Would you believe audiences booed this movie when it came out? It is true, let me tell you why.
While BTTF has now gone down in history as one of the best "trilogies" of all time, at the time when part TWO came out, the fact they had also shot part THREE at the same time had been kept a complete secret.
Most of you who read this may not have been alive at the time, so you have to imagine that after "Back to the Future" was a literal sensation when it came out, people were pretty skeptical about a sequel coming out four years after the first could be nearly as good as the original. I only went to see it opening weekend with friends because we'd actually gone to see the first one when it came out in 1985 and had decided to go judge the sequel under the same circumstances.
Overall, the audience had a great time that night watching the movie; that is, until the last few moments. To reiterate, no one knew that Back to the Future part TWO was going to be the middle chapter of a TRILOGY. Despite how positive the audience reaction had been throughout the rest of the movie, as soon as the words, "To Be Continued..." appeared on the screen, the audience turned and started booing! I swear it is true! My friends and I were caught up as well, we booed along with everyone else and walked out bitching about feeling cheated.
In conclusion, despite being the best of three movies, at the time, audiences BOOED this movie the opening weekend because movies rarely IF EVER had "TO BE CONTINUED..." at the end of them! The cultural grudge during the time between the release of TWO and THREE has lost to history after the trilogy as whole became accepted.
Review by drqshadowBlockedParent2020-02-06T19:15:58Z
When it debuted in the winter of 1989, this sequel's wide-eyed portrait of the future was so ambitious and dramatic that it was tough to look beyond the superficial. Today, a mere four years removed from the distant year 2015 depicted on the screen, those predictions seem more like a creative writing essay from the science fiction magazines of the 1950s. They remain endearing and entertaining, albeit in a different way - the jokes still work, but their more serious elements either don't play or, worse, come off as pure camp. And, with the shiny veneer of that potential future relegated to nothing more than a running series of sight gags, the holes and flaws of the plot itself find themselves stripped bare.
It comes as something of a shock to me, given my fond memories, but this really is not a good film. What screen time the cast doesn't spend breathlessly explaining the plot (which is, perhaps, fifty percent of the runtime) is devoted to revisiting several of the best scenes from the first movie, rather than creating fond memories of their own. It's an overly elaborate story, unashamedly building to the split-narrative climax, that has neither the steady pace nor the genuine charm of the original. Plot holes the size of a steam engine are the least of its concerns, given that the first film managed to be such a success in spite of similar problems.