It's not too well explained how the baby is transported to Mars, but once he's there, he floats around in some kind of impervious air bubble (which can survive re-entry into Earth's atmosphere, of course.) Thomas M. The plot (such that it has one) revolves around the McGroarty's infant son being kidnapped by a rebellious band of appliances who have somehow relocated themselves to Mars. That may sound like a funny complaint about a film whose title character is a talking toaster, but believe me, you'll be scratching your head too. In "Mars," not only do animals and appliances talk to one another, the kitchen sink talks! And toy balloons can talk! Christmas ornaments can talk! It's a regular talking extravaganza, and it raises eerie metaphysical questions about what ISN'T alive in this whacko movie.As other reviewers have noted, "The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars" has some serious plausibility problems as well.
The Toaster films extended this to electrical devices, which was charming and unique since we tend to think of our favorite and least favorite appliances and electronics as having personalities anyway. Usually in Disney films, this includes people and non-human animals. (That kid is REALLY going to need some therapy when he grows up.)Perhaps the creepiest aspect of "Mars" is the fuzzy boundary about what can and cannot "come to life" with human speech and sentience. And for the rest of the film, appliances can "come to life" around the baby. something about how Rob's appliances are watching out for the kid while they dance around and cuddle. But in "Mars" we watch a truly terrifying musical number with the McGroarty's new baby and the appliances. The Disch story is a lighthearted fantasy with a sci-fi edge the Disney adaptation never gets off the ground.Anyway, enough about how the plot of this mess is, well, a mess, and onto to the creepiness! One of the constants of the first two Toaster movies, and a feature of most "inanimate objects coming to life" movies (think Toy Story), is that the talking appliance characters only come to life when people are NOT around. But in the "Mars" movie, Disney seems to have decided to include every bizarre element of the Disch book (appliances travelling to Mars under their own power, gigantic talking refrigerators, talking toy balloons surrounding the Earth, "Christmas Angels" on Mars etc.), failed to integrate said bizarre elements into the Disney storyline or explain them, and then they added MORE convoluted nonsense of their own. Not that I have a problem with Disney re-writing the storyline as I've said I enjoy both the movies and the books which inspired them. The "master" of the appliances Rob McGroarty, his girlfriend/wife Chris, the veterinary school thing -all 100% Disney. Disney pretty much took Disch's concept of anthropomorphic appliances and ran with it, adding their own human characters and greatly altering the plot.
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Disch (which are excellent, by the way, and I highly recommend them.) A large part of the awfulness of the "Mars" movie sequel seems to result from the unfortunate collision of the Disney- and Disch-authored plots. Then I finally read the Brave Little Toaster books by Thomas M. Seriously, it was hard to imagine that people whose brains weren't chemically fried could POSSIBLY think that some of the nonsense and downright creepiness in this flick was a good idea.
(And why would you want to traumatize a 3 year old with this!?) I watched this film with a 7 year old and a 9 year old, and we all agreed about how awful it is.When I first watched this very convoluted movie, it brought every "what were they smoking" cliche to mind about the screenwriters and director. I don't care how nuts you and/or your kids are about the Brave Little Toaster, if you're over 3 years old this monsterpiece will give you brain cramps.
Some of the other reviewers don't sound too fond of the Brave Little Toaster movies, period, but that's not the case with me! I loved the original movie, and the other sequel (part two in the Disney-adapted storyline) "The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue," is an enjoyable extension of the Toaster series, if not quite up to the original. "It pains me to have to think about this movie again, but I thought I'd write a review to warn people away, if I could.
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