Pepsi Advert - opinions...

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Apparently it was premiered during 'I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here' but nothing - not even Roger Taylor in a toga - would get me to watch that pile of shite just for the sake of catching an ad.

And I don't even drink Pepsi!

The ad made me laugh a little... and literally turn the volume down when the girls started singing... and laugh so hard for 2 seconds in the Rog&Bri cameo scene... That 2 seconds was the best moment of the ad.

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I have just seen it. Thanks Rien!

My opinion: it sucks!
1. why Enrique Iglesias?
2. What does it all have to do with Pepsi
3. Most of all: in a Pepsi ad, the beverage should be the main point in the ad but this looks like an ad for Brit, Pink and Beyonce and the song
4. Why always use WWRY, as if Queen didn't have other great songs that could be used in an ad
5. Britney's singing sucks, not the right song for her

No, I didn't like it at all, sorry.
Pepsi has nothing to do with Gladiators and stuff like that, Pink, Brit and Beyonce have nothing to do with Queen and Enrique Iglesias even less.
And Brian and Roger appearing in it doesn't make it any better.

But it's up to them, if they had fun doing it, then it's all fine.
I just don't see the point.

My sisters like it. They don't like Queen, really, but they like it since it has some of their favourite singers on it (the three women)

"Why always use WWRY"

Maybe because it's one of the most recognised and popular songs in the world?

Sonja, I should've stopped reading your post after it said, "it sucks" cause anything after that was just going to be a dig. Why write about all the things you didn't like when you already said, "it sucks"?

Peace,
Adam.

Now... perhaps the obligatory good remark..?

Adam, I just wanted to give some reasons WHY I think it's bad.

I know that WWRY is one of the most recognized songs in the world but why use it over and over again? WWRY is a good and strong song but there are better ones in my opinion.
I just don't like the whole thing, sorry.

Well Sonja, your not alone in this. I don't like the ad either. My expectations were just too high on forehand I guess. The video starts out really great with the three girls starting the "boom-boom-clap" noise with their swords. Again great expections of what could follow. Then they walk into the arena, throw away their gear and to me that's it. After this there's no tension built up, no surprise (besides Brian and Roger in the audience), and not a really funny development in the story. As one mentioned earlier... imagine a huge portrait of Freddie or his statue... It would be more Queenlike if that one lion would transform into Brian May who starts playing his Red Special and e.g. a sculpture would transform into Roger Taylor and (here we go again I know I know) a portrait of John Deacon would slightly move his face or give us a wink. And Freddie's statue would be holding a can of Pepsi in it's hand(believe me I don't drink Pepsi but it's just the case that it's a Pepsi ad!) Just to honour Queen in the right way. It just could have been so much more impressive. The way they turned the original stage into an Arena was done very well however - you know if you've seen the original pics on the Pepsi site. And WWRY - the song... It's just great for these kind of things.

It would have been better if a boob fell out of a costume to replace the 1.5 seconds of those two old geezers.

Rien, I agree. I mean, they use a Queen song, Brian and Roger appear in the spot and then Enrique and the 3 girls. It's a strange mixture of totally different things. It just doesn't fit.