1985: Original BACK TO THE FUTURE Review | Film 85 | Classic Movie Review | BBC Archive

The film is a masterclass, especially from Fox as he was shooting Family Ties in the day then BTTF in the evening 😮❤👏🏼👏🏼

just need the intro music to complete the retro feel.

Barry Norman was an honest reviewer of movies. I watched his program every week. It was always on late on BBC One but I loved it. If he didn't like a film he would say so and never held anything back.

A comment I live by was by Empire magazine, I don’t trust people who don’t like BTTF because as they said ‘if you don’t, I find it hard to believe you like films at all’. But this is all beautifully put by Barry. Spot on.

Great review. Funny, the trilogy encompassed the three most obsessed about pieces of American culture. The future/space/jet age, the 1950s and cowboys 😄 Every moment of these movies, particularly the first two, are perfection and iconic.

… and why not?

“Sniffing up the white line…”? Did Barry just say that? ;)

Blousey boozer 😂😂

Damn, when you remember just how good Michael J. Fox was, Parkinson's robbed him and us of many more great roles.

He did get it!

Even Doc Brown was shock when he found out Ronald Reagan was the president.

Not 1985 back to the future

My favourite film of all time. The perfect movie.

Love Barry miss him ❤️

We have literally no high quality film critics producing concise, intelligent analysis of new movies like this today. It’s tragic, and Barry Norman shows via these classic reviews just how good he was. Also, his opinions were very much his own, no being owned by the big studios to give fake reviews like today.

TV was so chill back then. Now its all freaks screaming at each other.

The film is littered with occult symbolism.

It seems like Netflix etc has killed the cinema. We hardly ever go now. And the films we watch on Netflix and Prime are mostly throw-away rubbish that you watch for 30 minutes and then give up.

So much sass in this review. And attention to detail as well.

You want to feel old? If the movie were made today and they went back in time the same amount of time to the “olden days”, they’d go back to 1993.

Mr Fox

Imagine if he had to review the utter shite they are pumping out now … And how many of these shite movies of today di you think will be classics .. ever ?

“Sniffing up the white line”, that’s a great nod to DeLorean 😂

Love, love, love this. Takes me straight back to first chatting about this movie around the family dinner table, before I finally got to see it - remains one of my all time favourite movies when growing up. Watching this is total time travel (see what I did there!?).

I miss Barry🇮🇪

even people who never went to the cinema watched this show religiously every week , Barry Norman was so good

I love the casual reference to cocaine use on a late-night BBC One show. There'd be uproar if such a thing happened today.

Back when films reviewers were respected! These days I 100% ignore mainstream reviews! 🤯🤯🤯🤯😎😎😎😎👍👍👍👍👍

This wasn’t a review. It’s a complete and utter spoiler 😂

Time travel stories are a dime a dozen, but Back to the Future stands apart from all of them.

Life used to be about this and now it's about how the governments are abusing us... How things change...

One of the best films ever. Still now I love it

And we let Ross and Winkleman host this…. Barry was great

one of the best films of the eighties

That Delorean line was gold

He’s slippery dig at John deloreon 🤣🤣

A blousy boozer?

My favorite movie ever❤

Only one more year to go and this classic movie turns the Big 4-0.

Am I the only one who thinks he spoiled almost the whole movie?

The 80's put out some proper bangers.
Legit legendary movies.

Jump forward to 2024. Dam.

This man was obsessed with how much money the directors are making.Seems to crop up in every review.Very British.

It’s almost as if one day Trump could be president ….. this is amazing

Brilliant reviews by an Absolutely brilliant reviewer.

That looks like such a cool movie. 😎

The strangest thing about this review is that Barry Norman doesn't say any of these words: Marty, Doc, Biff.

That closing line was the best.

Jesus used to love this show. the only way you could see trailers back then other then going cinema ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤