I've always loved how the sing about being cutting edge modern tech is being sung by a bunch of devices that were outmoded and obsolete only a few years after this film came out, while the main appliances are all timeless and could theoretically be useful even nowadays.
Except for lamps, those will always be timeless. But yeah, the rest is ironic. My smart phone can replace some of the other appliances. Be a small tv, play music and act like a phone (duh)
It took me a few watches of this movie to understand the importance of the dying flower scene. Toaster realizes that by rejecting others that are lonely and need companionship deeply hurts them. Even kills them. Right after this scene Toaster becomes much much nicer to blanket. Its nice character development for Toaster.
And Toaster telling Lampy about how good it feels to look out for and help someone else feel good Convinces Lampy to risk his life to repower the battery for the others
Trigger Warning: I see it as being aware of another person's struggle with mental health issues and depression. Just being more open and compassionate without being overbearing to the person. It's very dark, but that is how I interpret the scene. I've felt like a wilted flower alot in my life, but luckily I have good friends who help me get through the day. I'm very lucky.
@@phoebevaughan5095 Definitely a good point! It also shows how important boundaries and being compassionate/empowering others to have genuine self-care are important too (in a perfect world, everyone should be able to help others with mental health struggles - but sadly, some people are not equipped to handle taking on someone else's mental health issues, especially if they're compromised themselves and/or their emotional bandwidth gets too drained to be effective).
The voice of the Vacuum Cleaner, (Thurl Ravenscroft), aka Tony the Tiger and singer of the original "You're a Mean One, Mr Grinch" also provided the lower voice for "Grim Grinning Ghosts" from the Haunted Mansion ride. One of the singing busts on the ride, is in fact Thurl himself.
5:16 In the book this is based on, this moment is actually even darker! 😬 Apparently, the flower actually asks the toaster to uproot him, because he’s tired of living in this isolated spot!
The movie of my childhood When i was little i was at my grandparents house all the time because my parents were at work and i remember watching this movie so much, it was a daily thing for me and one day i even watched it twice in a row
That’s exactly what I did. I loved this movie and I’d watch it with my grandparents while my parents were at work. I also watched the 2 movies after it.
It still amazes me how well this movie handled its atmosphere, especially when the music gets either calm or eerie, or when there's complete silence. That really gives this film about living objects an interesting edge.
It's one of my favorite childhood movies even though some sequences could be very scary like other Disney movies they have lots of "DARK MOMENTS" that wasn't kid friendly. It's beautifully animated all thanks to the late Joe Ranft. You got to admit it, it's what I called NOSTALGIA ENTERTAINMENT! Nice vid, guys.
Trauma indeed. BLT is one of the movies I saw as a kid, and remember it traumatizing, vaguely remembering it was scary clown dressed as a fireman, or something in between the two, but couldn't remember exactly. I just knew as I grew I never wanted to watch it again lol.
That's the best part about the song cutting edge- the cutting edge has moved so far away from where it was when this song was written that watching these ancient appliances sing it is insanely hilarious. One separate note, it's thanks to this movie that I hate getting rid of my old cars, because I always remember the sad broken cars singing as they're crushed alive
Well, damn. Saber managed to ruin the 'A.C. repaired' scene. It takes a special kind of effort to mess with a scene that has no dialogue, but it figures it would be possible after being around the block for as long and as far as Saber has gone. Godspeed, Phil Hartman!
Everything he wanted… *and more*… the eternal agony of an appliance and in this case a cartoon, immortally in a constant cycle of being broken, fixed, and voiced by the now deceased Phil Hartman… all to be watched in a recycled state of video by human eyes.
the book was a plea from the author to children to learn not to become wasteful. to humanize their belongings in hopes they would take care of them, and not create a wasteful consumer culture. there's the real tragedy of the movie.
This is my absolute favorite movie I know like most of the lines and all of the songs 😂 Even though this came out in like 1987 wayyyy before I was born (I’m a 2000s kid) this still is one of my favorites if not THE favorite ❤
This movie is so fucked up in retrospective. I love it. The scene with the crusher legit gave me nightmares when I was a kid, even more so than the clown.
I thought I was the only one who got nightmares from the junkyard but not the clown. I'm not afraid of clowns. What's funny is that I didn't remember that part at all so probably as a kid, I wasn't phased by it.
I'm in a bit of a Brave Little Toaster mood as of late, so it's interesting to watch these videos and see what people thought of various scenes of the movie. For me, it's not so much that I thought movie was "too scary" or anything, my lasting memory of this movie is how it yanks you around emotionally from scene to scene. Stuff like the Air Conditioner blowing himself up, the flower falling in love with Toaster's reflection then wilting when Toaster ran off, Toaster's nightmare followed up by Blanky flying away and Lampy getting struck by lightning, everyone but Kirby falling down a waterfall, everyone sinking into the mud one-by-one, everything at Elmo St. Peters' part shop, and of course everything at the junkyard, it just felt like every other moment there was something shocking, scary, or sad happening, it was an emotional roller coaster. Of course, as an adult, I now respect a lot of these scenes and their role in the story, in particular the flower scene; it took me an embarrassingly long time (i.e. until a few days ago) to realize that scene is important because it's the inciting incident that made Toaster decide to be more supportive and considerate to Blanky, when previously Toaster wasn't above being rude and dismissive towards him. It's character development, something that went over my head as a kid. In the end, I suppose the best way to summarize the affect The Brave Little Toaster is something Don Bluth once said, or rather I think he said, that kids will put up with a lot of sad or scary stuff so long as there's a happy ending, and Toaster, Blanky, Lampy, Radio, and Kirby certainly earned their happy ending by the time their Master takes them off the college.
There's quite a few differences between this movie and the story it's based on...one big one is the new modern appliances aren't actually the mean spirited characters they are in the movie, in the story they are actually rather friendly to the older appliances.
I never got a chance to watch this as a kid, closest I got was a trailer on a vhs tape. That being said, I did hear a lot how it traumatized people as kids and recently wayched it for the first time Since it was an older movie (and hearing about the aforementioned trauma), I kept expecting the appliances to die along the way and for the toaster to be the last one left. Made for a fun viewing experience
THE BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER!!! This movie is a staple of my childhood! I watched it constantly and I was introduced to it at a really young age, so the movie gave me nightmares a lot. But I always kept coming back to it even though it scared me. The junkyard scene with the "Worthless" song changed my life. It's the first time I ever really contemplated death as a child. If you listen to each of the cars lyrics they all tell a story of how they lived thier lives before they were taken to the junkyard. Some were happy, some were miserable, some had ups and downs. The Reservation truck commits suicide because it doesn't want the evil magnet to have the satisfaction of capturing and killing him. What a fucking badass movie!! Also fun fact this isn't a Disney production, it was created by a bunch of indie artists that would later go on to found Pixar Studios. The original intention was to make this movie for college students, not children, which is why there is so much scary and downright terrifying imagery in this film.
I never realized there was more than one little toaster movie. Growing up I only ever saw little toater to the rescue. Took me a second to realize this wasn't that.
This movie was so good! I loved it. Especially the musical segments. I remember every song in this one! :D It was always a blast! And you should listen to the German version of this. The voices are way more in tune to the specific characters in it, than it was with the English version :D
You know it took me until my adult years to figure out that I think the towel is just a towel with like a sentient piece of soap for a head. And I just went my entire childhood. Not really knowing what it was
I wasn't sure why this movie looked so familiar but I swear when I saw the blanket character I knew for sure. I always (and still kind of do) feel so bad for that character at times. Which is sort of funny because of my difficulty with emotion due to autism. But the part where he said "I'm not afraid" while being sucked down to his death was beyond depressing. Idk, I have a hard time feeling anything for anyone but I feel bad for a cartoon. Go figure.
I remember I watched this cartoon movie with hungarian dub in my childhood at one of many commercial TV channels. I liked the story and the music. 🙂 I saw a few scenes which are nowadays the most terrifying scenes for kids. The one is the firefighter clown with his yellow teeth, the other is the car crushing scene inside the junkyard.
I vaguely remember this movie from some long gone recess of my brain from when my family first moved into my current house a decade and a half or so ago; my younger siblings watched it like once and I forgot it existed until I saw the video title
This movie is the kind of movie that left test executives confused and just had no idea how to help the filmmakers fix it and just threw it out in theaters.
The one with the animals seems to have been the second film produced, and is the second in the timeline, but for some inexplicable reason, the Mars one was the second to come out.
It’s so cool to finally see a video on Tblt from you!! My absolute favorite movie ever, I’ve been wanting you to do some kind of commentary / review forever! And this video made me laugh really hard lmao
Kevin Richardson who was a animator of the movie actually comments on the RU-vid video for the song ‘City of Light’ and talks very positive working of the movie.
the scenery of this movie looks so good bro do you agree mr saberspark like that kid who jumped out of his car he looks like where’s Waldo but dyed his hair red 💀
This was my favorite movie when i was younger, the air conditioner dieing and the car junk yard will always haunt me.. Ps as far as i know this is the only movie ever that the third movie was released before the second movie even though they started the second movie first . the third movie was done in 3D and the second movie was done in 2D so the second movie took about a year longer to finish than the third movie
I remember watching this movie as a kid and that's it. But based on this synopsis, it seems like the appliances were abandoned after the people moved because they thought their house was haunted. The appliances later show up with no explanation and the human decides that they can't let them be destroyed since they are obviously cursed.
What is Blanky's true size? I questioned this as a kid. Some scenes he is the size of a baby blanket. Then that one scene, he used his body to make a comfortable sized tent that even fit Kirby under him
Yeah I place a lot of sentimental value in inanimate objects, and I always thought it was just how I am, but looking back on it I did watch a ton of Toy Story 1 and 2 and The Brave Little Toaster (I also saw the second one but only once I think). Maybe they played a bogger role than I thought...
@@KayKorTeeVee Yes but I didn't have that one at home and it released much later than the first two. I have seen the third one, but I didn't watch it uncountably many times as a toddler like I did the first two, as by the time Toy Story 3 was released I was no longer a toddler.
@roxassora2706 It was made by fox animation but Disney owns them now and thus owns the rights to this movie. But owning the rights does NOT mean that they made it of course.
I can't believe that you guys skipped over the radio's line:" We'll all be Cannibals in a few days, I've seen it happen!". First thing I thought of was "just how many Disney characters is Alastor based off off?!!"
That poor guy did nothing wrong, he didn't know electronics were sentient. If the appliances didn't keep it a secret, it'd solve a lot of their problems...
