Saw Back to the Future Part 2, the one where they go forward in time. Being a Robert Zemeckis film, it makes heavy use of neat camera tricks that allow the same actors to interact with themselves in other roles. It's very neat and, wonder of wonders, doesn't get in the way of the story which is to say it doesn't get in the way of the action. Most of the film is taken up with running breathlessly from place to place, always just one step away from creating a paradox or from letting the future become some Pottersville, crypto-Trump-ruled hell-hole. The result is a ripping film that keeps the fun coming. There's little in the way of trenchant observations on the fraught human condition but what, of course, did you expect?
The most fun part for me was the curiously VHS-tinted future, where we have computers that take our fast-food orders but they jitter and stutter like Max Headroom. We have fake windows that look out on to sunny beaches, until we turn the projector off. It's funny how this stuff is totally possible now but also kind of tacky and off-putting (except for the hover boards which are cool but will never happen. We'll never have hover boards.) You'll notice they have auto-fit clothing, but they also have a lot of leotards.
Anyway, retro-future aside, the film is good fun. As deep as a pancake but they don't all have to be Jeanne Dielman. If nothing else, I'll never get sick of watching Christopher Lloyd's Doc Brown scream and react and just sometimes stand there with his jaw held askew. I also notice just what a heavy debt Rick and Morty owes this series. I mean, I knew there were similarities but Rick and Morty is essentially this film but with burping (and also with better and darker jokes. Sorry, Back to the Future franchise, I find robots in the throws of existential crisis way funnier.) Anyway, a solid fun film.
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