The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
Directed by Jerry Rees
A group of dated appliances, finding themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold, decide to seek out their eight year old 'master'.
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Pixar likely borrowed the premise from Thomas M. Disch’s The Brave Little Toaster: Objects once prized lose their newness and become disposable.
I guess it’s a good thing that “The Brave Little Toaster” was also a Disney film (and one made more than 20 years ago), because for anybody who happens to have dragged that VHS tape out of storage recently, the plot of “Toy Story 3? might seem a tad familiar.
With shades of “Winnie the Pooh,” the folks at Pixar have also narrowly avoided the fact that their trilogy is a more advanced version of “The Brave Little Toaster.”
Your heart pounds as Woody and his friends face what feels like certain death inside an incinerator while your mind goes, “Didn’t I see this already in The Brave Little Toaster ?”
Lip service to the virtues of friendship pads out what otherwise amounts to a rapid-fire string of uninspired anthropomorphised vehicle sight gags (although one moment, involving the black market sales of headlights, is enjoyable for a possibly inadvertent visual quotation from The Brave Little Toaster).