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    Back to the Future
    Reviewed by Erin Rapoport

    "I'm Darth Vader from planet Vulcan," says Marty McFly, dressed up in a spacesuit. Then he tells his friend George to ask Lorraine Baines to the Enchantment Under the Sea dance--or he'll come back to fry George's brains.

    I saw Back to the Future yesterday. It was a great movie! It's very exciting, funny, and interesting. If you haven't seen it, I strongly urge you to see this great movie.

    Michael J. Fox, playing the lead role of Marty McFly, had to be funny, daring, and ready for anything! Marty is a good friend of the "starting to get mad" scientist Dr. Brown (Christopher Lloyd) . Dr. Brown builds a strange time- traveling car and accidentally sends Marty into the past. Robert Zemeckis directed Back to the Future and (for once) directed it creatively. This movie is mostly based on Marty, his family, and time traveling.

    In Back to the Future, Marty is a high school boy who time travels from 1985 to 1955. He meets his parents in 1955, who are at the time teenagers. His mom falls in love with Marty instead of his father, George, and his time machine needs more plutonium to get him back to the future. He's messed things up so much, what can he do?

    The scene where Marty gets sent back in time is scarey. "Boom, boom, boom!!!" goes the automatic rifle. Libyan terrorists (there has to be a bad guy in the movie and they are Dr. Brown's enemies) shoot Dr. Brown and now they're aiming for Marty! He jumps into the time machine to escape--and he accidentally escapes into the past.

    The music, sound effects, and the exciting plot go beyond the human imagination. In other words Bob Gale (the writer) and Robert Zemeckis are miracles. Zemeckis hasn't always been one though; a lot of the movies he's directed haven't succeeded.

    I really enjoyed Back to the Future. It doesn't matter if you're a child or adult this movie is liked by all. I have only seen this movie on a television screen, but like all movies, it would probably be better on a huge screen in a movie theater.