Why Back To The Future 2 Is the Franchise's Black Sheep?
The middle sibling syndrome in its action.
Back To The Future 2 may be a beloved classic, but it's hard to ignore the fact that something was missing from the film.
While fans continue to admire the iconic Marty McFly and Doc Brown duo, the absence of some of the key franchise ingredients remained perceptible throughout the film.
The second part doesn't give the same level of emotional depth as its predecessor. In the first movie, we experience the origin of the romance between Marty's parents.
We see their first meet, the way they fall into each other after George saves Lorraine from Biff, alongside Marty we become the witnesses of their first dance and their first kiss on the Enchantment Under The Sea Dance.
In Back To The Future 3 the romantic story switches to Doc Brown and his love interest Clara layton.
Their unplanned, natural love becomes the driving force behind all of Doc's future actions, and he even decides to stay with Clara in 1885, where they end up getting married and having two beautiful children.
And while the first and the third films give us a lot of moments with butterflies in our stomachs, the second part of the franchise robs us of the romance that we could not shut up about.
Instead of giving us more details on Marty and Jennifer's relationship, the movie focuses on hatred and dark consequences after Biff's greedy actions.
While the film does have plenty of action, time travel hijinks, and futuristic gadgets, it lacks the heart and emotion that we got from its fellows.
Although it is a franchise about time travel, we believe that Back To The Future is first and foremost about love and how it can overcome all obstacles and encourage characters to do crazy things in the name of it.
That's why it's hard to shake the feeling that Back To The Future 2 is a black sheep among its brothers — iconic and great, but it will always be a middle sibling.