I was checking the plot for leaks but it seems Bob Gale & Robert Zemeckis managed to connect all the threads together as soundly and securely as Doc Brown connected that power cable in time for the 1.1GW lightning bolt to strike. This results in simply excellent storytelling (no doubt aided by its long period in gestation as the script was rejected forty times for "not being raunchy enough for 1985") and Alan Silvestri's music was also typically great.
On to the next instalment. Gale and Zemeckis later said they threw the final scene in
I in as a joke as they never expected to write a sequel and if they'd known it'd be a massive hit they wouldn't've had Jennifer get in the car at the end as they had no idea what to do with her and she spent a large portion of this movie knocked out by Doc's sleeping ray.
I surmised that her actress Claudia Wells's replacement by TV's Madelyn Stillwell (aka Chris Parker to audiences of that time period) is another side-effect of the space-time continuum resetting itself but now I've found out Claudia had to leave because her mom was sick I felt like a heel. Now, if I remember correctly this is the part with more brains but slightly less heart (while
III has a lotta heart but isn't as cerebral).
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