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The film adaptation’s existence on its own is rather daring. Buy it for your children read it yourself.” In its official book review, the New York Times called it “a wonderful book for a certain sort of eccentric adult.” The NYT‘s Anna Quindlen continued, “You know who you are. Characters quote Karl Marx and compose their own vignettes. Disch was noted as telling a story more complex than the preschool audience it appeared to be after. Far from being a simple oddity of children’s animation, the film (and the 1986 short story that inspired it) actually stands as an insightful vision of our own onslaught of smart appliances, the Internet of Things, and the personification of our own machines.įar from the fluff of much children’s literature, the original 1986 picture book by the poet and artist Thomas M. Looking back on it now, however, with more than 17 years of technological development between us and these magical gadgets, and The Brave Little Toaster is actually a rather prescient film. An air conditioner kills itself, a lamp has a near-death experience, anthropomorphic cars sing dirges while being crushed to death. In one particularly memorable scene, the titular toaster has a nightmare involving killer clowns and being suspended over a bathtub with a faceless victim below him. The 1987 animated feature about a group of sentient appliances in search of their long lost owner is at turns saccharine and terrifying. If you were born in the 1980s, there’s a good chance you had your childhood scarred by The Brave Little Toaster.
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