Back to the Future: Part II - More Roads Edition

Much like the first movie, I always wanted to see a extended cut of Back To The Future Part 2.

I like how we get to see Old Biff arguing with Terry, Marty talking to his brother Dave, who became a drunken bum, more of Marty's family, Hill Valley High School being burned down, and Old Biff being erased from existence, which explains why he's in pain.

Pretty good fan edit.

I think my take on the Back to the Future franchise is well aligned with the general public. The first movie is one of my all-time favorites. It's feel-good entertainment at its finest. Part II is half as good as the first one, I'm sorry to say. And Part III even less than that. I don't want to say the sequels are bad. But I've always seen them as inferior and in need of improvement. So, being a fan of Bobson's extended cuts of most things, I was curious to see if this version of Part II could fix some of my "issues" with the film.

Overall, I can't say this was a gigantic improvement, but it is a small improvement. Pretty much all that's new here occurs within the first 45-50 minutes. I liked the extra comic relief bits, as they do address my biggest problem with Part II, however slightly. It's nice to see the demolished Hill Valley High School deleted scene with audio restored, especially since my blu-ray only has an audio-free version of this scene.

With that said though, this edit is only 4 minutes longer than its original theatrical counterpart, so there really isn't a whole lot that's changed. Still, I like enough of what's new here to recommend this one. Don't expect this to suddenly be as memorable as Part I, but at least this edit is a step in the right direction.

Bobson, you did it again! as I said, I watched the first one, like it, and the second one, it was awesome, great job bring it back again, I'll say this again, for the people who don't want to watch the fanedit, watch the theatrical one, BUT! for the people who like the Fanedit, I recommend watch this edit, it looks better.

Once again, Bobson has made an original cut of BTTF obsolete, going above and beyond to assemble shots of alternate '85 from disparate sources to further build the dark world that Marty, Doc and Einstein find themselves dropped into. Watching an extended sequence with Marty's brother Dave (fallen from the yuppie heights we last saw him in) is delightful for entirely the wrong reasons, and seeing Hill Valley High as a bombed-out ruin is just icing on the cake.

I'm not sure the world needed more of the beyond-nightmarish Future McFly household with lots of clones of Michael J Fox running around, but it's still nice to have it in there, in its complete version. In all, the movie that predicted vaporwave *and* Avengers Endgame has gotten the edition its fans deserve, and I'm glad for it.

One small complaint: I've always hated HATED the "Part III preview" at the end, which completely dispenses with the tragic and ingenious cliffhanger Part II ends on (imagine Empire Strikes Back ending with a look forward at Ewoks and Boba Fett falling in a hole, and you'll see what I mean), and I was hoping that this edition would do away with it. Alas, not.