Highly reminiscent of a Brian Aldiss story called "Who Can Replace a Man?" (a scene at the wrecking yard reminds of the Flesh Fair from A.I., Spielberg's adaptation of Aldiss's "Supertoys Last All Summer Long"), the question arises as to "why a toaster?" (the Aldiss story also features an orphaned machine described as "no bigger than a toaster")-the answer possibly having something to do with the familiarity with the mundane that informs the best fables. In the whitewash of modern American children's entertainment via the Big Mouse, anything that isn't facile and patronizing is to be avoided and disdained.
Here's a film, after all, that's as innovatively disturbed-as usefully frightening-as any of Uncle Walt's own vintage Merry Melodies and Silly Symphonies. The first taste of Disch's novella The Brave Little Toaster, then, came to me by way of a feature-length animated adaptation from Disney that, a little like Babe: Pig in the City, probably caused enough consternation in the hearts and minds of studio PR to result in its relegation to a minor theatrical push with a botched advertising campaign. Disch for his sterling non-fiction work ( The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of and The Castle of Indolence) and a few samplings of his less impressive genre short fiction, and though I was aware that he'd written a couple of children's books about a band of appliances, I'd never felt compelled to investigate. Dischīy Walter Chaw I'm most familiar with Thomas M. Screenplay by Willard Carroll, based on the book by Thomas M.
Screenplay by Jerry Rees & Joe Ranft, based on the book by Thomas M.
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