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Better Late Then Never

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Its often brought up how a lot of childhood movies are surprisingly dark. Most of the claims are a bit exaggerated, but The Brave Little Toaster truly is a bit morbid. I know friends who were afraid of it as kids! At its heart, its not an important tale. A boy leaves his favorite appliances behind, and they want to find him. You've got the friendly, confident toaster, a tough vacuum, a shy electric blanket, an unconfident lamp, and a snappy radio. They're not complex, but they're likable, and have their moments.Two things prevent it from being a typical children's movie. First of all, as I said, its pretty dark. It has loneliness, nightmares, and what's essentially death. Its not a horror film by any means, but it does have some creepiness to it. Secondly, its musical numbers are quite catchy. When these are combined together, you've got the song "Worthless". Its one of the best songs I've seen in a movie, and makes the film "worthy" alone.I wouldn't call it great, but for a kid's movie about a toaster, its very watchable. If you're in the mood, its a nice movie to watch once.

In a cottage on the outskirts of town in the woods, a bunch of appliances (radio, air conditioner, vacuum, lamp, electric blanket and toaster), are all eagerly awaiting the return of "Master", a little boy who travels to the cottage during the summer with his family. After the air conditioner commits suicide because the other appliances make fun of him for not missing Master, they reluctantly leave the safety of the cottage to find Master, in a journey filled with unexpected danger where new commercial items like CD players and Laserdisk players (new at the time), are quickly replacing older items in the big city. Unknown to the group of outdated appliances, Master has gone to college and comes back to get his items from the cottage, and upon finding that they're missing he searches for them, leading up to a suspenseful rescue at a garbage dump that reunites everyone.I personally loved this movie, especially how it shows that new isn't always better (I think texting is also a great example, ugh). I also love how the animators brought the appliances to life, personifying them as sentient beings (my favorite was the radio). However, in doing so, several very disturbing situations are created within the film.The situation famous as being extremely creepy is when the toaster has a nightmare involving an evil clown with a fire hose (water wrecks electrical appliances). Clowns are creepy enough on their own but put them in a kid's movie, while the clown tries to murder the toaster, and that's a freaky scene. Another freaky scene is the radio's 'organ harvesting', where the radio is squeezed in a vice and has its inside components removed while it calls for help. The air conditioner's suicide, the lamp getting struck by lightning, the car crusher in the garbage dump, the Vincent Price hanging lamp and the vacuum nearly drowning are all very disturbing scenes, and to a child they could be very frightening. I should know, I was six when I first got this movie and it freaked me out for three years or so.That being said, the soundtrack, especially the songs "B-Movie" "Cutting Edge" and "Worthless" are both amazing, as are the voice actors. The plot is very original, based on a children's novel that differs greatly but still keeps the essential plot points. Overall, it's a pretty great movie, if you get the chance, check it out.

It's been a while since I've seen The Brave Little Toaster. Probably since I was under 10, so around 15+ years ago. It was always a favorite of mine and whenever I talk with people about favorite childhood flicks, The Brave Little Toaster is always brought up, whether by me or someone I'm with. So when I had the opportunity to re-watch it, I sprang to the chance. And not surprisingly it's still a fantastic movie.The story of Toaster, Kirby (Vaccum), Lamp, Radio, Blanket and their journey to find their Master. Their Master was a little boy who used and cared for them. After years have passed with time and time again of disappointment the five friends travel the country-side and try to conquer amazing obstacles. Only their friendship, and the willingness to find their master is their only hope of making and surviving the arduous journey.As I watched it, it was remarkable that I remembered almost every single scene as it played out. With social commentary (which I had no clue about back then), emotional scenes (the flower and it's reflection) and even scary as heck clowns (probably a big reason IT scared the heck outta me as well), the flick delivers an unbelievable amount of entertainment. And I haven't even talked about Phil Hartman, the songs, John Lovitz and the amazing humor.Back when I was watching Secret of the NIMH, Transformers, He-Man, The Care Bears, Fraggle Rock etc. only a few do I always consistently mention as being timeless classics and without a doubt, The Brave Little Toaster is one of the best and one of my favorite children animations flicks of all time.

To my memory, this was one of the first animated movies I grew up with as a child. And it's still as moving, powerful and entertaining now, as it was when I was young.TBLT is one of the most underrated movies that I've ever seen,and it's such a shame that it doesn't get the recognition it deserves, especially with a mediocre rating on Rotten Tomatos. The movie may seem to be a typical animated movie; with cutesy scenes and diverse characters for the kids, and that humor that it seemed only our parents would get. But that's not true at all. Just like how this may have been my first animated movie, it was also my first adult movie. This is one of the first and probably one of the few or only animated movie I've seen that was very complex and had a lot of depth to it. For "kids" standards, this was a very dark movie.Two scenes that seems to stick with a lot of people is the "death" of Air Conditioner, who overheats after being ridiculed by the other characters because their master never played with him and when one of the main characters, Lampy sacrifices himself to recharge their dead car battery during a lightning storm.But for me, one of the most memorable and most touching, moving and saddest scene is the infamous flower scene; where Toaster is in behind a shrub and sees a lonely flower under a bright light. The flower mistakes Toaster's reflection for another flower and falls in love with it. After Toaster tells the flower that its only a reflection, the flower dies before Toaster's eyes.All of these scenes (Especially the flower scene) are made even more touching and moving thanks to the beautiful music by David Newman. When we aren't being taken away by beautiful score; we're being entertained by fun and crazed songs such as "More", a song that screams the 1980s about how technology becoming obsolete. "Worthless", a song highlighting the accomplishments and failures of junkyard cars before their deaths and "City of Light", which plays as Toaster and the others are making their way to the city to find their master,Rob.Thomas Disch, the author of the book passed away 2008; but his work and legacy lives on. Thank you Mr.Disch for shaping my childhood.