So, what do you folks think of the John Lewis Christmas ad then?
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Given the amount of, erm, interest the Asda Christmas ad has generated on Mumsnet in the past few days, we thought it would be interesting/fun to find out how you all feel about the John Lewis Christmas ad.
Well I was quite enjoying the haunting, evocative introduction to the song until I realised it was the deeply cheesy 'Power of Love'. Some of the photography and rendering is beautiful but there's not much product on show except a saggy pair of gloves and an oversized beret. It doesn't inspire me to go to John Lewis for my Christmas shopping so in that sense it's failed I suppose.
I love it. No wonder they couldnt afford a Waitrose ad.
Please note snowmans grim determination face at 25 seconds in. My husband looks exactly like this on Christmas Eve when he sets out to town, coming back with the first unsuitable hat and glove set he can lay his hand on. Therefore much more realistic than asda ad in our house at least.
It does glorify shoplifting though, that snowman clearly had no money in his frosty pockets!
And it's so bloody hot in John Lewis I don't reckon he'd have made it into the accessories department, through the long Christmas queues and back out before he started dripping all over the floor.
BedHog he just took the items off the mannequin in the window with a bit of help from Aled Jones, who just happened to be passing whilst singing "We're walking in the air"
Mr frosty is passive aggressive and clearly needs to work through his ishoo's. Instead he goes on a massive journey in order to bring back implements of torture guilting Ms Frosty into put them on as he tells her all about his hard time fetching them whilst she forces a smile and feels the slow agonising death caused by the toasty hat scarf and gloves snowperson + warmth = puddle