The Brave Little Toaster

When I was around 6, my mother left me in the nursery while she went shopping at the grocery store, and the babysitter let us watch this movie. I was TRAUMATIZED when I saw it. It gave me nightmares for weeks. These scenes include the air conditioner blowing up, the lamp getting struck by lightning, the infamous clown scene (which made me cry), and the scene where the cars were being smashed by the compactor. The scene with the compactor was the worst. About 8 cars are crushed into little tiny cubes that looked like bouillion cubes. Moreover, the cars are singing about death on the way to the compactor, and there is this big magnet picking them up that has these menacing eyes. Also, the compactor has these really menacing teeth that repeatedly open and close as the cars are being brought to it. This scene was entirely inappropriate for a children's film, as the cars are anthropomorphic in nature and you grow to care for them just before their lives are cut tragically short (I'm 22 years old and I still get tears in my eyes when I think about it. Maybe I'm just too sensitive). Anyway, I say all of that to tell parents not to let little children see this movie. At an older age they may be able to handle it, but why would they want to? There are so many better cartoons out there.

Do not show this to children, whatever you do. They will have nightmares. There is scary stuff galore. Lampy sacrifices himself during a storm to recharge the battery. Toaster has a horrible nightmare. There is a musical sequence at the dump in which the cars sing about their past while awaiting being crushed. Some try to escape, but fail. The Master is nearly crushed by the compactor, but is saved by Toaster sacrificing himself by throwing himself into the gears at the last minute. The worst is the air conditioner scene, which is designed after the work of Jack Nicholson. Wait until your kids are in high school at youngest.