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Do you remember watching the Brave Little Toaster as a little kid? have you watched it recently?
Well you should I mean if you're a young adult, maybe about college age
It's the perfect time for you to give it another look considering
You're its target audience. (what you didn't know that?) oh, yeah
The Brave Little Toaster an
Animated story about an adorable team of house appliances is going on an epic and musical journey to seek out their master
It's not a kid's film. I know you think I'm kidding role the title card. I'm ready to ruin childhood
Sure on the surface
It seems innocent enough
But a lot goes down in this film that a lot of kids probably don't pick up on and I'm not talking about in jokes
I'm talking about content. That's deep, dark, edgy, and even a little morbid
Yeah, but okay. There's a decent amount of dark animated films out there
What sets this one apart from those? well to start if you put on a movie like Say
Coraline for example you can get a feel from the beginning that you're about to watch something a little edgier
Coraline has the doll and the gangly hands made of needles completely taking it apart
which could be very disturbing to a child who loves dolls or sees dolls a sentient things the scene has a sickly green color to It
the lullaby with the pretty gibberish lyrics are playing. it's a great opening!(JK)
But you know a few kids probably tapped out already because it's you know "creepy" this isn't a bad thing by any means
It's just clearly communicated from the start that it's not going to go easy on you like say Disney films
Eh.. Most Disney films. by the way to clear any confusion The Brave Little Toaster is not a Disney film
Not really :(. Disney pay for the home video release and for the rights to play it on Disney Channel which provided a decent chunk of
The tiny budget that this movie had but other than that it was an independent movie there was no big company telling them what they
Could and could not put in so with no real rules the result is that being very
"Experimental"
With no attachment to any studio you have to ask "What could they get away with?" the short answer "a lot" the long answer
Well
Run
You'll love The Brave Little Toaster a fabulous musical journey
That's sure to delight everyone (BULLSHET)
Going Back to What I Said About Your First Impression Of A Dark Film
Granted The Brave Little Toaster's opening credits are a little spooky with a dark forest and slightly ominous music
There's an abandoned cabin in the woods, not a human in sight :O
But then tutti fruitti plays so everything's fine look at them all dancing and having a good time together :D (Yay)
Look at how cute they all are look at how nice and fun this adventure is going to be by this point you might start
to think that your favorite childhood movie
It's just a harmless baby film with bouncy talking objects, and maybe it's not gonna hold up that well
But then we meet the air conditioner these appliances have obviously been abandoned in this cabin, but they haven't given up
Hope that their young master will one day return to them the air conditioner tells them. That's BS
Not literally, but he does say this to the vacuum.
"Hey I'm real scared there Kirby. What are ya gonna do? Suck me to death?"
Hehe Sorry
The conversation goes south and the AC gets, well there's no better word for it TRIGGERED when someone calls out that he's stuck
In a wall (My Boi You Just Got ROASTED), and well he totally flips out and dies on screen
there's his corpse on the wall for the rest of the scene our heroes are heartbroken
Poor Air Conditioner :(
I Didn't know he'd take it so hard well.
Well he was a jerk anyway
Or not, what the hell movie? all right forget that jerk am I right? It's time to go on an adventure!
They have a silly montage. You're trying to figure out how they're going to travel
They sang a lovely song about their journey and look now. They're in a beautiful meadow with flowers and cute little animals look
They're making friends even Toaster seems to have found a friend with this flower
How sweet the flower thinks toaster is a flower because it sees itself in its reflection
But I guess it came on too strong because it falls in love with toaster scaring it off
Well I hope that flower is okay. Oh, it's heartbroken and wilting basically dying
Huh where did that come from?
Why was it needed it always wondered about that?
Well fun fact the flower is the same shade of yellow as blankie (IDGAF)
So far In The Movie The characters Have Been Kind Of Pushing Blankie Away, Because Frankly Its Annoying (Agreeable)
According to an interview I found with the director of the film
Jerry Reiss, this moment is to symbolize that if they keep rejecting blankey it too will wilt away
so they should be nicer to him and from this point on the toaster is nicer. geez that's the kind of read in between the
Lines material you do in school oh, no, this is too scary for kids
It's HOMEWORK!
moving along the toaster has a nightmare not much to say about that
I think it was pretty justified the audience needed to know that toasters are afraid of getting stuck with forks and
Getting dropped into bathtubs while plugged in and firemen demon clowns from hell (Oh Shiet Pennywise)
Let's be fair aren't we all um after that scene yes, yes, we are
Can I have a change of pants please? How's everyone else handling their adventure?
Oh look Kirby Is having a seizure or a panic attack or
something, look my guess is as good as yours folks. actually! the book has a really long-winded explanation about this scene but
Ahh
Details. we're talking about the movie and the impression it leaves on children and what does it give them? No explanation or warning just?
shock
Confusion and a little bit of horror, but don't worry kids
Yay! :'D
Fast-forward a bit and the group is all tied together by their cords and because Kirby is too heavy to pull they all get dragged
Down one by one into quicksand. Yeah, okay, well movie over. They're all dead
No, they all get picked up by this dude and taken to his parts shop. What does that mean for appliances?
they're all about to get dismembered so their innards can get sold away for $5.95
as demonstrated by this
terrifyingly gruesome sequence of the shop owner
Operating on and pretty much murdering a blender for its motor, complete with some bloody looking oil dripage once
It's all over great now. It's a horror movie or what the creepy appliances in the shop call it a b-movie
I didn't sign up for this!! gotta admit the songs cool, though
I honestly like to see a group of people reenact this in live-action
Like a human version I bet you the result will be utterly terrifying
Speaking of anybody a little disturbed how they all just start levitating at the end? Ah Yes! Satanism now for the whole family
Let's skip all the way to the movies finale besides those modern appliances
Are jerks and nobody likes those scenes, the main squad gets thrown away into the garbage by their masters replacements for them
And we end up in the junkyard this junkyard scene is
the most
Brutal thing I have ever seen in a g-rated animated film. you can spend a whole video
Analyzing this part. Let me break it down the junkyard is like a graveyard for Inanimated objects
Yes, this Junkyard is filled with cars. What happens to cars in the junkyard. They get smashed into nothing these cars talk
Let me introduce you to what I call car
Genocide. this gigantic magnet picks up cars one by one dropping them onto a conveyor belt rolling them away onto a horrific
crushing, DEATH
Ow
Most of the cars are out of commission so they try to get away
But it's useless
there's even a very haunting shot from inside one of the cars as its wheel is
Turning trying to steer off the belt
and as this is happening a song titled "worthless" plays and every line sung is a different cars thoughts and words before it's
Executed some of it is incredibly depressing like this one who says
How about this hearse says it's quite hard enough to live with the stuff
I have learned, but the most shocking one of all is the last car
We've seen every car up to this point get picked up by the magnet and then dropped on to the belt
But the magnet approaches this last car and it drives away yet in the next shot
It's nicely parked on the belt in front of the Smasher
About to die so that car basically just went "No bitch, if I'm going to die today
It'll be by my choice" and drove away from the magnet off of its junk pile and onto the conveyor belt himself
Suicide, and his last words bitterly describe how his owners were happy to say "you're worthless"
Oh, and then his car guts go flying everywhere one of them even landing on our hero's
Cute, the scene ends with our group of appliances reuniting with their master now all grown up
But not before the magnate tries to murder him isn't somebody operating that thing
But wait toast your sacrifices itself to save him by jumping face-first into the gears
Yikes, do I really need this lovely shot of our adorable main character getting freakin mangled by this thing I get it I get it
You're a brave little toaster
You have earned your title
But everything's gonna be okay the master fixes it buffs out those scratches bangs out those dents and the toaster totally works again
Happy Ending!!
*fake cough* ...bullshit
Sorry don't cut that out because I called it on it's bullshit. All right
That was a lot, but do you see what I mean?
this movie is loaded with disturbing scenes for a
G-rated film it got away with murder
Literally look at the death count! so we came into this with the argument that this is a film not for kids
Now that we've laid out all the evidence is it
Surprisingly we actually do have a straight answer to this question earlier. I mentioned an interview with the director, Jerry Reiss
It's about an hour long, and if you're a fan of the movie. I highly recommend you watch it
It's up on YouTube you learn a lot about how the Brave Little Toaster was made right down to the budget animation voice recording
Everything up until the movie's release in the interview
He was asked if there's any kind of theatrical release there wasn't
However, he explained that the producer wanted to show evening screenings at film festivals saying kids would like it
But this is more for the college and young adult crowd and not just that it has stated multiple times in this interview that
Making a kids film was not their intention
They were dedicated to make something they were proud of rather than simply producing a kid's film
They never saw it as a kid's film therefore The Brave Little Toaster is not for kids
I was scared of a lot growing up and the worst thing to sit through in this movie was the air-conditioners rant
It's not until I got older that I looked at it again and thought my mom
Let me watch this, but that's what makes it kind of cool
It's a G film for young adults that didn't have to get all gory and mean-spirited
And inappropriate well at least not in the way that we're used to in adult cartoons oddly enough
It's a lot like real life a lot of not-so-great stuff could be going on and depending on your age
You might not realize it, and if you do recognize that something's wrong
You might not fully understand it that got pretty deep anyway look at this conspiracy a four main appliances out of five
Mostly because I hate blankie and he can stay out of this, so what do you guys think of this movie is it
What you remember it to be? if you watched it recently
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