Greatest Trilogies: #3 Back to the Future

The child in me wants to place this at the #1 position and I nearly did. There is hardly any movie around these days that I have enjoyed more than the Back to the Future series. And here’s why.
BTTF was, and still is, one of the most cleverly written works of blockbuster entertainment ever made. The other 4 movies on this list are mostly works of extreme fantasy – even though they may have realistic characters, their stories were so… what’s the word… “far away.” BTTF on the other hand, was about a typical teenager, with typical problems, and a typical life who just gets wrapped up in a quirky sense of fate. And how wrapped up!
Every installment of this trilogy is so intertwined with the other that they just can’t stand alone – that’s what a trilogy is all about. With rollicking humour, convoluted science, and once again I repeat, the most intelligently written screenplays in movie history (a salute here to Bob Gale), BTTF is one of those movies you never get tired of. Though I was too young to watch this trilogy in the cinema (I was born in 1985 J), I have watched these movies so many times over on tape and later on DVD and love it each time. It’s also got what I feel is one of the best endings ever – in BTTF II when Marty meets Doc after having just been sent back into the present. A cliffhanger ending or what?!
There is also one other aspect where BTTF beats the other 4 on this list hollow – its great soundtrack. Yes, I know the others have even more famous, triumphant theme tunes, but BTTF had actual songs that the others cant claim – my favourite love ballad “Earth Angel”, “Back in Time”, and of course, Marty’s rendition of “Johnny B. Goode”.
I so wish I could go back to 1985… just one more time.