#What is the theme of the brave little toaster movie#
This is a children’s movie about an adorable talking toaster. WHAT THE FUCK, ANIMATORS? ARE YOU ALL INSANE? What happens next used to haunt my dreams.Ĭan I swear on this blog? Is that alright? Okay, I’m going for it. But while trying to grab them, he’s picked up by a giant magnet and pinned to a conveyor belt, heading towards the crusher. He sees (and somehow recognizes) his beloved appliances. Our heroes’ beloved master arrives at the junkyard, looking for cheap stuff to bring to college (this was pre-IKEA, of course). Keep in mind, I have not even gotten to the dark part yet. Eventually they wind up in a junkyard, where the broken-down cars sing the blues as they are brutally executed, one by one. The appliances decide to go on a dangerous and totally terrifying journey through the woods to find their master. (Hey, did you know that the voice of Tony the Tiger is the same guy who sang the “You’re a Mean One, Mister Grinch” song?) It is pretty much the saddest thing ever.īy the way: yes, the vacuum cleaner is Tony the Tiger. Everyday the appliances wait, broken-hearted, for their beloved “master” to return for them. They live in a cabin in the woods, which hasn’t been visited in years. The story is about a vacuum cleaner, a radio, a lamp, an electric blanket, and of course, a toaster. The Brave Little Toaster became a traditional 2-D feature in 1987. (But don’t feel too bad for John– he runs Walt Disney Animation now.) That pitch went so poorly that Lasseter was fired ten minutes later. Tom Willhite liked the idea, too, and got us the rights to the story so we could pitch it to the animation studio along with our test clip. I’ve always loved animating inanimate objects, and this story had a lot of that. Years later, he recalled:Ī friend of mine had told me about a 40-page novella called “The Brave Little Toaster,” by Thomas Disch. In the early 80’s a Disney junior animator named John Lasseter had the crazy idea of making a computer-generated feature. These similarities may be more than a coincidence.
In both movies, the objects obsess over becoming lost, broken, or unwanted. Both movies center on the objects’ struggle to be reunited with their owners. It’s about inanimate objects that talk and move when people aren’t around, and their fierce love for a little boy. In some ways, Toaster was a dry run for Toy Story. A John Lasseter sketch, from back when he wanted to make a computer-animated Brave Little Toaster.
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