Marty and Doc fix the McFly family in the year 2015 only to find new wrinkles back home in Hill Valley, 1985, which forces them to go back to 1955 to fix the future. Whew! Academy Award Nominations: Best Visual Effects.

Time-traveling Marty McFly propels himself into the year 2015 in order to keep his future son from going to prison. But while there, he commits a careless error that threatens to disrupt the precarious balance of the space-time continuum. What follows is a dizzying chase back and forth through nearly seven decades in an attempt to set events back into their proper order. And many of the scenes from the first film are revisited, only this time from a slightly different point of view.

The double and triple exposures in the film were shot with the Vistaglide system -- a computerized camera that allows actors to more easily interact with themselves while playing several roles in the same scene. The system was first used in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988), also directed by Roger Zemeckis.

Crispin Glover did not work on this sequel (apparently he was unable to come to a financial agreement with the film's producers). He does, however, appear in the film -- in footage from the first movie -- and is also doubled in several scenes by actor Jeffrey Weissman.

Shot in DeLuxe color.

Selected for the 1989 London Film Festival.

Itself a sequel, this film was followed by another sequel: Back to the Future III (1990).

DVD Features:

Snap Case
Anamorphic Widescreen
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, French
Subtitles - English, (SDH), Spanish
Additional Release Material:
Deleted Scenes
Outtakes
Music Video: Huey Lewis & The News "Power of Love" Music Video
Production Archives
Production Design
Recommendations
Theatrical Trailer
Audio Commentary:
1. Producers Bob Gales
2. Neil Canton
Featurette:
1. The Making of Back to the Future Part II
2. Making the Trilogy: Chapter Two
3. Q&A with Director Robert Zemeckis and Producer Bob Gale
4. Did You Know That? Universal Animated Anecdotes
5. Designing the DeLorean
6. Evolution Visual Effects Shots
7. Hoverboard Test
8. Designing Time Travel
Text/Photo Galleries:
Production Notes
Storyboarding
Biographies:
1. Cast
2. Filmmakers
DVD-ROM Features:
Total Axess

Michael J. Fox: Canadian actor, FAMILY TIES/BACK TO THE FUTURE
Christopher Lloyd: Actor, TAXI
Lea Thompson: American actress
Thomas F. Wilson: American Actor
Elisabeth Shue: American Actress, LEAVING LAS VEGAS (1995)

Robert Zemeckis: American director/screenwriter

Arthur Schmidt: Editor, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEA

"...[Zemeckis and Gale] skillfully integrate many snippets from the other film into this one....Fox approaches his role as an eternal good sport..."
"...FUTURE II's best moments are like a Tex Avery cartoon with live actors, crammed to the edges of the frame with nutty touches....Technically, the film brings multiple role-playing to new deftness..."