunction to Old Biff`s deleted scene where he vanishes, the writers had it planned somewhere in early drafts that Lorraine shot him in 1996.
During filming of the cut sequence where the McFly family gathers around the table in 2015, between takes they had an earthquake, and were afraid the props may have moved around too much to edit the scene seamlessly as `Michael J. Fox` had played 3 characters in the same shot. To the film crew`s surprise however, everything was exactly where it was supposed to be for the sequence.
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# In 1985A, when Marty stumbles across Biff`s Pleasure Casino, he bumps into `Red`, the bum from the first movie. `Red` Thomas was the mayor of Hill valley in 1955.
Doc tells Marty, "Just say `no`" to Griff Tannen, when they first arrive in 2015. That phrase was the popular Reagan Administration slogan for peer pressure among youth in the 80s. Not only was Ronald Reagan spoofed in this film, but Fox`s Alex P. Keaton from "Family Ties" (1982) was a supporter of the president.
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Elisabeth Shue
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with Michael Fox
(as Marty McFly | Marty McFly Jr | Marlene McFly)
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