'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
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Pjtaylor-96-1380447 March 2020
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jwwalrath-227-854877 March 2020In this silent Simpsons short film that appeared before Onward in theaters, baby Maggie tries to reconnect with a boy she met at the playground. This is neither good nor bad, just there.
A little background: This is a sequel of sorts to the previous Maggie Simpson short The Longest Daycare. They're similar in format, silent and filmed from the angle of Maggie's point of view. Playdate's issue is that it pales in comparison to its predecessor. Daycare had the better jokes, rhythm and direction. More importantly, it was original. This just feels like it's trying too hard to recapture lightning in a bottle.
There are some funny moments, especially one at the beginning, but mostly this short just coasts. Animation is good for what it is. Again the effort given to show the world from Maggie's height is commendable.
You might get more out of this if you haven't seen Longest Daycare, and if you're a Simpsons completionist, go nuts. However, this isn't anything anyone really needs to take the effort to see. (I do encourage you to see Longest Daycare if you haven't yet. It's free and legally/officially available on Youtube.) -
JCX9414 May 2020Classic 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. -
babymanperson18 April 2020I 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.
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bsimpson18917 May 2020The Simpsons with the Disney treatment. A cute short.
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rdoubleoc28 April 2020I'm a pretty harsh critic, and I agree that this short was not bad but nothing special. However, I'd really like to see more Simpsons shorts like these.
Don't replace The Simpsons (30 min show) with these, however, since that's just irreplaceable. -
ericjdacton12 April 2020It was funny at the beginning when the black Mickey picture ended up to be Homer with 2 donuts. The movie starts with merge taking Maggie to a park and I was happy when Maggie met her love one and than when Maggie left, Maggie got ready to see him again but Homer took Maggie to a stake park and it's funny that Homer leaves Maggie to get a taco. Maggie was close to seeing him again before Homer took Maggie. It was sad when Maggie got sad. I will save the short when you watch it. It was funny short but if there was one thing they should add was to add talking. Overall, 8/10.
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Cineanalyst27 January 2021Disney 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.