Back to the Future Part II is on Netflix (sort of). Fans noticed that the version of the classic sci-fi adventure movie streaming on Netflix was missing a classic joke that aired in the original film. Social media is now full of clips, angry diatribes and memes.
The Back to the Future franchise is one of the few classic movie franchises that even the fans consider untouchable. Attempts to reboot the series have always been met with a lukewarm response, as many feel that tampering with this masterpiece could only be for the worse. Still, fans noticed that the part where Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) flips to the cover of Oh La La Magazine was completely missing. It should be noted that the scene in full, complete with the magazine cover, is now streaming on the platform.
As fans may recall, Marty travels back to 1955 in the third act of Back to the Future Part II to retrieve the stolen sports almanac from Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson). In one scene, he thinks he's found the almanac, only to discover that the cover has been used to disguise an adult magazine called Oh La La. In the version of the film on Netflix, those few seconds showing the racy cover were completely cut from the scene.
The change, which has since been resolved, caught many fans off-guard for several reasons. Chief among them was that, even if they didn't remember the Oh La La joke, fans could tell that something had been changed in the scene by the "sloppy" edit. For many fans, the scariest part of the missing scene was the question: "If they sloppily edited this beloved trilogy, WHO KNOWS what OTHER films they've tampered with without you even noticing?"
In the past, Netflix has denied editing movies for its platform, which means it's possible that another version of the film was streaming on the platform without the company's knowing. Given the fact that there was no real nudity in the edited cover, some fans are now guessing that the edit was a mistake — especially since the original version of the scene is now streaming. Others are not so forgiving — here's a look at what Twitter has to say about Netflix's apparent Back to the Future Part II edit.