Back to the Future (2013 film)

Back to the Future is a 2013 computer-animated science fiction film directed by Dave Filoni and a remake of the 1985 live-action film of the same name, while also incorporating elements from the second film. The film is also based off of the episodic 2010-2011 video game developed by Telltale Games through a licensing agreement with Universal Pictures, and is the first film from Telltale Features, the film division of the company. Unlike the game, the film does not focus on the third film at all. The film follows Marty McFly (Logan Lerman), a teenager sent back accidentally to 1955 in the DeLorean, a time-traveling vehicle built by his scientist friend Doctor Emmett "Doc" Brown (Russell Crowe). Marty becomes trapped in the past, where he must help his parents reconcile after preventing them from meeting each other and threatens his own existence while also trying to find a way back into the future.

The film was released theatrically on April 12, 2013, and received a generally positive reception, with the voice performances and faithfulness to the original film being praised. However, the animation polarized critics, with many either calling it impressive or mechanical. The film ended up on several lists ranking the best or worst animated films of the year. Nonetheless, the film was a box office success, grossing $210 million on a budget of $56 million. Due to the film surpassing expectations commercially, Telltale started producing more films based on their games, even after their game division shut down in 2018 and was rebooted in 2019 by LCG Entertainment, Inc.