Back to the Future Part II (1989)

Yes. 91% of real audiences liked it based on 13,741 votes. Critics scored it lower at 60%, but audiences disagreed.

Marty and Doc are at it again as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen and a pesky sports almanac. In a last-ditch attempt to set things straight, Marty finds himself bound for 1955 and face to face with his teenage parents -- again. Wikipedia ↗

Back to the Future Part II is a 1989 American science fiction comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, the sequel to his 1985 classic. The film sends Marty McFly and Doc Brown from 1985 to the year 2015, where they must prevent Marty's future son from making a catastrophic mistake. When the villainous Biff Tannen steals the DeLorean time machine and alters history by giving his younger self a sports almanac from the future, Marty and Doc must travel to an alternate dystopian 1985 and then back to 1955 — overlapping with the events of the first film — to restore the timeline.

Back to the Future Part II was remarkably ambitious in its narrative complexity, weaving multiple timelines together while requiring the audience to track parallel events occurring simultaneously in different eras. The film's vision of 2015 — featuring flying cars, hoverboards, self-lacing sneakers, and holographic movie advertisements — became one of the most referenced and affectionately mocked predictions of the future in pop culture, with real-world 2015 celebrations noting which predictions came true (video calls, wearable technology) and which remained science fiction (flying cars). The hoverboard chase sequence through Hill Valley's town square became one of the most iconic action sequences of the franchise.

Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale's screenplay performed the remarkable trick of making the events of the first film more suspenseful by showing them from a different perspective. The film was shot simultaneously with Part III, an ambitious production strategy that allowed for a continuous story. Back to the Future Part II earned $332 million worldwide.