The Brave Little Toaster - Nostalgia Critic
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- Опубликовано: 17 май 2022
- By popular demand, Nostalgia Critic gives the Freakshow Cinema treatment on an innocent looking movie that surprisingly gets pretty intense. Let's take a look at The Brave Little Toaster.
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The Brave Little Toaster is a 1987 American animated musical film directed by Jerry Rees. It is based on the 1980 novella of the same name by Thomas M. Disch. The film stars Deanna Oliver, Timothy E. Day, Jon Lovitz, Tim Stack, and Thurl Ravenscroft, with Wayne Kaatz, Colette Savage, Phil Hartman, Joe Ranft, and Jim Jackman in supporting roles. It is set in a world where domestic appliances and other consumer electronics come to life, pretending to be lifeless in the presence of humans. The story focuses on five anthropomorphic household appliances, which include a toaster, a lamp stand, a blanket, a radio and a vacuum cleaner, who go on a quest to search for their owner.
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The 80's were a crazy scary time
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Speaking of 80's movies, can you please review The Outsiders? It's a good movie, based on a good book that I think most of us read in school. It's a really good cast, directed by Francis Ford Coppola (with a cameo by his daughter Sofia when she was a kid), and the story of how and the why they made the movie is pretty interesting.
I gotta rewatch this movie
I somehow don't have much memeories of this film
Especially 87. That year was *garbage* that *pales* in comparison when it comes to *kids* stuff. I of course refer to Superman 4.
@@coolnerdlll6053 Oh
The dream sequence was a bunch of different ways that the toaster was a danger to his master. He could cause fires, the master could stick a fork in him and get shocked, and of course, the infamous toaster in a bathtub. It somewhat forces the idea that the true fear the toaster has is accidentally hurting his master and it's just being symbolized through a dream where he himself is getting chased and killed.
Maybe this is why the master hasn't returned in so long; the toaster could have been used in a suicide.
always figured it was Toaster worried he'd die before he saw The Master again. like, sure, these can kill us but think what it's like to the toaster.
I love your King of The Hill videos!
I see the Toaster's nightmare as a premonition of the future. Though I believe that everyone else's interpretations are valid too.
The creepiest part of the nightmare, for me, wasn't the clown. I grew up with plenty of clowns around me and I was never scared of them. It was that part where Toaster is hanging over the bathtub. You hear this demonic laughing in the background, the walls are blood red, and the music is loud and intense. That for me was the chilling part.
"Worthless" hits different when you realize it's basically what old folks in a retirement home go through: their best days are behind them, their body is breaking down, the world has cast them aside, so now all they can do is wait for death.
Ikr. As a kid, the catchy tune is what caught me. But years later, fully understanding the tone and the meaning behind the lyrics, made me realize just how dark it really was, and only made me appreciate it more.
Agreed. Each has a story to tell, and they spend their final moments passing it on rather than risk it never being heard. The magnet must be so sick of hearing everyone's life story.
And don't forget the truck that drove itself onto the conveyor to save the magnet the trouble of sending it off to it's end. The magnet is kinda like the grim reaper, always hovering near and you never know which it will take next.
That sums me up on a regular basis.
We're all waiting for death
Oh God.
Fun fact: at her son's deployment ceremony to Afghanistan, some of the soldiers who were fans of the film had brought their toasters with them for Deanna Oliver to autograph.
That’s adorable
@@marleecorrell1486 love ❤️ that
That's great.
That's incredible
Fun Fact: The voice of the radio recorded all of his lines in a single marathon session due to his tight schedule with other projects at the time.
Another fun fact: He beat up Andy Dick because Andy was the one who got Phil Hartmans wife back into drugs and ultimately got Hartman killed as a result.
Jon Lovitz is a gigachad
Just another reason why John Lovitz is the GOAT
Yeah, Kevin Smith would loudly disagree. Lovitz isn’t known for being very nice, to put it mildly.
@@joeycoe85 Frankly, neither is Mr. Smith, and he's been quite dishonest before. I think I'd trust Lovitz over him.
I'm not 100% but I think that was because around this time Lovitz had just joined the cast of Saturday Night Live
I think it's really funny that he kept showing the scene with the flower field and the little animals as an example of this movie being cute and happy. As a kid, you know what part of that scene stuck out to me? The end. The part where a flower falls in love with it's reflection in the side of the toaster, gets rejected, and dies.
Honestly, yeah, everyone talks about how the car crusher at the end or the nightmare sequence with the clown were so scary, but the scenes that really fucked me up as a kid were that flower, and the blender getting gutted alive in a vice! 😨 I LOVE this movie, but he was right when he said that if those characters had been flesh and blood, it would have gotten a very hard R rating!
I MEAN what is the moral of that moment anyway?? Flower: "Dude... sorry. You can't be everybody's cup of tea. Let me show you that by dying".
@@catalinamelo9932 It teachs Toaster to ne nicer to Blanket.
Dougie had a narrative to push and it was that there happy scenes too. It's like when your mother says "See, your childhood wasn't so bad, look at this photo of you smiling for the camera!"
You're not alone. 😢
That scene with the vacuum really is deep because up until that moment he wasn't really a team player. He was a bit of a bully himself. He wasn't totally on board with going out to find the master. So yeah, when everybody else is gone he takes a moment to consider if he really wants to save them. It's a very dark scene where he has the power to decide.
i don't agree. He was a team player- but he was wearing a "tough buy" facade. the Vacuum plays the role of a manly man who never shows his emotions and never shows vulnerability. His personality is stoic and practical. He snaps at the others because they show childish behavior or because he bears much of the burden- He is the strongest and most productive. He is like a tough 1950's dad who believes in hard work and never showing your feelings- which is why his mental breakdown at the waterfall, the effect when the others fall and he rescues them and finally when they have to pull him after he is worn out all have such a poignant feel.
Water is basically the appliances weakness cuz it kills them, so Vacuum was trying to muster up the courage to save everyone
@@MrChickennugget360 I agree except on occasions like when he joined in for the chorus of the City of Lights song; even though it was for a second
I actually got the impression that Kirby was brokenhearted on the edge of the waterfall, and the final desperate leap was more of a suicide attempt than a rescue mission. He was gruff but truly cared about the rest of them which is why he allowed himself to be dragged along on the trip. Right at the beginning he chose to accompany his friends against his better judgement rather than be separated from them.
Zuko type redemption arc mofo
4:50 - It wasn't "needed" I suppose, but what Critic doesn't mention here is that the vacuum, Kirby, actually goes through a bit of an arc and this moment was what it was building towards. All throughout the movie, he's a sour grump towards the others and that comes to a head right before this moment. He has a meltdown and when they try to help him, he blows up at them and says he'd be better off on his own. It really adds to that quiet moment when it seems like he got exactly what he wanted and you realize that he's putting that together too.
I'm surprised he didn't mention Kirby's panic-seizure/meltdown as well. Seeing the stoic tough guy just suddenly come undone and start swallowing his cord at the sight of water (which he, as an indoor dry-vac, has plenty of reason to fear) is disarming as well. Whenever that scene is brought up anywhere, people always mention that it made them terrified of running over the cord while vacuuming
The way the clown just whispers ‘run’ instead of yelling it…man that’s how it happens in nightmares. So good.
BTW, that Clown was voiced by Jim Cummings. The guy who voiced Winnie the Pooh. You're welcome.
@@KitsuneCentral And Dick Dastardly, AND the Terror Mask in Splatterhouse 2010. Makes sense, I'm not even surprised.
It's like this creepypasta story from years back about this outbreak of superstrong, pissed off rage zombies. They're in this huge surging mob just ripping apart ANYTHING they can get their hands on with this jacked up super speed 'roid rage. The narrator KNOWS all this, has been watching it happen. They become aware of him, break into his house stomp all though it busting down walls and beating and ripping everything in sight to shit , finally zeroing in on the bathroom he's hiding in.
Then in the end one of the zombies politely knocks on the door, and in a perfectly calm, reasonable voice ASKS to be let inside.
@@KitsuneCentralWhy has his name uncredited for unexplained reason? Everybody didn’t know that before.
I don't recall any dreams like that where a _different_ character was "whisper-threatening." ... However, I do know the type where *I* try speaking, then a sudden fear comes by, and I can barely whisper, and maybe all of the color and sound get sucked out of the room except for my whisper.
Ah, the 80’s, when everything geared toward kids was also designed to scare the living hell out of them. Loved it.
As a 2000s kid, I agree💯💯💯💯
Also when movies were allowed to take risks and be creative.
Where did it all go?
Me too, went up to Vermont to visit family and forgot it when we came back home, so my dad went back to get it!
And we had things like Rambo, Commando, Lethal Weapon, and many others.
too many people review this movie
One thing he never mentioned was a scene where the Toaster encounters a flower that’s sentient somehow with no eyes or mouth, just a real looking flower.
It mistakes it’s own reflection on the toaster thinking it’s another flower and looks happy. But the toaster corrects him that it’s not real, then leaves.
The toaster looks back at the flower and it’s wilting under a small beam of light, with its petals falling.
Scenes like that really leaves quite an impression.
Oh I remember that!
and after that he attempts to be nicer to the blanket, as he refused to cuddle with him earlier.
That's an extremely profound message for a movie like this. Between utter horror and happy go lucky frolicking a message like that can really connect with anyone watching .
That scene got me watching it again as an adult
He also didn’t mention the truck committing suicide during the song “Worthless.” Something I didn’t pick up on as a kid.
One of the coolest things about this movie is how it really is about the journey, not the destination. If they had all just stayed home, the master would've come anyway and taken them with him. But they went out together, overcame trials, and even learned about each other and became closer. And they probably needed it just as much as they wanted to be with the master again
In a way it kind of reminds me of Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey and The Incredible Journey itself. The pets could have stayed with the people whom were looking after them and get picked up by their owners and brought back home eventually but they go on an adventure and learn so much about themselves during the process of it all. :)
Great example of The Hero's Journey.
The scene where Toaster rejects the flower's love and it wilts and basically dies still makes me cry to this day
Damn, memory unlocked...
I'm surprised he didn't talk about that scene. That's the one that made me feel the most uncomfortable.
YES!! I'm so happy someone mentioned this. Its actually the only major scene that really bothers me and I hate that the flower gets no resolution after (with horrifically sad music playing).
The only other more minor one is that no one wanted to cuddle with blanky in the clearing. Like... hes a blanket, why would you not want the warmth!?
it's not based on a true story it's animated and deana oliver was NICE about it
it's not based on a true story it's animated and deana oliver waa nice about it
This film still holds up today. It really shows how well the founder of Pixar understood the human mind/emotions with how well he's able to portray feeling without having to say much of anything...very well done.
didn't founder of Pixar, also piss off Robin Williams??
@@warllockmasterasd9142 Wait forget my previous one, it's late & I can't read. It was the previous CEO of Disney....something Burge who was a petty asshole & wanted things his way with no compromise. I don't think he had anything to do with Pixar.
@@warllockmasterasd9142 Funny thing is he went on to create DreamWorks after Disney fired his selfish ass but he still had those annoying tendencies. Shrek made fun of him with Lord Farquad being a caricature of him. Lord Farquad meaning Lord Fuckwad. XD
@@warllockmasterasd9142 This is the jerk your thinking of. ruclips.net/video/NbSGi--1Bfk/видео.html
I don't think he was ever involved with Pixar, thos guys are great....at least the OG staff was, not so sure now.
@@nintendogamer3227 lol
Executive Meddling: The film was supposed to have a proper theatrical release, and was the first animated film ever at Sundance, where it received rave reviews. It was destined to be a box office film for the Summer of 1987 when Disney bought the film, and intended to use it for their newly created Disney Channel. It was buried by the channel, and made it ineligible for Oscar nominations such as Best Original Score or Best Song. It then hobbled around the festival circuit, unable to find a distributor (thanks, Disney!), but it never found an audience until it was released on VHS, uncut and un-Bowdlerised. Lasseter remembers being thoroughly angry at the film's lack of a theatrical release.
I have this on laserdisc, do you know which version that was?
Sounds like corporate sabotage.
The Giant Magnet scares me as a kid 11:20
AH-HA! A fellow TVTroper! Also, I thought The Disney Channel would be older than '87.
Wait, what was cut from the broadcast?
This was one of my favorite movies as a kid. “It’s a B Movie” and “Worthless” are the best songs. I listen to them still to this day!
I always found the flower death scene one of the darkest in the film. It has no relation to anything else besides the ongoing themes of death and abandonement, but when the Toaster leaves the flower in the forest, it's so upset at being abandoned that it just straight up wilts and dies there and then and Toaster is just left to trudge away solemn and disturbed
It was after that scene that the Toaster was nicer to Blankey because she realized what loneliness could do.
@@ElfHostage How fitting that the finale’s song is named “Worthless” and is exactly as it says on the tin.
@wildfire9280 If you mean the song itself is worthless, then no. That was the hardest-hitting lyrical song in the movie from sheer despair alone, not to mention it showing the main cast the fate of unwanted appliances
4:30 not only does it linger on Kirby standing on that cliff, it also shows him backing away, implying that he was ready to leave them all for dead and then had a change of heart at the last minute
Maybe, but it seems more like that was the idea - he backs away and it looks like he's giving up on them, but he actually just needed to get up to speed.
This movie deserves more attention, especially since it was a precursor to the Pixar films (it had several Pixar people who worked on it) down to a lot of elements that would appear in the Toy Story films.
Toy story ripped off alot of the elements of this film their great in their own right but it's obvious
@@goreobsessed2308 well yeah because a lot of the same people worked on both films
@@MusicMan32K yep
I never watched this as a kid, but was a huge fan of toy story. I watched this like five years back and was baffled how it literally feels like the first three toy story movies in one, so many elements and setpieces are nearly identical
Ahhhhh maybe this is why I loved this film so much as a kid
"Worthless" is ironically for me the most memorable and best part of the film.
Really hits more and more as you get "older" and those around you see you as "worthless"
@@XSAGA87 “Jschlatt”
The Brave Little Toaster is actually one of my favorite animated movies of all time. I always found it incredibly charming, beautiful and creative, especially in its subtle moments. This is one classic that I always look forward to re-watching every once in a while.
it's really good but it's DEFINTIELY not a happy lil movie...that's one of the reasons it's so good
@@ghariiscool Not a "happy lil movie" in all senses of the word, no. But although it's the fault of the appliances for having set out in the first place which caused Rob to _nearly die in the junkyard _*_by being crushed to death,_* it does turn out well... For the appliances, Rob, and his then girlfriend who he later marries.
Ok, but seriously, "Worthless" is such a kickass song though.
Especially with the opening intro where a piano plays while a car is about to get picked up and tossed onto a conveyer belt that leads to a car crusher.
I still love that song lol
For me, "Worthless" is about how, despite whatever life we may lead and the experiences we have. At the end of life, we are all just dead bodies. Our identities, our history, means nothing in the end and instead of being referred to as him or her, we become a it. Which is a corpse.
So enjoy the life you have while you can. Because nothing lasts forever.
( This is only in regards to life, existence, and death. I'm not talking about anything else. )
The fact the compactor resembles a massive skull at the end of a conveyor belt that moves you closer towards its waiting jaws, combined with the magnet/crane(which could be seen as functioning as its hand, selecting those whose time has come), it's like a gigantic appliance grim reaper.
I think of that song every time I pass a junk yard.
Surprisingly, that song and all the others in this film were written by Van Dyke Parks, the lyricist for the Brian Wilson/Beach boys Smile album
Disney first offered this project to a young John Lasseter as a testing ground for his idea to have a traditionally animated film with computer-generated backgrounds. However, it later turned out that the company was merely keeping him busy until his contract ran out. After he pitched his storyboard, the heads told him point blank that they had no interest in computer animation unless it could be done faster or cheaper (and not-so-secretly resented his upsetting the old guard with his ambitions) and fired him on the spot. Luckily for him, Lucasfilms immediately took him on for their new computer graphics division and the rest is history.
LucasFilm? What did he do there, and when did he join PIXAR?
@@louisduarte8763 You do know that PIXAR used to be the computer graphics department at Lucasfilm, right? Lasseter was a founding employee after the buyout by Steve Jobs.
@@LazerWulf I forgot that part, but remembered Jobs having some hand in PIXAR in between times running Apple.
OMG I was about to say Toy Story recycled a LOT of ideas from this and now the dots are thoroughly connected in my head for historical context LOL! Didn't know Lasseter worked at Disney prior like Don Bluth as well.
That along with a Steve Jobs.
The darkest moment in "Worthless", in my opinion, is the last car (truck) to sing.
The magnet doesn't put him on the conveyor belt... He drives himself onto it.
I’m shocked he didn’t mention the part in the forest where the flower sees it’s reflection in the toaster. That is a genuinely sad scene
What makes the clown really scary is that he isn’t doing an over the top dramatic performance like Curry’s Pennywise would. He looks over the top evil, but he just says one thing in a whisper without moving his mouth. It’s the uncanniness of juxtaposing simple images with horrific implications that surrounds the film post this moment.
To quote the late great Norm Macdonald and something i'm sure every Toaster is thinking about is "Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there's always beer.”
I'm surprised Doug didn't mention anything about the flower scene. It's arguably the saddest and darkest moment in the film and is what makes Toaster treat Blanket nicer for the rest of the film.
The part where the flower falls in love with “another flower” (its reflection in toaster’s face) always messed me up a little. When he looks back and the flowers petals are falling off out of heartbreak. Even when I was little it made me feel super sad.
My adult interpretation of this is that the toaster talks several times about reflection in the film, and it's shown that Rob "the master" regularly enjoyed playing with his reflection in the toaster. As such, he always sees himself reflected in others.
There's another interesting theory as well someone else had. In the beginning of the film, the appliances are not really friends, but more like rivals with a common goal (to see Rob again). Even Toaster is mean to Blanket at the start. However, it isn't until the flower reflection scene that we see Toaster experience empathetic regret for the first time. The flower was healthy, and because of Toaster's reflection and rejection of the flower, it began to wilt. Immediately after this scene, Toaster becomes warm and kind to Blanket, saving him from the mice. Subsequently, the other appliances eventually perform selfless acts. Lampy lets lightning strike him so he can power the battery. Blanket uses his own body to form a shelter for the others. Kirby saves blanket from the tree and the others from the river.
@@indigothecat Continuing, the ultimate reflection near the end happens figuratively and literally right before Toaster throws himself in the gears of the machine. We, the viewers, literally see the gears turning in the reflection on Toaster as he decides he must throw himself into machinery.
@@101Volts OHHH, this comment took me way too long to understand. The gears were turning but it was pretty badly delayed.
@indigothecat The part about the flower making Toaster want to be nicer to Blanky was confirmed by the director Jerry Rees!
"Worthless" is effectively my deepest-seated nightmare set to music and animation. It effected me deeply to hear it as a kid and still does to this day.
That song might be the reason I keep repairing and maintaining my old cars rather than trade up to something newer. I don't ever want them to feel worthless.
I’ve never seen this movie (and never will) but I saw “Worthless”. I was afraid to watch this episode for two weeks because of that scene!
This film is so terrifying, it's got catchy musical numbers, and it shows a lot of messages all in one
In my opinion it has the potential to have been a part of Disney Animation
Or Pixar. In fact, the main characters feel a lot like Pixar characters, in that their personalities and flaws are based on the type of appliances they are. You got a reflective toaster who's people skills range from warm hearted to having a short temper, aka being prone to getting heated up. A blanket who's a big softie. A lamp who acts smarter, aka brighter, than he actually is. A radio who acts like an insecure DJ who hides his feelings behind a bunch of one liners. And a vacuum cleaner who also hides behind one liners, but in a passive aggressive. In other words, he sucks things in and never lets them out.
So fun fact: Both this film and the sequel were based on a series of children's books written by Thomas M. Disch. Disch was an award-winning science fiction author who wrote some extremely dark and dystopian books like 'The Genocides' and '334', so 'The Brave Little Toaster' was in some ways rather different from his usual work.
I read the story in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction." Didn't know there were books!
I think the scary moments show that while toaster is supposed to seem like he's the bland protagonist, he actually has his own fears and doubts. You don't usually see that from your protagonists in the late 80's-early 90's children's media. They are always supposed to have everything figured out, and always do the right thing, which is unrealistic. Not Toaster though, he's more complex.
And for me, the scariest moment was the junk yard worthless song. But not scary as in boo, just scary as in depressing, dark and sad. Everyone is supposed to live in kid's movies, not have hopes and dreams and then die. That and the little blender. Between him and the shoe from Roger Rabbit, yikes! But this is a great movie to show kids.
You'd think Toy Story with home appliances wouldn't scar children, but here we are.
it was the 80sx.
lmao
Toy Story was pretty scary not gonna lie. Baby Face terrified me as a kid.
Toy story was better than Brave little Toaster kinda cheesy but good movie for kids talking about appliances.
Home Appliance Story
Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: The film began production with an incomplete script and only two years to complete. Jerry Rees was writing the script as it was being recorded, and the animation staff had to regularly create a week's worth of footage in a day. Jon Lovitz had to record all of his dialogue in one 12 hour marathon session after he was cast on Saturday Night Live during production, forcing director Jerry Rees to fill in for the Radio in all of the musical numbers.
Your polling out tvtropes
Luckily Rees sounded EXACTLY like Lovitz.
@@jaggerguth4391 *you're
Please stop referencing TV Tropes, for crying out loud it's cringeworthy to do that.
"Worthless" is by far one of the best songs I've heard in an animated film, it's stuck with my ever since I first heard it as a kid.
Admittedly, I grew up in a classic car focused family, so maybe it stuck with me more than others?
I was 6 when this came out. To this day, 35 years later, if I walk into a place that has "Tutti Frutti" on a jukebox, I will play it.
Because of this movie.
I love how the writers essentially turned this film series into the Ernest films.
I'm so happy you covered this film still one of my fav films from my childhood.
'Worthless' is a great song about the meaninglessness of life.
Right next to 'Floating' from the sequel, a song about the bliss of death.
The repair shop and the junkyard (along with their respective songs) were always my favorite parts of the movie, even as a kid. The dark tones they portrayed really stood out from all the typical happy kid stuff you'd see in other Disney/animated movies, and I love it.
Plus, *B-Movie* and *Worthless* are just so damn catchy.
I think maybe the dream sequence is hinting at the darkest thing of all: the toaster was used in a suicide. Maybe that's why the master hasn't returned go the house in over ten years. This also adds an even more poetic element to the toaster's sacrifice: he saves a human life after being forced to take one in the past.
Wow. Just.. Wow. This is honestly so dark yet so brilliant. I would love to hear how you came up with this conclusion.
That makes a surprising amount of sense, considering how prevalent the theme of suicide is in this movie: The air conditioner going out in a rage due to being unable to move (disability). The flower and its reflection, believing someone finally liked it only to realize it was no one (depression). And the lamp and toaster both sacrificed themselves for the group, even though both of them did survive. Plus everything that happens in the nightmare are ways the toaster could hurt someone, like catching the house on fire, having a fork stuck inside, or being dropped into a bathtub.
So if it were any character, it would have probably been the dad. I remember a scene with the kid going to college talking to his mom, but I don't remember a dad. Plus the family straight up abandoned the house, likely around that time. I know it's just a theory, but it is certainly plausible. Also, the final song is called "Worthless," which is what many people feel before. And all the cars in the junkyard seem to have given up because I don't remember them fighting; they just sort of give in.
Actually, I think it’s more on Toaster’s fear of hurting someone. She (and I say this because the director of the movie saw her as feminine so don’t @ me for using a reliable source) was always trying to help the others find their master and try to make them happy, the dream itself was her subconscious fear of someone getting hurt because of her hence the forks and the water. Something that could easily hurt or kill a person if they get those in a toaster. I don’t think her fear originated from an accident prior to the master’s family abandoning the cottage for a decade.
@@shawntraub7249 wow thats really messed up....
This is much more interesting than all those "The hero is dead/in a coma" theories.
The air conditioner scared the hell out of me as a young one.
Me too. Here's something interesting Deanna Oliver was almost the one who voiced the character. Can you wrap your head around that? I'm not sure if I can after just reading it on IMDB
Yeah, the air conditioner and the scene where the magnet was stalking them through the scrapyard are the ones I remember as being the scariest.
I like how since Thurl Ravenscrowft is the vacuum, he just uses the exact same laugh he does in The Haunted Mansion, during the scene where they’re trying to scare the repairman 😂
This movie is pretty profound for me. I watched it several times as a kid and it did make an impression. But then when I re-watched it in college after not having seen it for 10+ years, it affected me so much and in such a heavy way that I cried heavy tears and was depressed for 3 whole days. The reason why is it's because I had so much empathy for these innocent little appliances traveling dozens of miles across all kinds of terrain, escaping certain death multiple times, all in the hopes of reuniting with what is essentially their adoptive father. You feel for them, root for them, you wish you you could hop in and help them on their way, but you can't do anything. And the constant fake-outs of "are they okay," "are they dead," "will they make it," just stabs at your heart and punches your gut over and over again.
It may not be a top-tier movie when it comes to animation quality; it had a modest budget compared to other Disney films. It may not be one of my favorite movies of all time; my top favorite animated movies are "The Castle of Cagliostro," "Rock & Rule," "Tiny Toons How I Spent My Summer Vacation," and "Slayers Return." BUT! This is the only film to ever affect me in such a powerful, life-altering way. And it is all thanks to Director Jerry Rees and the production team who created it. This film will always have my deepest respect.
While remembered fondly by many, I still think that this is a massively underrated film. The craft and dedication to all its aspects is incredible.
I like that you’re also doing films you like as well, probably because we need a break from the bad movies once in a while and not run dry.
The scene where Kirby the vacuum is standing all alone on the cliff before diving into the water struck me differently. I remember when I was a little kid thinking that he believed his friends were dead and he didn't want to go on without them, so he jumped in to die with them.
Whats ironic for me i once felt bad for the canibalization of these devices, yet i now work on old vacuums that we kind of have to use parts from old vacuums we have laying around. But they last decades longer then most of the modern flashy stuff.
In a way i think this was a story telling us as kids newer isn’t always better. Its okay to have old sentimental things.
I used to sell Aeres Electrolux vacuums they last forever and work far better then the cheap ones you have to buy every year
"it's a B Movie" is my one of favorite part of the whole movie, it went " let's do all the horror movie references that kids won't know shit about" and I love it. My other favorite part is worthless just because of how dark it is.
he he....he he he.
They can learn later, like I did. Not that I suppose all will, though.
Moral of the story is Kids stay home or else your Toaster will grow big Eyes and a Mouth and will hunt you down like he's the second coming of Toaster Rambo
I saw this when I was in kindergarten and all I remembered was the scene with the cars singing and getting obliterated. Now after rediscovering this movie, I now realize how dark the whole sequence really is. Man… I can’t believe what they let us watch back then.
DUDE! NC is reviewing “The Brave Little Toaster!” 😮
The scene with the animals toward the beginning always unsettled me because of the squirrels crowding around Toaster and the chipmunk trying to eat the picture of the Master that Blankie carried around. Even in the happy moments, there was always something twisted underneath.
Are we still sure this wasn't Red Skull ultimate plan to stop Captain America?
I won't Argue with anyone who gets scared by this movie, But I personally always felt that The Brave Little Toaster was more Depressing than Scary, like that fantasy sequence Blankie had was a Real Punch below the belt, and I'm surprised you didn't mention that scene with the Lonely Flower that ends up Getting the toaster to realize that he should be nicer to the blanket. But I'm glad that you acknowledged it's more rough tone as well as it's Few (Yet OVERLY effective) scary moments. Making this a shining example of Don Bluth's Philosophy of "Kids can handle just about anything you can throw at them, just so long as you add a happy ending to it."
P.S. The guy who wrote this movie would later go on to write some of Pixar's more Gut wrenchingly depressing movie moments as well!
That P.S. you included.....EXPLAINS EVERYTHING. xD
I came to the comments looking for a mention of the lonely flower scene. That scene made me so so sad as a kid, and maybe the first time I was sad for a non kid reason. The feelings of loneliness and longing and loss conveyed by that simple flower gutted me when I saw it, without me even really understanding why.
@@heatherchansler5886 Movies that deal with loneliness and loss are the best kind of movies and the movie we really, really, REALLY need.
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Here's another bit of dark, ironic trivia:
-The actor who voiced the Elmo (the guy who dismembered appliances to sell their parts) was also a co-director for Cars. Well as the Cars movie was being made he tragically died in a horrific accident where his car plummeted off a cliff and into a river
This reminds me a lot of Toy Story, even that "repair man" gives off Sid mixed with the toy collector guy from Toy Story 2.
I would love to see a freakshow cinema episode on The Boxtrolls. That movie caught me completely off-guard with how dark, disturbing and weird it was. I was expecting something cutesy and wacky, but instead got kidnapping, attempted child murder and a person exploding due to a cheese allergy.
I knew it be dark at times, but where that movie loses me are two characters: the villain and the love interest's father.
@@jeffbrehove2614 snatcher was a bit ridiculous and over the top at times, I agree, but I kinda liked his underlying storyline as an antagonist. There’s something seriously deranged about a man willing to murder a child in cold blood just to obtain his unhealthy obsession.
@@femkev.5245 Well it's not the demeanor I disliked. He wants something that he has no ability to understand or appreciate (cheese, the high society metaphor, he's tasted two different cheeses on camera, and yet describes them the exact same way), the cheese will kill him without his knowledge, and still he's willing to kidnap and kill to get it.
It's hateable for a villain to want something that's never theirs, but that feeling is compounded by how not self-aware they are to how clueless they are about it. It makes all the destruction they leave behind feel more empty.
At least this film makes me wish Jon Lovitz was in more better films cause man he was a huge underrated comedian during his time and this film is testament to that.
Brave Little Toaster turns 35!
I remember renting it so much as a kid
Odd that it's not on Disney +, maybe because of its history
Turns out animator John Lasseter originally pitched Brave Little Toaster as a computer-animated feature to Disney, which upset a studio executive so much that he fired Lasseter within minutes
Lasseter took the concept to Hyperion Pictures, which later released it as an independent production to positive reception
Lead to several sequels too
I agree you can admire the softer moments, the ones focusing on the loneliness of these appliances trying to get back to their master
There's a sense of harshness looming overhead
Charming characters and cute song numbers along with some really intense scary scenes
Even won a parents choice award and was a smash hit at the Sundance Film Festival
The Worthless song is very catchy
Smooth animation and on-point expressions
I heard the sequels weren’t very good
This guy is restoring The Brave Little Toaster. He got a copy of the film on 35mm film from Germany and put the original English audio over it. He recently uploaded the raw film scan of the whole movie here: ruclips.net/video/iAaabmic2pw/видео.html
The clown scene terrified me as a kid (to the point where I had to cover my eyes whenever it got to that part), but the scene where Kirby is left alone after his friends fell, presumably to their deaths, left such an impact on me. Your stomach drops and sinks as if it too was dropped by Kirby, and just the deafening silence left behind without music, only the roar of the waterfall, with a look of confused guilt and sorrow on Kirby's face really hits somewhere deep.
He spent the whole movie up to that point being gruff, dismissive and, to a point, cruel to his "friends", always talking about wanting to be left alone... but when he gets his wish and really is left alone, Kirby is finally forced to face how much his friends mean to him, and how afraid he is of actually being alone. On top of feeling like he's responsible for the apparent deaths of his friends. The way its edited is so genius and really drives home the lonely, raw emptiness of it all, it sticks with me to this day.
In many ways, this was the first PIXAR film, as most of that animation team got their start making this film. This wasn't even a Disney film at first, but an independent film made by ex-Disney employees. Then, after it appeared in a few film festivals, Disney picked it up for distribution, although it didn't make much of an impact until it was released on Home Video.
The only person who went to Pixar that worked on Toaster was Joe R. Not what I would call “most of the animation team”. John LaSS had nothing to do with making this film.
@@chrisw8417 Not with the making, but he brought the original novel to Disney where the ball started rolling, but all production work would be done outside Disney
@@van8ryan the main point was the ”animation team” didn’t go from Toaster to Pixar. Most went to Disney. I worked on the movie.
I absolutely LOVED this film when I was little.
After seeing it again a year or so ago, I was surprised how much they got away with back then.
There would be moral outrage from parents today.
Too bad more children films aren't like this.
"There would be moral outrage from parents today. "
No there wouldn't.
"Too bad more children films aren't like this."
What the HELL are you talking about? Nearly every children's film today is IDENTICAL to this. Have you not watched a single Pixar film, ever?
You're so wrong it isn't even funny
Nowadays you have preschool kids talking about Game of Thrones and Squid Game. Unfortunately, most of todays parents couldn't seem to care less.
Toy story 3 might had stolen a bit from this movie who knows.
@@Thespeedrap Stolen, no. This movie was Pre-Pixar, but it featured a lot of the people who worked at Pixar, so it's more of them just taking something from their own archives to use again in another movie. Not theft, just re-using.
Lest we forget the vacuum's "seizure" face. "Don't let him swallow his cord!"
And the A.C. unit is basically a traumatized P.T.S.D. vet that has an episode and winds up stroking out.
The herse and the wedding limo carried the same guy when he was left at the alter.
The "Native American" pickup truck decides to face death on his own terms and DRIVES HIMSELF onto the belt as the magnet is coming for him.
The indie racer car dies never even knowing where he placed in his life's biggest race. "I must admit I'm impressed that I did it, I wonder how close that I came!"
I am 31 years old, and because of the scene of Kirby eating his cord whenever I vacuum, I am hyper alert of the cord at all times.
Even back when I was a little little kid I never questioned why Hanover fist great great grandpa wasn't surprised about the appliances coming to life, I just assumed he was on hallucinogenics. At the time one of my favorite scenes of any movie was the trial of stern, I still have good memories about that.
I love how they just named the Toaster, Toaster
To be fair what else would a toaster be named
The vacuum was named Kirby, which I thought was interesting while admitting Vacuum would not have been much of a name I suppose 😀
A while back ago I interviewed Doug Walker with one of my good friends. I had to say Doug Walker has a well at least spoken voice and handles his self really professionally honestly and I know he said he didn't want to hear this but every time I watch a movie I hear Doug's voice in my head. And no I'm not crazy. Just a big fan of Doug
Watching this makes me miss the Dark Toons series. They made me appreciate animation as an art form like I never had before.
I remember watching animation horrors man that channel was creepy and surprisingly good.Cartoons growing up were great.Now it's all like WTF.
@Thespeedrap No it isn't "like WTF". There's been a quality animation renaissance (both TV and film) ever since the early 2010s, but you're not going to notice it if you judge the shows/movies by their shitty trailers/ads or by Boss Baby type movies.
I love watching this movie alot as a kid. The repair shop scared the apple juice out of me. The "Worthless" song sequence was my favorite.
Man this remake of Casablanca is a lot more darker than i thought it was.
Yeah and- wait. Casablanca?
Okay, despite being born in '92, I actually never got around to seeing this movie, like, ever. There were just too many other movies for me to check out.
But watching that electric blanket crying at 2:57 really struck something with me.
i seen it as a kid of 6 y/o in 1995 and `blanky crying all the time makes it a tough film to rewatch
You might find much more that strikes you well with the movie...
When I saw you made this video my first thought was “This man better not be slandering my boy Toaster.” I loved it whenever this movie came on tv growing up. I loved how dark and gritty it was. The junkyard song was an absolute bop.
Pretty sure this Toaster would later start a Punk Rock band.
Still kind of wished they had the Toaster hold a Gun.
The scene that scared me the most as a kid in this movie was when the air con unit had his breakdown. I found everything else freaky, too, but that scene... I don't know why, but it's the one that gave me nightmares, lol. XD
I think one of the darkest moments is in the Worthless song, when one of the cars actually outruns the magnet - only to drive himself onto the conveyer belt and into the crusher ON PURPOSE, essentially committing suicide, preferring to die on his terms rather than helplessly dropped into it by the magnet.
Yeah, that was crazy.
Despite remembering that there were some dark moments, I legit don't remember anything else about this movie. really goes to show how much of an impact they had. nothing about this stuck with me, but the dark moments..... a distant remembrance.
I'm pretty sure the Toaster when on this journey because Frankenstein pranked call him.
You forgot to mention one scene in the movie where while they’re in the forest, the toaster is spotted by a flower. The flower sees its reflection and when he backs way from it, it withers from realizing it’s alone. The way it died made Toaster look at Blanky differently and tried to show more appreciation for him especially with how he felt thinking only the master really loved him.
The scene that still sticks with me (and I haven't seen this movie in YEARS) is the Toaster's death. It was so dramatic and "gruesome" (as gruesome as a smashed toaster can get.) I can even remember the noise it makes.
And the scene where they lose the blanket in the storm and the lamp electrocuted himself to light up the trees.
This movie was great, but man was it fucked up (In the best way!). I wouldn't be surprised if newer horror/thriller/suspense directors were inspired by it.
6:09 I’d likely already give this a like, but a Frasier meme definitely gets it. That show should really be used for more memes
I was looking for this comment! I love that clip of that moment from the episode they put in there too. 😂😂
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My theory is that the customer got abducted by aliens and remembers every detail of it.
That experience was so amazing and mind blowing that seeing everyday appliances coming to life doesn’t faze him in the slightest and pales in comparison.
Just a fun thought I had with a random character that helps lengthen the laughs.
Given that the third movie has a plot similar to what you're saying, it makes sense.
It's obvious that his mind isn't quite all there but I never really stopped to think why that was. Senility, plain old simple-mindedness, shock or just having experienced so many unnatural things that one more event didn't distract him from the fact that his radio still needed parts.
Man, I used to watch your videos all the frickin time back in late high school. I stopped watching a few years back for whatever reason, but I've been jumping back in the last few days and honestly I kinda wish I'd not stopped watching. You guys still have a lot of talent
I forgot how freaking scary this film was so scary! A moment I always remember is the scene of the flower alone in a glade. It sees it's reflection in the toaster and thinks it's finally not alone. Then the toaster leaves, and a petal falls like a tear.
Jesus... That stayed with me.
One of my all-time favourite movies of my childhood. I remember watching The Brave Little Toaster many times and loving the hell out of the charatcers and songs, especially catchy 'Worthless' and remembering the lyrics. Cheers for reviewing this treasure, Critic! :D
I remember the air conditioner scene would scare the shit out of me as a kid - to the point where I wouldn't be surprised to learn from my mom or others that I had at least temporarily developed a fear of air conditioners.
Now at age 30, I am obsessed with the "Worthless" song and junk cars scene. God, that could be a perfect short film all on its own.
I'd run out of that room during that scene lol just couldn't handle it.
@@SukiNoKoe Don't blame you, it's absolute nightmare fuel. :P
You forgot that depressing scene where the flower that was growing in the secluded area, and thought finally they had a companion when they saw their reflection in the toaster, kills itself from loneliness. It literally had nothing to do with anything. But was just utterly depressing.
The ladybug fainting joke killed me. It was perfect!
More seriously, though, this was one of my quiet favorites as a kid. I felt no guilt or shame, I just didn't talk about it a lot because most of my friends didn't see it. The darker bits are, indeed, the parts I remember best and I agree that "Worthless" is the best of the film's songs. It certainly isn't the greatest kids movie ever, but it was different and holds fond memories for me.
I do remember watching this at least once, its good, the animation is nice the story is nice, its just a very pleasant movie, it may not be an all time classic, but it is definitely worth a watch. You’re right it DOES get intense that but that doesn’t stop it from being a good movie for children
i'd emphasize that it's good BECAUSE it gets intense, kids movies are way better when they're not walking on eggshells to not scare anyone, kids like to be scared, i'm proof of that being an 80s kid.
this film blew my mind as a kid, interested to hear what Doug thinks of the sequels.
wait... sequels PLURAL?? i only know of the Mars one.
@@UltimateGamerCC There was also The Brave Little Toaster To The Rescue, the confusing thing is Mars is canonically the third film in the series yet it was actually released before Rescue for some reason, which leads to a plot hole as the computer Wittgenstein was introduced in Rescue so when many kids saw his character appear in Mars they were confused as to why the characters knew who Wittgenstein was without any introduction whatsoever.
@@jadedheartsz hmm, that IS odd...
Mars was great but the rest was eh.
Something that I've realized is that over the years the effects and intro's for nostalgia critic have changed, getting better and better as the show gained more and more of a following. However, the intro for freakshow cinema has stayed the same. I kind of like it. Its like looking into the past everytime I see it.
The scene that always stuck with me (unless I imagined it?) is when the vacuum cleaner goes crazy and starts eating his own power cable...
I think the voice cast kind of knew it was silly but just decided to just roll with the idea and see what they would come up at the finish line and honestly i really think this voice cast stole the show and did a incredible job! Sure you might have been still scared from this film because this film is really freaking scary like super scary for kids and probably even adults but in my opinion what takes it over the edge and seals the deal is this voice cast if they had just decided to go the silly goofy route we maybe would of gotten something that maybe just made you nostalgic with still some really scary moments but because the cast really leans into this idea and makes it something special and so unique i think that's why it still just holds up as just a scary WTF 80's film.
It honestly wouldn't surprise me if this Toaster is Mario's cousin
Just now watched this movie for the first time. How the hell did I miss this when I was growing up?!? I mean, I've heard of this movie before but without this review probably would've gone my whole life without seeing it.
Thanks, Doug!
The clown scene was the scariest to me when I was a kid; When I look back at this whole film as an adult though, it was much darker than I remembered it to be, and not just because of the clown
I don’t know why but it never freaked me out as a kid
@@darthgoldustgamingandvlogg8674 As a kid, the "Worthless" scene didn't register to me, because I didn't realize what was happening. Other parts like the AC yelling and almost killing himself, though...
@@101Volts I completely forgot about the AC until I watched this review
I absolutely adore this film but haven't seen it in decades. I don't remember much from this film - the clown scene, the appliances leaving the house - but I do remember it having one of my favourite scenes in my history of film, one that really touches to me personally, that contains a one very specific interaction with a lone daffodil. As a kid I didn't think too much of it, being the innocent happy-go-lucky youngster that I was, but as an adult with a firmer grasp on reality it spoke to me in a language I desire never to be spoken in again.
Wow, you’re finally reviewing Brave Little Toaster! That movie I used to watch a lot in elementary school, this movie was also the inspiration for Toy Story, because lot of the Pixar people worked on this movie! Also that clown and the junk yard scene is so creepy!
As a kid I saw this movie on VHS a lot. I loved it and I still do. The only scenes I remember scaring me was the scene with the blender, when the master almost got squashed, and when Toaster got torn apart. I'm not scared of clowns and everything else was mostly morbid fascination. A few years ago I saw the movie on DVD and I decided to revisit it as an adult. My jaw dropped more I thought it would. I told a friend of mine this movie is darker than I remember. I mean the air conditioner "dies" from a mental breakdown, the toaster has that nightmare that ends with him falling into a bathtub, the blanklet gets sucked into the darkness by a storm, the lamp's face blows up via lightning strike, the vacuum has a mental breakdown where he does the equivalent of biting his tongue off, the quicksand scene, the blender's horrific fate and how the radio almost suffered the same, and of course everything that happens at the dump. My friend thought I was overthinking it, the characters are just appliances. Yeah, but they're alive. What if they could bleed? This movie wouldn't be family friendly then.
When I was a kid, I had a nightmare around this movie. And no, it wasn't the clown, I thought that was just "wtf...?" unlike the storm that followed. THAT was what scared me when I had a childhood fear of storms. I remember the image greatly. Night time, green behind black sky with Lightning and creepy ambient sounds. Kept me from this movie for years