On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 66% based on 61 reviews, with an average rating of 6.17/10. The website's critics consensus reads: ""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." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 57 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale.