#Future link it reviews movie#

Against expectations, the lack of originality turns out not to matter.Įven before the lights go down, it’s clear that this production is intent on making spectacle respectable, with giant LED display panels rising up from above the proscenium and out and across the walls of the orchestra. That - and the means of Doc’s “death” being contaminated by plutonium, not killed by gunmen - are pretty much the only plot changes of a night that, mostly, doesn’t so much follow every move of Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale’s original blockbuster as to stick to it like glue.

No, not a counterfactual philosophical premise: I’m talking Doc Brown’s dog, or, rather, the lack thereof. What you need to know is that Einstein doesn’t exist.

#Future link it reviews movie#

Despite its many flaws, not least a merely serviceable score, Tim Hatley’s stunning, multi-dimensional design - thrillingly meshing physical production, lighting, projection, sound and hydraulics - lifts what threatened to be a movie retread into a live entertainment triumph. “ Back To The Future - the Musical” is not one of those shows. In recent decades, numerous musical have arrived in London with outsized production values swamping the material, leading critics to wish for time machines so that they can fast-forward to the inevitable, hugely scaled-down revival in an off- West End house where the writing can be savored.