30 Years Ago: ‘Back to the Future II’ Doubles Down on Time Travel

It’s been three decades since the follow-up to the most successful film of 1985 delivered a sequel. Back to the Future II saw Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) go to the year 2015 then back again to 1955 in a tale full of time traveling twists and turns.

For the movies and culture desk at Ultimate Classic Rock, I revisited the film, looking how there wasn’t a sequel envisioned at first, the lack of a hit song to go with the movie and the controversial replacements of key cast-members from the first entry into the saga.