BLEAK FOR THE FUTURE, PART II

BACK TO THE FUTURE, PART II (1989)
dir: Robert Zemeckis

BLEAK FOR THE FUTURE, PART II
MAD #295, April 1990
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker

This begins where the last movie left off (press 'Older Post'). After getting back to 1985 Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Jennifer (Elisabeth Shue) are taken by Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) go to 2015 because their son is in trouble. They've added sportscaster John Madden to give play-by-play commentary.

Jennifer is knocked out because she can't know about future events. Which begs the question why Doc insisted she come along.

Marty sees the town square in the future and he sees his future son, a nerd like his father had been. His son is about to be framed by Biff(Tom Wilson)'s son's gang and must stop the set-up.

Having taken the place of his son and stopped the conviction, Marty is ready to go back home. But on the way back, he finds a book of sports results. He gets the idea to bet on the scores knowing them in advance, but the Doc tells him not to, as it would alter history.

But now when they go back things are still different in the present. Marty goes back to what he thinks is his home, but since history his somehow been altered, it's now the wrong house. The town of Hill Valley has become a dystopia.

Biff (Tom Wilson) is now the richest man in town, having turned the town hall into a casino and earned his fortune from using the book of sports records, hanging out with the likes of businessman Donald Trump (I wonder what ever happened to that guy).

To make matters worse Biff has married his mother Lorraine (Lea Thompson) and killed his father. I'll let John Madden explain it.

Marty needs to go to 1955 to make sure Biff doesn't get the sports almanac from the Biff of 2015. After he does, Biff crashes into a manure truck, a running joke in all three movies.

Peggy Sue was a character in the film Peggy Sue Got Married, which came out a couple years earlier, had a similar plot, and was also roasted by Mad.

Having re-resolved the mess they made of 2015, now they have to go back to the OLD West for the sequel, shot simultaneously and released a few months later. MORE FREAK-OUTS FROM BACK IN THE FUTURE
Cracked #253, May 1990
w: George Gladir
a: John Severin

Predictions for what would happen in the year 2015, very much like articles that were in Cracked 20 years earlier. Not necessary to have Marty McFly in order to make sense, but why not cash in on the hottest movie of the moment?

CRACKED TO THE FUTURE, PART II
Cracked #254, June 1990
w: Tony Frank (Lou Silverstone)
a: John Severin

They were still making ethnic jokes in 1990.

In the first film, it was established that Marty was a skateboard enthusiast in the eighties. When he ends up in the fifties he hijacks a kid's go-cart and makes a skateboard out of it to outsmart the bullies. He does the same in this one with a child's scooter, except it's a hoverboard.

There's a scene that wasn't used in MAD where Jennifer wakes up in her 2015 house and sees how the future McFly family has become. They have a daughter who is also played by Michael J. Fox. Crispin Glover, who played the father in the first movie, wouldn't appear in the sequel so they replaced him. Jennifer couldn't handle the future as was expected and faints again.

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, also about time travel, was the other big movie then and was parodied elsewhere in that issue.