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The least-favourite of my BTTF films, Bobson's small addition of the marshal-killing scene is nonetheless revelatory in that it shows me that, while the stakes are even more life-and-death here than in the two preceeding films (albeit less cosmic paradoxy), the tone is way too light, as if over-correcting from the bleakness of Part II. A bit more of Mad Dog Tannen's actual menace on-screen might have gone a long way to fixing that problem.

Regardless, I appreciate Bobson tacitly acknowledging that this is a slight edit (along with a couple of continuity tweaks) by including a charming TV-safe alternate audio track. Given that this is how I watched BTTF 3 for years, it's an unexpected extra bit of nostalgia. (Now if it just had some Chicken Tonight and 1-800-Collect commercials spliced in, it might feel even more like literal time travel...)