That luckless wannabe-pioneer’s name? John Lasseter. Mere minutes after the animator completed his ambitious pitch, Disney fired him. However, the cost-conscious House of Mouse had been burned before, taking a bath on the computer-live action hybrid Tron, and the notion of inanimate objects with hope and fears was strange and off-putting to the Disney execs who were about to be overthrown by Michael Eisner. Disch’s “bedtime story for appliances” would be the perfect material for the studio’s first all-CGI feature. But it’s not much different from the purest forms of fable, where danger and derring-do culminate in an important lesson.ĬOMMENTS: Disney’s rejection of The Brave Little Toaster is the stuff of animation legend: an enthusiastic animator thought Hugo-winner Thomas M. That distinguishes it from what we’ve come to expect from animated films ostensibly aimed at children. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: The movie has a rough charm that comes from its modern setting, fresh characters, and willingness to flirt with bleakness in its darkest moments.
PLOT: A forgotten appliance and its fellow overlooked mechanicals set off on a journey to find their long-lost master, and encounter many perils along the way to their surprising reunion.
FEATURING: Voices of Deanna Oliver, Jon Lovitz, Phil Hartman, Thurl Ravenscroft
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