Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue, The
Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Williams on September 23rd, 2003
The second and last sequel to the Brave Little Toaster reunites the crew of Toaster, Blanky, Lampy, Radio and Kirby as they engage in an adventure with their owner Rob, who is a college student. In this movie our appliance team befriends animals at a veterinary clinic. However, they soon discover that Rob’s up-to-no-good assistant, Mack, has his own plans for the animals – to sell them to a lab for experimentation purposes! The appliances once again embark on a rescue mission (what’s with these guys? The last …ime they went to Mars to rescue a baby – talk about your rescue fantasies!) to help their new friends.
As in the last sequel, the songs are noticeably flat and add very little to the movie. The voice acting once again is good but the lines that are written for them are not.
Video
As is the fact with The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, the colors were surprisingly drab and lifeless. The 1.33:1 full frame transfer is marred with major artifacting whenever anything moved on the screen. The animation style used for this movie was no different than what you would expect from average Saturday morning cartoons which is a major disappointment considering the level of animation that one would expect from Disney, given their recent efforts seen in Tarzan and the Lion King.
Audio
The movie is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound with decent separation of sound in the rear speakers. The songs lacked any punch and there was little use of bass effects. The sound effects were decent though.
Special Features
By pressing the rarely used ‘angle’ button on the remote, you can navigate through Storyboard-to-Scene comparisons where the viewer can compare separately or simultaneously storyboards with the full movie. Kind of neat but it gets old fast.
Final Thoughts
While it was slightly better that the other sequel, The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, it still pales to the original Brave Little Toaster. A decent movie but one that I think kids and adults will watch once but no more than that.
Special Features List
- Storyboard-to-Screen comparisions
April 5th, 2005 at 5:14 pm
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