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From: upstill@ucbvax.ARPA (Steve Upstill)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Back to the Future (check it out)
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Date: Sun, 30-Jun-85 18:56:49 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 30 18:56:49 1985
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   Let me be the first to recommend Back to the Future.  There's life yet
in the Steven Spielberg's little world, which had started to get a  little
shopworn with Goonies.  All the familiar Spielberg elements are there: 
popular non-science, whacky nuclear family, small-town America, heartwarming
twists of plot, even [.......spoiler deleted ....] and [.........ditto.....].
Yet three things save this one, in high style: 1) Robert Zemeckis' direction.
I don't know how he does it, but somehow, without any particular style you
can point your finger at, he has developed the lightest touch in movies, and
I now believe that this man can put ANYTHING over on you, and make you love it.
2) The performance of the lead actor, whose name I don't even know.  He now
joins Tom (Risky Business) Cruise and ...(The Sure Thing) ... as the most
appealling young comic actors in America.  2a) The performance of Christopher
Lloyd as the Mad Scientist (benevelant).  3) The script, by director Zemeckis
and Bob Gale.  Believe me, if you know the premise of the movie, you can
predict just about everything that's going to happen after about 20 minutes.
Yet you enjoy seeing it happen anyway, because the dialogue is so good and
the sense of comic detail so keen.  Now I have to see Used Cars and I Wanna
Hold Your Hand.
   The only faults I would warn you about are mentioned above:  It's too
Spielberg-esque in the windup and somewhat pat neatness of it all.  But the
ride is a real joy.  ***-1/2 out of ****.  Take your mother to see it.  You
won't be sorry, and neither will she.

Steve Upstill