Brave Little Toaster Tribute

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Revisiting the movie with my wife from memory, providing just the highlights, depressed the hell out of me. The movie is deep, far deeper than what you typically get from an animated film released by Disney (it was produced outside- I had to look that up, but it makes sense given the gravity and subtle subject material).

This is one of those films that I thought I might have been reading too much into. It's a kids movie with the animation department that would later do most of Disney's daily cartoons and with one of the lead characters voiced by Jon Lovitz. It's beautiful in that role of a simple kids cartoon that I foundly remember as a child. And I do read into things too much sometimes for both comedic and serious effect (a characteristic embued both by my father and countless over analytical English Literature teachers).
Turns out, I'm not alone at all in my rather grim take on the otherwise colorful setting that "The Brave Little Toaster" has. Rather, the internet generally justifies that depressing stance that the film is vaguely religious and a journey into the moralities involving self worth and death.

Again... this is 'Disney' movie.
But to be fair, it's as 'Disney' as "Spirited Away"...only produced in America.

And this tribute really brings out the grim (almost fairy tale-ish in the classic sense) nature of the film adults probably notice more than kids.

And the most depressing, and catchy, song of the movie:



Just a little bit of analysis on this one: These cars are desperately telling one another of their lives, the things they loved and their accomplishments as the junk yard crane descends through the clouds like an angel of death. And when their time is come short, their life, ambitions, and stories are declared worthless- and meeting the same inevitable end everyone else does.
How is that not depressing?