IN THE SAME KEY
Movies like Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Back to the Future Part II runs on crowd pleaser, joyful exuberance, and kinetic urgency. We scored our full corpus against that fingerprint: the films below sit closest to the same key.

Back to the Future
1985

Bill & Ted Face the Music
2020

Son of Flubber
1963

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
2013

Captain Nova
2021

Back to the Future Part III
1990

The Last Starfighter
1984

The Absent-Minded Professor
1961

The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones
1987

Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.
1966

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
2009

My Science Project
1985

The Adam Project
2022

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie
2014

Sonic the Hedgehog 2
2022

A Walk in Time
1996

Kim Possible: A Sitch In Time
2003

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
2016

A Kid in King Arthur's Court
1995

The Invisible Boy
1957

Dino Time
2012

Regular Show: The Movie
2015

Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi
2017

Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass
2025