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At Fox's urging, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale have turned their attention to a Western trilogy and are revving up the DeLorean while it's still hot. Clint Eastwood’s reputation is saved, Biff's generation gets another thrashing, and the descendant of rocket engineer von Braun even brushes his hair for the sake of love. It's no wonder, since his calves could heat up a locomotive’s boiler more than special anthracite fuel! I enjoy hunting for Silvestri's dark tones akin to Predator and the nuances of causality, even though I understand them about as well as Marty McFly does... “She's not gonna understand that, Doc. Hell, I'm in it with you, and even I don't understand it.” (03.07.2023)

Nachdem ich die gesamte Trilogie von Zemeckis gesehen habe, kann ich sagen, dass ich alle Teile von vergleichbarer Qualität fand und jeder von ihnen mich auf irgendeine Weise überzeugen konnte. Nach dem Durchbruch von Teil eins und der zeitlichen Schichtung in Teil zwei folgte der dritte Teil, der fast vollständig im Wilden Westen des Jahres 1885 spielt, mich aber dennoch genauso gut unterhalten und fesseln konnte wie seine beiden Vorgänger, die etwas mehr mit Zeitebenen spielten. Auch hier lobe ich den Stil der Kunst des späten 19. Jahrhunderts und die vielen humorvollen Anspielungen (Eastwood, Frisbee). Der finale "Kampf um die Zeit mit dem Zug" war in der Tat spannend und für die damalige Zeit unglaublich gut gefilmt. Obwohl ich die Trilogie erst vor kurzem kennen gelernt habe und ihr Kultstatus etwas an mir vorbeigegangen ist, wurde ich während des Abspanns leicht nostalgisch, da ich wusste, dass dies das letzte "Abenteuer von Marty und dem verrückten Doktor" war. (02.08.2021)

I'm ignoring the comments in the reviews about this being the weakest part of the series, because I have always considered the Back to the Future series as one cohesive story. It's hard to believe that Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale didn't originally plan for a trilogy and initially left the open ending of the first film only as a space for the audience's imagination, because other screenwriters struggle their entire careers to come up with as many ideas and plot points as they put into these three movies. (01.05.2006)

Probably the best and cleanest of the whole series. The transfer to the Wild West and the slight calming down of the pace only benefited the film. Finally, it's not such a crazy, nonsensical farce, but quality sci-fi full of twists, precarious situations, plenty of solid humor and a huge dose of irony. Technically, it is certainly the most skillful part, which we, of course, owe to the year of its creation. Even so, this series is rather a suffering for me, mainly because of excessive fragmentation and inconsistency within the genre. Intentional? I understand, but not my cup of tea. (06.09.2012)

"If you don't come out in ten seconds, everyone will know that Clint Eastwood is the most cowardly piece of shit in the entire West!" It really isn't usual for third installments, especially third installments that are filmed concurrently with the previous installment, to have any major character development of established characters. Yet this happened with the third installment of Back to the Future, and my suspicion is that it was done in order to create some new framework for the story, where the tropes already used in the previous episodes would not be repeated over and over again. You can tell then how Spielberg and Zemeckis thought of the characters as action figures on a road carpet, and sometimes they just had to get a character out of it. I think I like the third installment the best. It's the most compact, the most far-reaching in terms of execution and gimmickry, and the instrumental country version of Doubleback by ZZ Top is a terrible blast. Except that Doc in his western clothes looks unduly creepy to me, because he looks like a combination of Klaus Kinski from Fitzcarraldo and my cobbler. And the fact that the gravedigger wasn't a Tim Curry cameo took a bit of wind out of me, too. (31.05.2021)

Today's throwback brought me a decent dose of entertainment, which was not entirely expected, as American creators have shown me several times that transporting characters into the Wild West does not always result in success and comedic elements often turn into awkwardness. The third visit to the past/past present/past future managed to avoid these pitfalls, and although it didn't reach the quality of the first installment for me, it amused me more than the second one. Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd complemented each other brilliantly once again, the rest of the cast didn't spoil it for them too much, and I didn't even notice the almost two-hour running time. So yes, I enjoyed it. / Lesson learned: Thoroughly go through Clint Eastwood's movies again, it might save your life sometime in the past or in the future. 4*+ (26.06.2023)

I finally got to this third installment, which I was quite apprehensive about. I think rightfully so because I just don't feel comedies belong in the Wild West. It's still Back to the Future, with the same actors, but it's not as much fun anymore. It feels like they're pushing it too hard, and Zemeckis is showing off with his beloved special effects, which look good for that time, but I won't jump through the ceiling for them. I'm actually glad the series ended with this installment. (13.02.2014)