Mittman

Probably the worst year for ads in the past decade. FedEx, Pepsi and Coke (Both the Stewie and Carvell spots) were the only highlights.

The film spots for Wanted, Iron Man, and Wall-E weren't bad, but they don't count.

jiggawhat

The pepsi ad and the American idol ad with Ben Roethlisberger. I'm guessing he gets reamed next season by his teammates for that one.

NiCK Crush

Will Ferrell's Bud-Lite/Semi Pro ad was hilarious.

-NiCK

MartinBlank

That one made me throw up a little bit in my mouth.

I dug the E*Trade one with "under-estimated the creepy factor" on the clown one....funny to me.

Patman

Shaq-Jockey was kinda funny. I thought the jockey slapped Shaq in the nuts the first time I saw it, but upon further review, he was just slapping Shaq's butt.

Thrush

The Dwayne Wade Barkley - not bad
Tide - decent
NFL SuperAD with the Oboe playing grocery bagger- Best of them all IMO

Neil M.

I didn't think there was one good ad last night. The only one that made me laugh was the bud light caveman but not because of the commercial. It was because the first thought in my head was, "Are they going to give these cavemen their own show?"

I thought this was the worst year ever for Super Bowl ads.

starman9000

Yeah, I hate talking baby ads, but that line did make me laugh.

I liked the Tide ad too, but it wasn't really that funny, just a good ad.

mphtrilogy

I thought they were decent
Charlie Brown getting the coke, I was expecting Lucy and a Football type miss
I liked the Rocky Music and the Clydesdales
I liked the Thriller lizards
The Baby e-trades were creepy but funny
Will Ferrell Bud LIght was pretty solid
Iron Man looks great
Wanted looks good

Did not like the Dwayne Wade, or Roethelsberger commercials

Fox sure spent a lot of money on the Sara Connor Chronicles promo, I hope it works.

Chew

I wonder about that. When a network promotes the crap out of their shows, are they really spending their money (beyond producing them, that is)? Or is it just that they didn't sell all their ad space and promoting their own shows is what they have to do to fill the time?

Patman

They most likely didn't sell the ad slots, so they had to fill the time internally. The networks would rather sell the ads for revenue than pump their shows during the Super Bowl.

Chew

Top 10 Ad Meter results (#1 is listed first):

Groucho

Pretty disappointing. I was expecting more ads for the high-profile summer movies.

Also, Naomi Campbell is a terrible dancer.

raven56706

the career builder commercials were by far the stupidest commercials ever... especially the heart one

spainlinx0

Were they? How about the blatantly racist salesgenie ads? I was shocked someone approved those. Stereotypical Indian and Chinese accents? Wow.

I can forgive that stuff when it's funny, but they were certainly not funny at all.

wmansir

I didn't see the Chinese one, but the Indian one seemed fine to me. Perhaps I would spot the pattern if I had seen them both, but I didn't see the intent for the accents to be funny, but just to be more memorable than generic businessmen seen in every other commercial.

I didn't catch them all, but of what I saw my favorite was the Dorito's giant rat.

Big Boy Laroux

spainlinx, i cannot believe you are the first person to mention those salesgenie ads. those were horrible and sterotypical. i made a comment to the people i was watching with last night.

raven56706

i forgot about the salesgenie one.... thats true

fumanstan

I don't remember the Indian one, but I thought the Chinese pandas was close to being offensive.

Michael Corvin

I enjoyed the Wall-E trailer although Buzz & Woody being there seemed kinda forced. That and Tom Hanks not lending his voice hurt it as well. At least we can count on Tim Allen always needing work, so Buzz will always have his talents behind him.

cdollaz

I liked the NFL one just because it was the only way the Houston Texans were going to get any type of TV time on Super Bowl Sunday.

GradVT06

Wow, I thought this year's ads were very very bad. On or two made me chuckle, one or two made me laugh, and the rest were just not good. Not funny, not effective, stuck somewhere around "trying too hard to be either clever or funny, but ended up being neither".

RichC2

Budweiser Dalmatian trains Clydesdale to make beer wagon team. 8.73

FedEx FedEx beats giant carrier pigeons. 8.26

Bridgestone Critters scream with squirrel missed by car. 8.11

Doritos Giant rat goes for guy's bag of chips. 7.94

Bud Light Fire-breather heats up romantic dinner. 7.84

Bud Light Men sneak beer into wine-and-cheese party. 7.73 --

Coca-Cola Cartoon-character parade balloons go after Coke Classic. 7.65 --

Diet Pepsi Max Star-studded cast stops dozing. 7.60

Planters Scent of nuts makes homely woman alluring. 7.41

(tie) Tide to Go Shirt stain is louder than a job candidate. 7.39

SoBe Life Water Lizards dance with model Naomi Campbell. 7.39

PixyJunket

I think Pixar is having trouble trying to pimp the movie since its main character can't speak (and half the movie may be sans dialog because of that).. if the synopsis I read for the movie about a year ago holds true, they're probably not going to want to give anything away. I think all they can do is say "This is the next Pixar movie, remember those other movies we made that you loved? Here's the next one!"

Big Boy Laroux

they even said that in the ad. Salaam said, "and now we're in the super bowl". Pitts responded with "kinda. sort of."