Sorry John Lewis Amazon has won the Christmas advert this year

[Comefromaway]

Maybe I'm biased because I have kids who dance and sing including a daughter who went to ballet school and I know how much they are missing performing.

www.classicfm.com/music-news/coronavirus/amazon-christmas-ad-ballerina-show-cancelled-crisis/

Not very Christmassy but a nice story. I hope we don't have to watch the full length version too many times, but I always feel like that about long adverts after first watch!

Fucking hell the Age concern needs a tw !
Say sobbing here.

I came here to pour scorn on mushy ads... Jesus,Joseph and Mary that bloody age concern one has me fucking bawling.

I was not emotionally ready, I just wasn't

😥 sat here tears streaming, I was expecting the normal happy ending but it wasnt to be 😥😥😥

@MustardMitt

As a former ballet dancer, I’m gritting my teeth at the damage those ballet shoes must get on a roof!

Nice advert. Now I know what those crazy torches are for!

As a mother who has spent a fortune on ballet shoes over the years, that was exactly my reaction too

Beautiful ad though.

@MustardMitt

As a former ballet dancer, I’m gritting my teeth at the damage those ballet shoes must get on a roof!

Nice advert. Now I know what those crazy torches are for!

Gosh yes, I can't tell the brand (dd would be able to) but at between £40-60 a pair they will be wrecked!

I do wish they had chosen a British trained dancer (we have lots who are in desperate need of work).

@Wankerchief

I came here to pour scorn on mushy ads... Jesus,Joseph and Mary that bloody age concern one has me fucking bawling.

I was not emotionally ready, I just wasn't

I was kind of hoping for a better outcome TBH.

I've still got fat toddler tears 😢
I wasn ready.

Is that Fatima's last show before she goes off to learn cyber?

Cried at the Amazon one, can't bring myself to watch the Age Concern one though .... not yet

That age concern one is shite, why do they make older folk appear so doddery some more seasoned people are very spritely. Apparently M&S aren't doing one this year opting for 'influencers' to show their goods instead.

Can't we just have a simple bloody Christmas advert without the saccharin #bekind over done heartfelt message crap.

The man in the Age Concern advert didn't look that old to me.

I must be dead inside, I was bored through both

@VanGoghsDog

Is that Fatima's last show before she goes off to learn cyber?

Or goes to work in the Amazon warehouse.

Nah, it's still last year's from Hafod Hardware in Rhayader that does it for me. I had a little sniff watching again this week, hoping the small, independent stores will pull through.

@Dontstepinthecowpat

Same.

@MustardMitt

As a former ballet dancer, I’m gritting my teeth at the damage those ballet shoes must get on a roof!

Nice advert. Now I know what those crazy torches are for!

Yup that was my first thought too! Pointe shoes are bloody expensive!

That girl is very good though

@VanGoghsDog

Is that Fatima's last show before she goes off to learn cyber?

ahahaha this is why mumsnet needs an upvote button!

I haven't shed a tear at a JL ad yet. Every year where everyone's sobbing I am just 'oh'.

I don't know why advertising companies think we want to be bawling at Christmas. I loved the little drummer Nandi in last year's Argos ad-that's what we want to see not sob stories and gloom.

Kevin the carrot gets my vote!

Dear lord, that Age Concern advert is like something made for The Apprentice.

I don’t think it is an Age Concern ad though is it, just a video to accompany a song raising money for Age Concern.

Crying.

I can't believe anyone is crying at the Age UK song/video, it's awful!

@movingonup201

I can't believe anyone is crying at the Age UK song/video, it's awful!

Brutal. I've never cried at an ad before! I blame covid.

@TheQueef it made me giggle, it's so trite, I'm going to hell aren't I!