When Marty is waiting for Griff in the cafe he plays a videogame with two young boys. One of the boys is a very young Elijah Wood.
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Directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Christopher Lloyd, Elizabeth Shue, Lea Thompson, Michael J. Fox, Thomas F. Wilson (add more)
When Marty is waiting for Griff in the cafe he plays a videogame with two young boys. One of the boys is a very young Elijah Wood.
This film was shot simultaneously with Part III. In the five years since the original film was made, Michael J. Fox had forgotten how to ride a skateboard, and needed to relearn the skill.
Towards the beginning of the movie there is a close-up of the front window of Blast From the Past. If you look closely in the upper left hand corner you can see the jacket that Marty wore in the first movie. Also if you look on the right hand side you can see a Who Framed Roger Rabbit doll, another Robert Zemeckis film.
When Marty is scared because of the holographic picture of the shark coming from the 'Jaws 19' advert, if you look closely you can see 'Directed by Max Spielberg'. Steven Spielberg, who directed the first Jaws, has a son named Max.
The tunnel that Biff Tannen and Marty McFly both go through, is also the same tunnel seen in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Vaguely interesting point - when Doc and Marty arrive back in 1955 to stop the handover of the Almanac, there are actually 4 versions of the same time machine in the area at that time. The one they've just arrived in from the alternate 1985, the one Marty arrived in from the original 1985 in the first film, the one Biff's arrived in from the future, and the one Doc's buried from 1885.
When young Jennifer is in her future house, her daughter-to-be, Marlene, comes down the stairs. Marlene says, "Mom? Mom, is that you?" - the same quote used by Marty three times throughout the trilogy when he wakes up in bed, after being knocked out.
In an interview, the director stated that hoverboards were real, but they weren't on the market because parents didn't like the idea of floating children. He said this as a joke, but this didn't stop mass hysteria as thousands of kids went from store to store looking for hoverboards.
The final third act, in which Marty and Doc return to 1955, was originally written with them travelling to the 1960s.
Much of Griff's outfit, particularly his boots are bits of Klingon costumes from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
When Marty is in the Cafe 80's, when he is about to hit Griff or get hit by Griff, you can see a row of TVs behind them (showing the Smurfs, etc). One of the TVs is showing Family Ties, the TV show that made Michael J. Fox famous.
In the scene where the Doc of the future, hands the 3/4 wrench to the Doc of 1955, the Doc of 1955 is wearing the same two watches that the other Doc wears throughout the entire movie. This could actually happen if the Doc of 1955 kept the same two watches to wear throughout his life. It's still worth a look.
In Back to the Future II, Biff is watching the Clint Eastwood movie A Fistful of Dollars. If you have seen this, you know that at the end, Clint uses a piece of metal to stop all the shots from Ramon. In Back to the Future Part III Marty calls himself Clint Eastwood and at the end, he uses a piece of metal to keep himself from dying.
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