If you have children, ignore everything I’ve typed above and show it to them.

The songs are of high quality, the animation is great. However, if you can get past all that scariness, the rest of the movie is (mostly) adorable and not freaky.

How this didn’t freak me out, I will never know. Those are cars that are apparently alive, singing about their depression as they are eaten by a giant crusher thing. On the other side of the not-for-children scale is the most depressing song ever written, “Worthless”. I’ve been asking people recently about this movie, and they all remember loving it, but being absolutely terrified at the same time. When I watched this scene as a child, I had to hide behind the couch, and the psychological scars still freak me out a bit while watching it now.Īgain, now that I am not five years old, I get the joke of him sounding like Jack Nicholson, but that didn’t matter back then. However, evil firefighter clowns have nothing on the scene where the air conditioner becomes angered and appears to have an aneurysm of some sort, and explodes. It’s funny because he has a fork and water, things that would scare toasters, but that’s not important because any children nearby are now scarred for life. Yes, in this clearly marketed for children movie, there is a scene where an evily smiling clown arises from hellish fire and tries to kill the toaster. See how adorable that looks? Clearly this will be a fun-filled adventure strewn with hugging and learning, right? Here’s a few pictures from the scene where Toaster has a nightmare.

The movie was distributed by Disney, but not actually made by them, which, I assume, is the reason that it is allowed to be so incredibly terrifying. The five appliances that embark on the journey are Toaster, an androgynous toaster, Blanky, a child-like electric blanket, Lampy, a desk lamp who isn’t very bright (get it?) Radio, an old radio who never shuts up and acts like he is from the 1940’s, and Kirby, an upright vacuum cleaner who hates everything.

The brave little toaster clown