Back in May, the Simpsons/Star Wars crossover short hit to celebrate "Star Wars Day"... now.. timed, I guess to be in the same week as the finale of "Loki" - but not on the actual day? - is another Disney Corp crossover, this time with Marvel.
Cast out from Asgard, the god of Mischief Loki (Tom Hiddleston) is sent to Springfield, to live with the Simpsons. There, his ability to make Pork chops has Homer (Dan Castellenta) worshiping him, but tricks soon have the rest of the town activating their Avengers modes to move him along again.
The problem with this, even more so than with the Star Wars short, is that it's not really designed to do anything other than show off a bit of corporate synergy. To draw some of the Simpsons characters as Marvel ones, there's not really much of a story to it, nor are any of the jokes particularly inspired. The pairings of the MCU and Simpsons characters occasionally is clever, Barney and Tony Stark sharing a drinking problem for example, but others seem almost random.
To declare any real dislike for it, is to give it more genuine thought than anyone involved in its production really did, but if Disney are going to produce more of these, I'd prefer them to invest a little more time in the writing and actually tell a real story. (The Disney shorts accompanying the films manage to do that and introduce their characters - a little more that please).
Cast out from Asgard, the god of Mischief Loki (Tom Hiddleston) is sent to Springfield, to live with the Simpsons. There, his ability to make Pork chops has Homer (Dan Castellenta) worshiping him, but tricks soon have the rest of the town activating their Avengers modes to move him along again.
The problem with this, even more so than with the Star Wars short, is that it's not really designed to do anything other than show off a bit of corporate synergy. To draw some of the Simpsons characters as Marvel ones, there's not really much of a story to it, nor are any of the jokes particularly inspired. The pairings of the MCU and Simpsons characters occasionally is clever, Barney and Tony Stark sharing a drinking problem for example, but others seem almost random.
To declare any real dislike for it, is to give it more genuine thought than anyone involved in its production really did, but if Disney are going to produce more of these, I'd prefer them to invest a little more time in the writing and actually tell a real story. (The Disney shorts accompanying the films manage to do that and introduce their characters - a little more that please).