Often in a trilogy, the second installment is the boring one. That isn't the case with these movies. The second one has a very high level of entertainment value. Granted, part of that entertainment is laughing at just how off their vision of the future really was. But I'm pretty sure that they never really thought that hover boards and flying cars would actually emerge. Or that CCDC sunglasses would make a comeback. The exaggerated predictions were basically a vehicle to amp up the fish out of water theme for the rest of the movie. In fact, everything in this one is basically the first one but just more exaggerated. The characters are all the same but more melodramatic and the situations are even more bizarre. It worked in the first so they did it in the second.
They did go a little too far though. Doc Brown and Biff go overboard with their antics and it actually draws away from the story. Had they kept them on the same level as the first film, this one would have been even better. I believe they reshot most of the scenes that took place in the first film so keeping the characters on a more even keel would have provided for a more seamless sequel. But that isn't really enough to take away from the fact that it is entertaining.
The one thing that does irritate me a bit about the movie is that Doc, a guy who is so adamant about paradoxes and catastrophic consequences of interfering with events in time travel brings Marty to the future specifically to interfere with events.
Still, see it.
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