Only the second Simpsons short in existence! We bring you The Simpsons Playdate With Destiny review.
Maggie Simpson is taken to a playground by Marge. When another baby goes down the slide and almost crashes into her, she is saved by a boy named Hudson. Maggie becomes smitten with Hudson, and the two play games together, which Maggie fantasizes as a whirlwind romance.
The short puts us in the shoes of a never ageing Maggie Simpson as she meets a baby at a local park that she takes quite a liking too.
What results is a romantic adventure that is amusing and breezy. From sharing adult like memories together including Parisian sunsets Maggie becomes enamoured with her new baby boyfriend.
She eagerly awaits the next day her mum takes her to the park but instead Homer takes her to a different park the next day. A park for much older children.
Maggie uses all of her one year old brain to concoct a plan to see baby Hudson once again.
Laugh out loud moments a plenty in this brisk short it’s certainly a nice little segway that was used to introduced Onward in US cinemas.
Sadly The Simpsons hasn’t been good for quite some time but little shorts like this show that there is a glimpse of magic still there despite its watered down future.
Overall
An animation that once stirred a mixture of emotion in its audience and pushed the boundaries when it was released. An animation that is now well and truly a child-friendly Disney product and that’s the kicker of it all.
Whilst this short is enjoyable it’s a hard-hitting example that the good old days of The Simpsons offending and stirring trouble within the system are well and truly over.
That alone makes the Disney takeover hurt all the more.
The Simpsons Playdate with Destiny review by Sean Evans
Our Rating
Summary
A fun, easygoing and breezy short but a stark reminder that all The Simpsons content of the future will well and truly be Disney diluted.
