Back to the Future Part II Back to the Future Part II Back to the Future Part II is a 1989 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Bob Gale. It is the sequel to the 1985 film "Back to the Future" and the second installment in the "Back to the Future" trilogy. The film stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Thomas F. Wilson, and Lea Thompson. In the plot, Marty McFly (Fox) and his friend Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown (Lloyd) travel to 2015, where bully Biff Tannen (Wilson) steals Doc's DeLorean time machine and uses it to alter history for the
Back to the Future Part II first film's gross. "Part III", which Universal released only six months later, experienced a similar drop. , the film received a 64% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 59 reviews with an average rating of 6.2/10, with the critical consensus reading, ""Back to the Future II" is far more uneven than its predecessor, but its madcap highs outweigh the occasionally cluttered machinations of an overstuffed plot". The film has a score of 57 out of 100 on Metacritic, based on 17 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" gave the film three out of