Back to the Future Part II
“Getting back was only the beginning.”
Marty and Doc are at it again as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen and a pesky sports almanac. In a last-ditch attempt to set things straight, Marty finds himself bound for 1955 and face to face with his teenage parents -- again.
How Back to the Future Part II compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Back to the Future, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #2 of 3
- Rank in the series by rating
- 4 years
- Wait since the previous film
- 29%
- Share of the series audience
Back to the Future Part II (1989) ranks 2nd of the 3 rated films in the Back to the Future series, at 7.8/10 on TMDB against a series average of 7.9/10.
It arrived 4 years after Back to the Future (1985), the longest wait between any two films in the Back to the Future series.
Its 14,264 TMDB ratings are 29% of the 48,428 cast across the series.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Back to the Future, comparing all 3 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.
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