­You can’t have a “Back to the Future” movie without a Tannen crashing into manure. In “Part III” it’s “Mad Dog” Tannen, ancestor of 1955/1985/2015 pest Biff Tannen.

Back To The Future Part III is the film where Marty and the Doc effectively swap roles. Where the love story with Clara allows Doc to be the love-struck teen, and Marty assumes the more paternal role.

By taking us back to the early days of Hill Valley, Back to the Future Part III creates a fuller sense of the town’s history, one that goes back to Marty’s great-grandfather, Seamus (also ...

Despite that thematic bump, Back to the Future Part III is a Swiss watch of a script. A seamless piece of plotting whose structure clicks into place like safe tumblers, as it pays off five years ...

Originally mixed for four channels, Back to the Future Part III has for many years ported the exact same, reasonably robust 5.1 audio mix for all previous DVD and Blu-ray releases.

Back to the Future Part II and Part III were also written by Gale and Zemeckis and directed by Zemeckis. In Part II, Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel from 1985 to 2015 to stop Martys son from ...

If anything, Back to the Future Part II perfectly sets up the payoff of the series’ last part despite being a relatively self-contained story. That’s no fluke, they were designed that way.

With Back To The Future Part III, it’s a bear in a cave (or, for certain shots, an actor in a bear suit) that solves a story hole that the writers soon find themselves in.