The movie ‘Back to the Future Part II’ features two men and a woman who travel into the future, to the year 2015. The time travelers Marty McFly and Dr. Emmett Brown go to the future because Marty’s son is in danger of being arrested. In order to stop this from happening, they must travel ahead of time to try and fix the problem.

Their future has now become our present, as it has just turned 2015. However, the world isn’t as advanced as the writer of the film, Bob Gale, had predicted it to be.

At the beginning of the movie, the characters travel to the year 2015 in a flying car; today we still don’t have flying cars and we certainly cannot travel through time. They also ride around on hovercrafts, which are similar to flying skateboards with no wheels.

“It would be really neat if skateboards could fly today, like they do in the movie,” Senior Tanner Steel said.

In the movie, people from 2015 have jackets that can automatically shrink to their size and, when wet, dry themselves.

During the film, McFly wore a pair of Nike self- lacing tennis shoes; this is another invention that we still don’t have today.

“Nike is supposedly working on making a shoe that laces itself, but I don’t think that this invention will actually come out anytime soon,” Sophomore Michael Kraus said.

Overall, the movies prediction about 2015 fashion was very off from what it’s actually like. People were dressed in ridiculous outfits that you wouldn’t see if you were to walk down the street today.

Some characters even wore metal hats. McFly turned his jean pockets inside out when he traveled to 2015 to fit in with other teenagers.

Today, outfits are nothing like they were displayed in the film. Girls will wear skinny jeans, boots and a sweater. In the movie, girls wore skirts, overalls and many odd-looking headpieces.

“My favorite part of the movie is when they put an inch-size pizza in the oven and it came out full-sized,” Kraus said. This was just another invention we still don’t have today. You put the small pizza into something that resembles a microwave. You then tell the machine a number and it enlarges the pizza in just seconds.

Back to the Future’s 2015 also had self-walking dog leashes. The leashes would walk your dog around the block for you, so you didn’t have worry about it.

Although the movie tries to make many guesses about future technology, one aspect that the movie didn’t account for is the cell phone, which is very prevalent in today’s society. Back then, they didn’t think this to be a possible invention. Instead they thought fax machines would become popular.

Even though the movie did make false predictions, there were some inventions they got right. Two inventions were the flat screen tv and video chatting. They did showcase these two items in the movie.

The director of the movie, Robert Zemeckis, has said that he didn’t plan to make true predictions of 2015. Most inventions of today were not thought of then.