I was 11 when “Back
to the Future” hit theaters. Not yet in high school. (I got called “McFly!” A
lot.) But I loved the story and acting, and knew this movie was whip smart. Watching
it again with high school long past and looking at 1985 as movie hero Marty
McFly looks at 1955, I’m blown away. “Future” is epic. You know the plot:
Michael J. Fox -– then a TV star -– is Marty, a skate-boarding 1980s teen who
gets zapped back 30 years in a time machine sports car (how genius!) built by an
eccentric nut-job scientist (Christopher Lloyd). In 1955, McFly meets the teenagers
(Lea Thompson as a hottie and Crispin Glover as an incredible nerd) who will be
his parents, and puts his own existence in jeopardy when he crashes their
meet-cute. Never mind sci-fi, Robert Zemekis’ film is one of the great
comedies, with marvelous turns from the whole cast, especially Tom Wilson as an
idiot bully. The script toys with time-travel like a kid in a Lego store and
serves up Ronald Reagan jokes so great Ronal Reagan loved them. Fox –so young –
defines movie stardom. A childhood favorite improved with age, I love it. A+
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