The success of Pixar over the past two decades has been enormously satisfying to behold, not only because I, like many of you, grew up along with the studio. I will gladly admit to being at the front of the drooling legion of fans of this groundbreaking company. But even the masses crave it enough that when a movie comes along that presents something unique, whether it’s a story, a character, or a new world, we salivate over it like a dog in front of a steak.Īnd so it is with many people and Pixar Animation Studios. So not everyone craves originality all of the time. Of course, when I say “we,” I mean film buffs because there’s no denying that the latest Transformers film, the third film in a franchise of movies based on a line of toys that inspired a 1980s-era cartoon, is nowhere near original yet made an insane amount of money at the worldwide box office. Originality is so rare these days that we latch onto anything that doesn’t smell of being laughably, obviously derivative.

Starring Deanna Oliver, Jon Lovitz, Thurl Ravenscroft

The brave little toaster