Anniversary of "an exercise in goofiness"

On November 20, 1989 in Century City, a suburb of Los Angeles, California, USA, the premiere of the second part of Robert Zemeckis's film "Back to the Future" took place.

Robert Zemeckis subsequently admitted that initially, at the time of work on the first part, the creation of the sequel was not supposed. The creation of a sequel, as is usual in the film business, was pushed by the large financial success of the first part of the movie, the box office of which more than 20 times exceeded the costs of its creation.

Since the creation of the second part of the film was not originally intended, the script of this part had to be adjusted to the real situation with the actors: some of them were busy in other projects, someone simply refused for some reason. As a result, some characters had to be "killed", someone replaced. And this, of course, led to some logical exaggeration and, as a result, affected the quality of the film.

As is most often the case with sequels, the success of the second part was much more modest in all respects: the audience’s ratings are lower, the number of awards is lower, and the financial results are worse. But it’s not critical: the box office surpassed the budget of the movie by 8 times.

Roger Ebert, who rated the film three stars out of 4 possible, called this film "an exercise in goofiness, ... that is so baffling that even the characters are constantly trying to explain it to each other. ... And yet the movie is fun, mostly because it's so screwy."

What is characteristic of this American film is that it was rated higher outside the United States than domestically. If in the USA the film raised 118.5 million dollars, then outside the United States its box office was almost 100 million dollars more. It is difficult to say how much of the film’s boxing office is represented by Russian cinema viewers, but the average audience rating from American IMDB users was 7.7, and the average rating from Kinopoisk users was almost 8.3.

Thanks to such a high rating of the film by users of Kinopoisk, according to the FilmGourmand Methodology, the film is included in the Golden Thousand at number 638 with a rating of 8.06.