****½

Marty, I’m almost 18 years old. It’s not like I’ve never parked before.

Lea Thompson as Lorraine Baines in Back to the Future, © 1985 Universal Pics.

Lea Thompson as Lorraine Baines in Back to the Future, © 1985 Universal Pics.

I noticed something different this time—what is playing at the movie theater. Before Marty, Michael J. Fox, goes back in time, the name of the movie playing is “Orgy American Style.” Upon his return it is “The Assembly of Christ,” with Reverend So-and-So. The implication is that with a few small changes that Michael J. Fox made in 1955 his family’s life greatly improved, the town got much nice, and Biff Tannen’s life worsened. But the internal logic of the film does not fit fully, since Doc Brown–Christopher Lloyd–gets shot by the terrorists and is already wearing his bulletproof vest. I do not know if that mistake or the Christian propaganda is the worst goof in the movie. Regardless, it is still amazing. Oh, now I remember the worst goof, the awful Chuck Berry phone call joke.