The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue | |
---|---|
DVD cover
|
|
Directed by | Robert C. Ramirez |
Produced by |
Donald Kushner Thomas L. Wilhite John Bush Kurt Albrecht (co-producer) Willard Carroll (executive producer) Peter Locke (executive producer) |
Written by |
Original Brave Little Toaster characters: Thomas M. Disch (book), Jerry Rees and Joe Ranft (1987 film) Screenplay: Willard Carroll |
Starring |
Deanna Oliver Tim Stack Thurl Ravenscroft |
Music by | Alexander Janko (score), William Finn and Ellen Fitzhugh (songs) |
Production
company |
|
Distributed by | Walt Disney Home Video |
Release date
|
|
Running time
|
75 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue is the first direct-to-video sequel to The Brave Little Toaster. Despite being released after The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, it is actually the second film in chronological order. A production of Hyperion Animation and The Kushner-Locke Company, it was released in 1997 in the United States by Walt Disney Home Video. It was also released the same year in the United Kingdom and premiered on television on BBC Two. The film (along with Goes to Mars) is available for purchase and rental on the iTunes Store, but the first film has yet to be released.
Rob McGoarthy, the owner of the appliances and whom they refer to as "the master", is working in a veterinary clinic where he tends to injured animals. One night, while working on a thesis, his computer accidentally crashes due to being caused by a terrible computer virus from an old TLW-728 prototype supercomputer named Wittgenstein. The appliances, along with the rat Ratso who found Wittgenstein, then seek to help Rob by finding Wittgenstein to reverse the effects of his computer virus, hence recovering the master's thesis. Meanwhile, in a dual plot of the film, Mack, Rob's lab assistant, plots to sell the injured animals Rob had been tending to as part of his courses to a place called "Tartaras Laboratories", the same place that Sebastian, an old monkey Rob is tending to, was sent to when he was just a baby. When the appliances find Wittgenstein, they discover him abandoned, all alone and run-down and broken in the basement due to being infected by a computer virus, the same one that affected Rob's dorm room computer and the one in the vet clinic's lab when Wittgenstein try to contact them earlier. The miserable supercomputer reveals that he is living on one rare cathode tube, named the "WFC 11-12-55". The appliances learn that unless they find a replacement quickly, Wittgenstein's tube will blow and lead to his apparent death.