Back To The Future Movies in Order
Quite simply, if you haven’t seen the Back To The Future trilogy yet, what are you doing with your life?
Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the time-travelling trilogy is undoubtedly one of the best movie franchises of all time. It has got a killer cast, fantastic visuals, and an electrifying storyline — and we aren’t just talking about the DeLorean.
With a little help from the flux capacitor, the sprawling storyline takes us all over the shop, ranging from 1985, to 1955, and even 1885. In turn, that makes the Back to the Future trilogy’s overall timeline and chronology a little complicated, to say the least.
But don’t panic — sit down and take a breath. We’ve arranged the trilogy in order for you and signposted what streaming services you can find them on, so all you need to worry about is what shenanigans Marty and Doc will find themselves in next.
For me, Back To The Future was effectively my entry into the world of science fiction — and I couldn’t recommend it more heartily if I tried.
The first film begins in 1985, where “slacker” Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) ends up taking the eccentric Doc Emmett Brown’s (Christopher Lloyd) DeLorean car time machine for an inadvertent spin: ending up in 1955. After a bit of Freudian confusion and a run-in with his teenage mother, he is left with a mission: try to get his parents to fall in love, avoid disappearing forever, and get back to the future. Like, literally.
This highly original twist on the fish-out-of-water trope makes way for all kinds of colorful hijinks, ensuring that you’re always on the edge of your seat. No matter how many times I see it, a part of me always wonders if Marty really will make it back this time.
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The sequel takes place after the first film’s cliffhanger, during which Doc tells Marty that he and girlfriend Jennifer have to go “back to the future” to stop a chain of events that effectively plunges their family into ruin.
This time around, the motley crew travels to 2015. With its flying cars and hoverboards, seeing filmmakers’ perspective of what 2015 might look like is thoroughly entertaining, albeit a bit disappointing when we compare it to reality.
The spirited performances that made the first movie so great also continue to shine through, as Biff (Thomas F. Wilson) continues to prove why he is one of the best movie villains of all time. As far as sequels go, Back To The Future Part II is among the cream of the crop, and at its finale, offers the perfect gateway into the final part of the trilogy.
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I’ll be honest — Back To The Future Part III is probably my least favourite of the bunch, but it’s still a highly enjoyable love letter to Westerns that would make Taylor Sheridan want to curl up and cry.
This time around, Marty sets out to rescue Doc from 1885 after his gravestone reveals that he is murdered by Buford ‘Mad Dog’ Tannen — Biff’s great grandfather. Things then grow complicated when Doc falls in love with local schoolteacher Clara Clayton (Mary Steenburgen).
While it has an entirely different setting, the charm and wit that makes Back To The Future special is still present in this film, and ultimately, it rounds off the trilogy quite nicely.
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