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If Back to the Future was a perfect, self-contained loop of a teenager fixing his parents’ past, then Part II is a dazzling, chaotic explosion of what-ifs. Picking up literally seconds after the first film ends, director Robert Zemeckis and writer Bob Gale waste no time shattering the happy ending. Michael J. Fox’s Marty McFly and Christopher Lloyd’s Doc Brown are yanked from 1985 not by danger, but by a family crisis—in the future .

Here’s a concise write-up of Back to the Future Part II (1989), the ambitious, time-hopping middle chapter of Robert Zemeckis’ iconic trilogy. Back To The Future Part 2