Monday, February 05, 2007

More comments

Go Daddy -- I'm sure that this ad drove lots of people to Go Daddy to see "more". I'm still not sure how an ugly chick with a nicely enhanced body sells, but it certainly gets attention. A lousy ad that probably did the job.

Grand Theft Coca-Cola -- This was my favorite ad of the night. A nicely done ad that parodies the whole genre of video games but puts a "I'd like to teach the world to sing" twist on it. Well done.

Bud -- Fake Dalmation -- Okay, another one where I saw it coming and didn't we get the dalmation a few years ago? Not clever, and the filthy chick at the end is just gross.

Garmin -- Ultra Man ad. If you loved Ultra Man, this was funny. Either way, it was somewhat clever, with the GPS saving the day from cumbersome maps.

Career Builder -- Running from training seminar. A little too over the top for me, but the idea of a training seminar gone horribly wrong would have been a good ad had you realized that's what it was from the beginning. It just looked like a mish mash of ideas from the start.

Doritos Cashier -- Okay, not sure what we're selling here. That Doritos really appeal to overweight scary women who will go nuts at a cash register when you buy them. Yes, it was supposed to be funny, but when its not, you tend to analyze it more.

Chevy Striptease -- Naked men surrounding a car full of women is never funny. It's just creepy.

Bud Slapping Ad -- Yes it's wrong, and probably will inspire lots of copycats at the frat house and the playground. But it appealed to the Three Stooges Fan in me. And I laughed.

Heart Attack Ad -- This looked like a Saturday Morning PSA. A lot of money for something as cheesy as this.

GM Robot -- Didn't another car company do a robot ad a few years ago? Is the idea of suicide funny, even if it is robots? Given that most people decried robots for taking away good paying jobs, I wonder how many former auto workers would have offered to push him off.

Coke Black History Month -- Nice ad, but would have been better had they not tried to tie it back to Coke. For an example of how to do this, see the Budweiser troop ad not long ago.

Sprint Connectile Dysfunction -- A funny spoof of the ads that seemed to have plagued the Superbowl for years.

Sunday, February 04, 2007

More commercials

Snickers -- Two Guys kissing. 40 Year Old Virgin joke (and how is that manly?). Still not laughing.

Shick -- Not laughing again. (Is my sense of humor dead? )

Pride -- Ain't the Super Bowl supposed to be for event movies?

Chevy -- Nice and nostalgic

Bud Light Mencia teaching English -- Again, predictible, but a bit more amusing. Didn't I see this in Stripes?

Late Night Promo -- Sad when a CBS promo is the funniest thing so far in this Super Bowl

Super Bowl Ads Starting off Horribly

Bud -- Rock Paper Scissors

Predictible. Far funnier on the SPRINT ad last year.

Doritos

Car accident and girl hitting her head. It's like VW's SAFE HAPPENS without the laughs. The commercial looks like those annoying KFC ads from a couple of years ago. The ads are starting off as well as the Colts.

Blockbuster -- Okay, I don't think the animals were that funny a few years ago. Shouldn't a company that's hurting financially find a better way to spend its money? And isn't the computer mouse joke about 10 years too late to be funny? Is a good connection to the product though.

Sierra Mist -- Combover -- Quirky, but trying too hard for attitude, not enough to be funny.

SalesGenie.com -- Okay, where did they get the money? Only a few commercials in and we have our lowest scoring ad.

Sierra Mist Karate -- What would happen if the VH1 I love the Whatever Decade cast did a commercial? You'd get this bad day at the improv. Nothing funny about it.

Tundra -- WOW! That was pretty cool.

Moon Office Fed Ex -- A completely witless ad punctuated with the same joke as last year's caveman ad.

Bud Light Auction -- Amusing, with an even funnier kicker at the end. Not anywhere near the best of Bud Light's ads in the Super Bowl.