Video Librarian Reviews : Video Librarian Reviews Granted, it's just common marketing sense to package all three Back to the Future films in one boxed set, but that doesn't do the vastly superior first film any favors. The 1985 original is an irresistible primal fantasy in which '80s teen Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox in his signature screen role) travels back in time and interacts with the two teenagers who will become his parents. While the disappointing sequel is, to quote Marty, too "heavy," the third film regains a bit of the original charm as Marty travels back to the Old West, and Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd, this franchise's most valuable player) finds the love of his life with the ideally cast Mary Steenburgen as schoolteacher Clara Clayton. Among the set's numerous extra features are rote audio commentaries by writer Bob Gale and producer Neil Canton on all three films, more enlightening and entertaining live Q&A sessions with Gale and director Robert Zemeckis, the requisite production segments, deleted scenes and outtakes, and BTTF trivia that viewers can access while watching the films. Due to the second and third discs having some mis-framed shots in the original boxed set that were later corrected, those who have waited are more likely now to receive a set with the proper framing. Recommended. (K. Lee Benson Copyright Video Librarian Reviews 2003.
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