Back To The Future - Part 3 (DVD)

...his other self was sent back to 1985 by The Doc, Doctor Emmitt Brown, (played by Christopher Lloyd), via a bolt of lightening and the DeLorean… (are you with me so far..?)… right…
Marty, (the recent one..?) receives a letter from the Doc, only the letter is dated from 1885, creating much confusion and many dilemmas for Marty and the totally bewildered Doctor who has just seen Marty and the DeLorean disappear in a puff of smoke after being ...
...use it to get Marty back to 1985 so as not to mess the 'space-time continuum' up anymore…
Only Marty and the 1955 Doc discover something that makes them decide to go back in time to 1885 and rescue the Doc from someone called Bufford Tannen, or Mad dog, (played by Thomas F. Wilson), bringing him back to 1985... (still with me then..?)

Enter Marty McFly in 1885...on his rescue mission to save the Doc, only to discover that the ... more

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Producer: Steven Spielberg.
Writers: Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale.
Stars: Michael J. Fox, Chritopher Lloyd, mary Steenburgen, Thomas F. Wilson and Lea Thompson.

Released in 1990 this last in the trilogy of time travelling adventures where sanity seems to have left the planet.

**BRIEF PLOT**

The opening of this movie is sort of confusing as we see Marty McFly, (played by Michael J Fox) trapped in 1955, after seeing the Doc and the flying DeLorean disappear…but just after his other self was sent back to 1985 by The Doc, Doctor Emmitt Brown, (played by Christopher Lloyd), via a bolt of lightening and the DeLorean… (are you with me so far..?)… right…
Marty, (the recent one..?) receives a letter from the Doc, only the letter is dated from 1885, creating much confusion and many dilemmas for Marty and the totally bewildered Doctor who has just seen Marty and the DeLorean disappear in a puff of smoke after being struck by a controlled lightening strike… (still with me then…???)

So, now Marty and the Doc have to locate the DeLorean, which the 1885 Doc had hidden for the 1955 Doc and Marty to find… with instructions to use it to get Marty back to 1985 so as not to mess the 'space-time continuum' up anymore…
Only Marty and the 1955 Doc discover something that makes them decide to go back in time to 1885 and rescue the Doc from someone called Bufford Tannen, or Mad dog, (played by Thomas F. Wilson), bringing him back to 1985... (still with me then..?)

Enter Marty McFly in 1885...on his rescue mission to save the Doc, only to discover that the 1885 Doc has really settled into his new life and is disappointed at Marty coming back to find him.
The movie is then completely turned into a western type… and like all the previous Back to the Future sagas Marty is soon bumping into his ancestors, this time it is his great -great grandparents in Hill valley who have just arrive in the country.

So Marty… forced to think of an appropriate name for his new life in the wild west and coming up with the first cowboy type name he can think of… on protecting the Doc soon finds himself in more trouble than he bargained for and it is not too long before the pair begin to change the future with there interference, especially later on in the movie when they encounter Clara Clayton, (played by Mary Steenburgen), a helpless damsel in distress whose life should have taken a completely different turn until the Doc and Marty appear on the scene, only for the Doc to become smitten by her.

Then when Marty meets Mad Dog, the small towns outlaw and his posse, who begin to terrorise the Doc and his new found friend he soon realises that he is running out of time to get the doctor back to the future… only the DeLorean is out of fuel so they have to find another way of getting the car to get to its 88 miles per hour to achieve time travel…and the Doc has a plan… involving a train, some tube like explosive concoctions made by the Doctor and a very long but unfinished railway track.

** IN CONCLUSION **

Another great movie in the McFly series of time travelling adventures… although a little confusing if you haven't yet seen any of the others, but not essential to watch them in order it does help…

The beginning and the end coincide with the previous movies, but they don't do anything to confuse or spoil this brilliantly comical poke at the western movies… with an excellent story line to boot.
Fox and Lloyd do there usually perfect stuff, bringing so much humour into the movie, especially Lloyd with his mad looking white hair and almost lunatic expressions… pure genius from the insane actor once again.

The story is a simple one, once you get passed the confusion regarding whose who and how they got there, with action more or less right from the start.
The characters are again the same old faces only with different names, Biff is Buff and Strickland is the town Marshall instead of the principal of the 1955 school..? (don't worry, it's not as confusing as it sounds…)
Some of the scenes are classics as Marty uses his knowledge of the future to survive life in the 1885, like his improvised bullet proof chest and his accidental creation of the soon to be very popular Frisbee…

The ending does have a little bit of a twist, but haven't they all, leaving the possibility of maybe another Back to the Future Movie on the books… (although Fox did make these three movies simultaneously as not to be seen as aging during each one so a fourth one is very unlikely at this stage)…

* Would I recommend this..?

Yes I certainly would.
If you enjoyed the first two B.T.T.F. movies then this one will defiantly please you as this does seem to be the best out of he three for action/ entertainment/ comedy and shear time travel madness, giving nearly two hours of pure family fun.

You can get a copy of this movie from amazon for less than £7.00... Or even the entire three movies for less than £18.00 (which consists of 4 discs apparently)

* Other characters

Lea Thompson as Maggie McFly/Lorraine Baines McFly
Jeffrey Weissman as George McFly
James Tolken as Marshall James Strickland
Burton Gilliam as the colt salesman
And
ZZ Top as the dance band. 

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