Spiel mit dem Schicksal

Disney now owns Fox and its properties, including "The Simpsons" cartoon TV series, in addition to Pixar already, in case anyone didn't know. This short, "Playdate with Destiny," accompanying the Pixar feature "Onward" (2020) feels like an advertisement of that fact. The youngest of the Simpsons family, Maggie, the now-thirty-something-years-old baby, takes center stage in this one. Although there's a bit of exploration of potentially more interesting avenues, with dreams and that the short plays out like a modern silent film, it's mostly a parody of a globetrotting romance flick, with the infants imagining themselves doing grown-up mush. The train gag is decent--probably reminiscent of far too many movies. As with the Pixar movie, I'm generally indifferent to it, so at least it makes for appropriate mediocre accompaniment to a mediocre feature.

'Playdate With Destiny (2020)' is the second Maggie-based 'Simpsons' short, which marks the show's 'Fox to Disney' transition with a smile and a wink. It's a decently enjoyable experience. It has a simple story and is stuffed with a fair amount of referential visual humour. It isn't exactly exciting and it's very predictable, but it's engaging enough and never even comes close to overstaying its welcome. Overall, it's enjoyable. 6/10

The Simpsons with the Disney treatment. A cute short.

I like the first one better. This one was ok it had a few good gags here and there. It feels a bit pointless since we are never going to see the little boy again.

Classic tale of first love, longing, loss and refinding each other all compressed Into 4 minutes. All that without even a word spoken.

If the writer's could make the show's episodes at this quality then they would be at least half as good as they used to be.