Back to the Future Part II managed to copy the original Back to the Future without feeling like a retread, and there are a few reasons that the sequel was capable of pulling off this seemingly impossible trick. Back to the Future Part II succeeded because the sequel was one of the few movies to take the old Hollywood adage about sequels offering “the same thing, but different,” seriously.
This is important since Back to the Future Part II’s future-set story could have come across as a time-filling exercise designed to get the characters back to 1955. Instead, for the first act, it seems as if the sequel has no intention of revisiting the original Back to the Future. it is only when viewers are already invested in the fate of Marty McFly’s offspring that the alternate timeline is introduced and the sequel’s plot starts in earnest.
3 Back to the Future Mocked The Original Movie As if to further prove that Back to the Future Part II didn’t rely entirely on nostalgia for its predecessor, the sequel instead opted to mock the complicated story and occasional plot holes of the original Back to the Future.
It takes talented writers, directors and showrunners who are creative, think for themselves and put the storytelling first and nothing else. Sadly today all we have are lazy hacks who don't care at all about telling a good story and prioritize everything according to Twitter.
Hollywood has lost the ability to tell good stories. They let go of their most skillful craftsmen. 90% of things that come out SUCK where you have to filter searches by 80s & 90s content… humanity did not know it had reached the pinnacle of production quality, 2000’s were ok too