Jennifer was recast because Claudia Wells was caring for her dying mother.

The reason we didn't get everything predicted in 2015 is because most of the technology was lost in the big explosion at Cyberdyne Systems, setting us back decades.

4:15 "This is sad. Instead of flying cars we have tiktok." 🤣

I notice when reactors watch the sequel so quickly after the original they understandably get quite distracted by Jennifer being recast with a different actress. When the movies came out they were four years apart, plus people saw the trailer and may have read about it in a newspaper or magazine. It was originally much less distracting.

3:18 We actually have these exact shoes. They’re called Air Mags. You can get the auto-adjusting laces if you have an extra $20k

This movie had the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series in 2015. They actually won in 2016. It’s a significant mention because the Cubs were always a bad luck team and was known as a losing team every season and some believed a curse was put on the team.

12:50 "Last Time Departed: Nov 12, 1955" -- Had they paid attention and noticed this, they would know that someone 'borrowed' the time machine.

All the 2015 "future" stuff is cute. But I really like the 1955 part of this movie, especially the playing around with the scenes from the first movie. It's really fun.

I always loved how righteous Doc was about using time travel for financial gains. But he carries around an entire briefcase full of money from various different time periods. Can't help but think there's a story there..

24:35 Oooh, that explains a lot.😂 Love the reactions, Amanda; I hope 2024 is a great year for you!😊

32:47 Back to the Future has plenty of heart. One of the greatest trilogies ever, together with OT Star Wars and LotR. Gracias and hope we get the third one soon (Tom Wilson is amazing in it and the unsung hero of the franchise) 👊😊

They did the 3rd one at the same time of the 2nd one because since they were going through time they needed to ensure Marty still looked young enough to be believable to certain time lines.

Hi Amanda!😊 The flying cars in 2015 was basically a joke. The ending of the first film was also a joke. They didn't plan a sequel at that point. But, since they were stuck with that ending, they had to figure a way to get rid of the Jennifer character, and keep Doc and Marty as the main characters. The actor that played George did not act in this film. They used scenes from the first film to show him. The future version of George is another actor upside down in makeup. They did shoot this film and the 3rd film back to back. Great reactions to the 2nd film, Amanda!!!!🎬👏👏👏👏Looking forward to your reaction for the third film!😊

Zemeckis and his team had no intention of portraying the future accurately. In the first place, the ending of the first film had just been a joke - there were no plans for a second film but then the incredible success of the first one had the studio all but demanding a second film so now their little ending joke dictated where the sequel would have to start. And secondly, Zemeckis recognized that the future they'd be portraying was so near that we'd be reaching it in reality very soon. Having already "predicted" flying cars, they decided to have fun with it and just go for cartoonishly unrealistic predictions instead of accuracy.

1. It's not often sequels hold up to the original, but this does. Thank you 1980s. 2.This one is the best of the bunch. The next one is inventive but I'm not really into the story. That said, it is the perfect wrap. 3. The stunt woman that flew into the glass window partially missed and injured her arm. 4. Michael J. Fox also played Marty's daughter. 5. Sammy Hagar, "I can't drive 55"😎 6. Good thing Biff shoots like a Star Wars Stormtrooper🤣 7. The tunnel at the end is the same one they used for Tune Town in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Scriptwriter Bob Gale acknowledged that it was a big problem to have Jennifer come with Marty and Doc to 2015. But he actually didn't plan for a sequel when he wrote the first movie. The ending with the DeLorean taking off and flying was only meant to be a funny gag. But after the movie became the biggest hit of the year, the studio pushed for a sequel. Gale said that if he had known from the beginning that he was going to make a sequel, he would not have put Jennifer in the DeLorean because her presence created big problems for him when he started writing the script for Part 2. It's why she spends most of the movie either asleep or passed out off-screen. He had to find a way to write her out of the plot so the focus could be on Marty and Doc.

The 2015 in this film was not meant to predict anything. It was meant to be funny. I think it succeeds in that. 😉 Also, "We don't have flying cars; we have TikTok," is the funniest thing I've heard today.

This is awesome! I just watched your reaction to part one earlier today and now you’ve already got part two ready to go! 👍🏻

There wasn’t a baseball team in Miami when this movie came out so Marty was surprised to hear about them. But one came a few years after this!

14:55-14:59 is pure gold in clocked utter confusion. I feel this is you in most vids and me in most of life. Gold, Jerry. Gold!

When it was decided to make a sequel, a third movie was also decided. Thus, shortly after the second one ended production, the third one began. And that is why we see a trailer for the third movie at the end of the second one.

Happy new year Amanda🎉 your doing a great job. Keep it up.

Actor Billy Zane has an expanded role in this sequel. He portrays Match from Biffs gang in the 50's as well as in the 1985 alternate universe aka timeline he's wearing a cowboy hat and is apart of Biffs gang once again! Most people don't know he appears in two time lines in the sequel. Michael J. Fox portrays Marlene McFly in the 2015 timeline. The daughter of Marty and Jennifer McFly. 🤠👍🍕🙋

4:20 - 4:23 The skip-talking heads on TV are a reference to an 80's scifi show called "Max Headroom". It was a big thing for awhile back then.

2:16 They didn't think we'd be that advanced; not really. For starters, the writers didn't actually plan on making a sequel, until the studio pressed for one. They've even said if they had known there would be more movies, they never would have put Jennifer in the car; which is why they ditched her so quickly. Second, when going into writing part II they knew that they had established that Doc had gone forward to 2015, which would be the most likely point in time they'd go to in the sequel. But the writers also knew that most other shows and movies that tried to depict the future always got it wrong; and something would end up looking dated almost immediately. So they decided to intentionally depict the most far out, waky parody of the future they could think of; extrapolating the most ridiculous historical trends and things that were becoming popular at the time. So everyone has a fax in every room. Kids have ridiculous fashions. Adults have stupid fashions, like the two ties. Inflation is over the top, where Marty need $50 to buy a Pepsi; and instead of the person asking to donate 50 cents or a dollar towards the clocktower preservation it's, "thumb a hundred bucks" A great sight gag is all the laser discs being tossed out, because in the 80s everyone thought laser disc would be the next big media fad for video; and it never caught on, before ultimately being replaced with CDs and DVD. The stuff with biometrics and thumb scans being used for ID and financial transactions. They got the video conferencing right, if albeit a few years early than it really caught fire. It had a little bit of popularity prior to lockdown, but video teleconferencing has been right around the corner for decades; but we're talking about going back to a time of CRT displays and, at best, telephone/dial-up connections, with low-resolution video as the standard. Even 8+ years ago, the technology was there and better than it ever was, but still not quite so far as it needed to be to really be practical for widespread use.

*George McFly* was also replaced not just *Jennifer.* It comes to the flying cars try to imagine 30 years from now the *2050's.*

They filmed parts 2 & 3 back to back, and released them 6 months apart.

1 - I LOVE this movie because I just love how they subvert expectations. You think they're going to the future, and "fixing" Marty's future is going to be the point of the movie, but like 15 mins in it's fixed. Instead they go back to '55 and weave the story of 2 in and around 1. Brilliant. 2 - It's amazing how many people remark on how BttF 2 failed to predict the future. It's a movie, they weren't trying to predict the future, they were making a fun movie. 3 - Biff was based on donald trump. Because in the '80s and '90s, everybody knew he was a villain - the most obvious, stereotypical villain - and many movies actually made their villains thinly-veiled references to him (Time Cop, Super Mario Bros, BttF). Not to get political...

I'm really glad you're enjoying the Back to the Future series! I was too young to watch them when they came out, so I only saw them a few years later when they were on TV, but I loved them and watched them every chance I got! Part 3 is a little different, but I'm sure you'll enjoy it just as much despite (or possibly because of) those differences.

Great reaction Amanda like always, this one is amazing this might be my favorite trilogy of all time so I love seeing how much you love it! I can't WAIT for you to see Part III. There are some fun facts about this one. This movie was filmed back-to-back with Part III. If you notice they replaced the actress who played Jennifer Parker, Claudia Wells in the original Back to the future, but had to pull out of appearing in Part II after her mother was diagnosed with cancer. Elizabeth Shue was cast in the role instead and even re-shot the final scene of the first film, so it could be ‘replayed’ at the beginning of the second. This was Elijah Wood in his very first film role, Wood’s role, as an awed child by the arcade cabinet playing that game with pistols, Crispin Glover who portrais Mcfly Sr in the first one did not apper on this one. According to Glover, he discovered that he was offered far less to reprise his role in any given sequel than Lea Thompson for a similarly sized role, Glover’s agents demanded a higher fee and script approval, and Bob Gale responded by offering even less money than before. As a result, Glover pulled out of the sequel as was replaced by Jeffrey Weissman in heavy prosthetics. This is partly why George McFly is almost always shot in the dark, from behind, or upside-down. One of the more memorable gags about the future occurs when Marty is assailed by a holographic shark outside the cinema (or ‘Holomax’). The Jaws films, in spite of the critically panned Jaws 3-D and Jaws 4, are still going strong in the fictional 2015, marking the nineteenth entry in the franchise. Jaws 19 is directed by Max Spielberg, son of the legendary director. Max was born in June 1985, the ‘present’ era of the trilogy. Actors playing themselves is nothing new - and it wasn’t new in 1989, either. However, this was mostly achieved with clever camerawork and body doubles. Back to the Future Part II broke the mould by using a VFX trick that allowed the same actor to feature twice in the same frame: the ‘Vista Glide.’ As usual, necessity is the mother of invention. Given the number of times characters interact with their past selves, or alternate future selves, or narrowly avoid continuum-obliterating paradoxes, exactly this technique was needed. There are a genuine stunt injury in this film in the hoverboard chase. Due to a technical difficulty with the wires suspending the actors, Cheryl Wheeler-Duncan - the stunt double for Darlene Vogel’s Spike veers off-course and slams into the concrete pillar next to the glass. Ouch! She then falls 30 feet on to the concrete below. Evidently Zemeckis saw a silver lining in this on-set mishap, as that take is the one we see in the film. Keep up the good work.

Wow, that was fast. They brought Jen because the ending was already made and they didn't plan on a sequel. This makes the recreations of the first films scenes even more impressive.

0:59 "Is That The Same Girl?" No, that's not Claudia Wells, who played Jennifer in the first "Back To The Future" movie. That's actually Elizabeth Shue in the role of Jennifer, because Claudia Wells' mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and Claudia opted to take of her, thus the reason why Elizabeth Shue was cast as Jennifer

I recall the Cubs actually won the World Series around 2015, (update: actually, it was 2016)

Well you caught on quick, they actually modeled Biff's character in this one after Trump in the 80s lol

Happy New Year Amanda! You have a great sense of humor, and it's always fun to watch your reactions.

I remember being a kid and being really excited about part III coming out in the theater. Also, remember being a little disappointed. BUT the Back2theFuture ride at MGM studios was fantastic.

It's always funny to see someone's vision of the future from the past. Flying cars seemed to be a common idea. It's quite far from reality, but if you look back at a certain point, they went from having a relatively primitive lifestyle, to having cars, and planes, and nuclear energy, and computers, and lasers, and television all in the time of an average lifespan. I'm sure when they envisioned the future, they thought the momentum wouldn't stop. Why wouldn't there be flying cars and hoverboards?

OMG CANT WAIT FOR U TO WATCH PT 3

But is it so strange that they have that picture of 2015... just think how much technology has advanced since 1900 to 2000. In just one hundred years

The Back to the Future trilogy is so well-connected it really could be one long movie.

the 2015 bit always makes me nostalgic from89 onwards i wanted 2015 to be like that, but when it happened and we went past it

There was originally no plan for a sequel, so the ending was just in fun. Had the success of the first movie been predicted, Jennifer would have been left in 1985. As it was, they had to create a small storyline for her, in order to make her coming along make sense.

The actress that played Jennifer in part one had a conflict with scheduling because of another film she was working on. That is why she was replaced for parts two and three. Parts two and three were filmed at the same time.

Hahaha my girl, i'd steal the almaniac too. Just realized you seem more confident in your English. Good job as usual, your my fav reactor.

Someone changed the future, that's why there are no flying cars from 2015! 😆

Doc went back to January 1st 1885 as a result of the time circuits malfunctioning and the lightning strike was only the final blow.

Hope you are still having fun watching and then editing these for us! I appreciate it at least...

You are so like-able, loved watching your expressions as the movies unfolded, this is my favorite of the three since I just happened to stumble upon the filming of the Mr. Strickland shotgun porch when I was coming home from my nightshift job and noticed really bright lights 3 blocks from my apartment. I walked over to see what happening and was thrilled when I found out they were filming the sequel , now when I see that scene, I can imagine my younger self there watching in awe and getting a sneak peek of things to come. Keep it up you're doing great.

The actor that played Biff was told to act like he is Donald Trump in this. :)

Happy New Year to you too Amanda 🥂

You are so amazing thank you for watching

I remember as a kid watching this when it first came out. I thought the ending, when Marty comes sprinting behind doc, was the coolest thing.

AMANDA: "What if they just...kill him?!..." ME: " HA HA HAAAAA!!!! ...ooohhh, poor little girl!...ha haaa!!

I've seen a lot of predictions of how it will be around 30 years in the future, and there are two things that are almost always there. As far back as the 1920s or 1930s the predictions usually are that we have flying cars and cities on the moon. Crazy, right? And the saddest part is that we have had the technology to make it work since the 60s. Sure, the flying cars would be a nightmare to manage if everyone has one but the fuel costs would probably make it quite exclusive, and the moon colony would take an insane amount of work and resources.

Elizabeth shoe was huge in the 80s then she became a nurse then she went and saw a play and started acting again she's the executive woman in the boys

Blade Runner also predicted flying cars in 2019, sadly we only have prototypes of those and not mass produced yet.

I didn't get my first flying car until 2018. :( The weird robotic celebrity images on TV were an homage to Max Headroom (1985).

Awesome reaction of my favorite Back To The Future movie!!!!!😊😊😊😊

Part 2 and 3 were filmed at the same time they just put a trailer for part 3 at the end of part too it was over a year before part 3 came out

This trilogy is pure joy. So glad you're watching it.

You don't have to be a millennial to feel this film has more heart ❤️ then some other new movies. Almost every reactor says the same thing. It has been voted the best trilogy ever made! Much love to you and Ukraine 💙💛💙🌻🌻🌻

This one of those rare trilogies where all 3 movies are good. Thanks.

Nice reaction....youll love the finale cant wait for you to watch that

You call them connections but other people call them Easter eggs are littered throughout these movies connecting one another

This is by far the bestest in trilogy. Lots more entertaining than bookending films.

Part of the joke with all the super futuristic stuff is that it's a callback to 1950s science fiction. Early SF was basically fantasy in space. Kids in robot suits defending the moon base from aliens in the 1980s. Flying cars, universal digital money & ID, instant food, all this was common in old SF. With the BTTF series so invested in the year 1955, they're just showing a 1950s/60s idea of the future. It highlights one of the fundamental themes of the films that life is cyclical. @15:25 "I stiff can't believe he's named Biff." -- Biff was originally a nickname; it's an old English word for "a fast punch". It started becoming more common as a given name around 1900. Pretty uncommon today.

Watched those movies a million times and never realized it's the same girl. 😅

The second and third movies were filmed back to back.

You guessed correctly at whom alt-continuity Biff is based on. And given how things are shaping up...yeah this movie was right on the money there.

Yes, that was Elijah Wood a/k/a Frodo. You should watch and review the Mel Gibson movie "Forever Young" (1992), which was kind of a breakout role for Wood. He was about 10 at the time. After that movie, he started appearing in everything, including Super Bowl ads.

It's a fun movie State surface level if you try to dig you miss the jokes about the weather service & lawyers. You'll be focusing on little inconsistencies

2015 owes by brother a real hoverboard.

18:50 Where is the Marty of this timeline? My theory is that Marty routinely runs away from his Switzerland boarding school and sneaks to Doc's hideaway. Doc Brown has escaped from the insane asylum, or maybe has had his committal order overturned as he's not a danger to himself or others. So this is Marty, and the time ripple hasn't caught up with him. 30:00 "Burn it!" Notice that the newspapers don't change until he burns the almanac. As long as it exists, *someone* is going to devastate the world.

speaking to a trilogy connecting, Star wars 4-5-6 is another great one

@27:41...when you accidentally hit your own head and near knock yourself out

Ohhh, a weekend double whammy!

The first movie originally had a "To Be Continued..." title card at the end, even though they didn't mean it. Then, after they made the decision to actually continue it, they took that title card off. But they put a "To Be Concluded" title card at the end of Part 2. Weird. Re-creating all those 1955 scenes was a lot of work, but they did a great job. Parts 2 and 3 were shot as one production. That's why you could have the preview at the end of Part 2, even in theatrical release. And they released Part 2 on VHS the same week that Part 3 came out in theaters. Yup, they did understand marketing.

the faces n the tv's a lot of people miss it , it was a reference to a tv series called max headroom, with virtual personalities, they just changed it to servers in shops. the eye glasses we had something like google glasses it was part AR,

Power Laces exists, create in "2015" from Nike. Air MAG Power Laces.

Great reaction Amanda

You're right there was no CGI in the 80s when they made part 1 and part 2 and part 3 they had to use mechanical effects. Which is what movies used before CGI before computers they use mechanical effects to create the delusion of certain impossible things. The hoverboards for example it was actors hanging on wires and they were able to photo crop the wires out to make it look like they were flying versus now you could just use CGI. Also we do have self-lacing shoes they came out in 2015 actually and the Cubs did win the World series in 2016 so they were just one year off on that some of the stuff they did get right.

You're doing a great job! I really enjoy your videos!! Happy New Year 🎉

You might also recognize Marty McFly's antagonist, Douglas J. Needles, as Flea, the bassist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers.

So the reason to .ake the time machine a delorian was they could use the gull wing door one time in the sequel to knock out old biff, the original idea for the time machine was a refrigerator but they didn't want anyone getting trapped in a refrigerator trying to replicate this

We are more advanced but the technology has been supressed, it comes out in trickles rather than revolutionary..

As a kid, who grew up in the 80's... we kinda did think we'd have flying cars in 2015 lol... oddly enough there have been some advances movies like this thought we'd have that have come around and some are even MORE advanced than what the movie or show thought we'd have (things like our ipads and laptops are far smaller and thinner and stronger than the data pads in Star Trek is one such example).

They didn't originally plan any sequels. I was actually pretty surprised when they first announced the sequels 5 years later and that they were filming them back to back. Back to back was a pretty cool concept to me at the time and thirst time I had ever heard of two movies being filmed on purpose so quickly like that. Didn't hurt they also said they'd be released like 6 months apart. Since then there's been a few movies filmed this way. The two matrix sequels for example. It's a good way to avoid any schedule conflicts with the actors or even deaths, tho the matrix did have one real life actor death to deal with while making their two sequels.

Crispin Glover who played Marty's dad had a disagreement with the series writer Bob Gale. He felt the ending of the 1st film was superfical and materialistic.... its only a happy ending because "Marty got a truck and his parents have money" but Marty is now a stranger to his own family, something that the original actor cast as Marty, Eric Stoltz.. pointed out. Bob Gale didnt seem to care for anyone to question his script... so one thing led to another and Crispin wasnt in part 2. .. EXCEPT for reused footage.. which Crispin wasnt paid for... so he sued.. and won. That lawsuit changed how actors are compensated for their likeness in films and it also gave Glover money to make a few personal art films.

Watching a reaction video that was filmed recently, to a time travel movie, where they travel to the future that is our past, after having watched a different reaction video about the same time travel story, that was released two years ago but was filmed earlier for Twitch viewers, is intensely confusing in terms of all the different points in time I've been keeping in my head and I now regret watching the reactions on two times speed because my brain is so confused!!!

I was about to type in 'Notice Frodo in the 'like a baby's toy.' scene...

The second and third movie were filmed at the same time.

In 1955 there were no artificial satellites, no astronauts, no supersonic passenger planes, hardly any computers, no household microwave ovens, no color TV. By 1989 when Part II came out all those things existed. For flying cars, inventors were still raising investment funds or taking down-payments from people eager to buy one. It seemed like flying cars would be achieved and 2015 seemed a plausible year for it.

If you make a time travel movie that mentions Eddie van Halen you get to write the rules for other time travel movies

32:38 "You Mean That By The Time They'd Done The 2nd Part, They Already Did The 3rd One?" Actually Amanda, they'd did like Peter Jackson did with "The Lord Of The Rings" trilogy and filmed parts 2 and 3 simultaneously

"I'm gonna stop you right there, Scott. Are you seriously telling me that your plan to save the universe is based on Back To The Future?" -- Tony Stark

Being correct does not prove you're not losing your mind.

That's the same tunnel that goes to toon town in who framed Roger rabbit

Those Autolace Nike sneakers actually exist.

Part of the reason they filmed BTTF’s 2 and 3 at the same time was because Michael J. Fox was clearly too old to play a teenager much longer so they decided to do them together.

Amanda is hooked! She has time travel in her blood now! 👍👍