The rest of the film is filled with all manner of wacky images such as a talking Mars lander and a planet of kitchen appliances that have revolted against obsolescence and fled Earth for Mars. (The end of the film has the delightfully surreal image of the contraption flying through space back to Earth towing the baby behind it in a bubble). When the journey to Mars involves a voyage on a laundry basket mounted on a ceiling fan and using a microwave popping popcorn as an energy source to power the contraption, you can clearly see we are no longer in science-fiction territory any longer but that this is an interplanetary journey that takes place entirely within the realm of fantasy. On the other hand, The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars settles in with an appealingly zany sense of humour. The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue was a much blander effort than The Brave Little Toaster. Toaster (voiced by Deanna Oliver) meets the Viking Lander (voiced by DeForest Kelley) Disch’s story, and is based on his 1988 children’s book follow-up of the same title, although that is not noted in the credits.
Unlike The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue, this returns to the original source material, Thomas M. The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars was made back-to-back and employs identical production credits to The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue, with the exception of some extra voice talents brought in to play the new appliances. This was the second of the Brave Little Toaster sequels made by Kushner-Locke, the first being The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (1997). In the 1990s though, it became one of a host of other animated films that were spun out into lucrative video-released sequel franchises, following the lead of Disney who churned out numerous cheap sequels to their classic animated films. The Brave Little Toaster (1987) was an appealing animated film, although one that enjoyed little success when it originally came out.
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