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“Back to the Future” deserves to be endlessly rewound. Shot for shot, line for line, it’s the modern era’s zippiest comedy about the collapse of the American dream, with a sting that would have had its forefathers Frank Capra and Preston Sturges cheering: How the dickens did Robert Zemeckis get away with that?

And I’m not even talking about the sequel where the bullying mogul Biff Tannen turns downtown Hill Valley into a hellish Pleasure Paradise Casino & Hotel. All of the franchise’s social satire is right there in the 1985 original, which returns to theaters this week to mark its 40th anniversary. “Back to the Future” just might be Hollywood’s richest, cleverest blockbuster —

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