HomeAway.Com – Hotel Hell

Oh, Chevy, when will you stop getting into hilarious trouble! We love the callback by HomeAway.com and admire Chevy’s willingness to shoot a short film (which we imagine he got paid quite nicely for). Also, call us crazy, but we’re fans of the whole, “Go see the whole commercial on our website!” thing. Why? Because, it means that commercials are becoming less, “Hot Girl Drinks Beer” and more actual short films, which, frankly, is the only way commercials are going to survive in the Tivo Age.

TV.Com Promo – Super Bowl 2010

Really, TV.com? Your website is called TV.com and you can’t think of a better TV commercial? Frankly, it feels like you just wasted a million dollars on nothing. Also, a piece of advice — we get what you’re trying to do, but, watching a commercial on TV that’s in a computer monitor doesn’t make us want to go to your website, it makes us just want to watch TV.

Prince of Persia – Disney Trailer – Super Bowl 2010

A Prince of Persia movie?! With a dagger that turns back time?! My god, how far the game has come. We remember playing the original, being utterly amazed at the almost-realistic movement of the hero and then realizing that 98% of the game was jumping over cliffs and/or falling to a grisly spike-filled death.

The only thing that can possibly make this movie better is if at the end of every Act, the Prince has to pick the non-poisonous potion out of a room filled with poisonous potions. Because that’s how they did it in Persia.

Bud Light – Asteroid – Super Bowl 2010

It’s true, if the world was ending, why not break out the watery low-fat goodness of Bud Light? It might make the hot scientist girl finally kiss you. It might make you want to ride the giant telescope like a horse. Or it might just make you realize that hey, maybe, just maybe, you should try a better beer.

Seriously, though — if the first thing we reach for when we found out the world was ending was a Bud Light, we should’ve ended our lives years earlier.

Jack in the Box Grilled Sandwiches – Super Bowl 2010

Oh, Jack in the Box. We remember when the only thing good about your restaurant were the Jack commercials. Now they feel tired and old. You should have just went for it — you should’ve just had Jack die in this one. It’s the Superbowl, after all, take some risks, kill the protagonists, stir up the story!

5D – CBS Promo – Super Bowl 2010

Oh, sure, you joke now, CBS. But just give it a few more years and we’ll be throwing out our new Samsung 3D TVs and buying Samsung 5D TVs which will then be replaced by 8D TVs at which point we’re giving up and going the route of our grandparents — where we remember how much better the older, simpler days were.

You crazy kids with your dimensions.

Dennys Chicken Warning

For half a second, we thought they were advertising some kind of chicken sandwich and even us — lovers of meat as we are — were a little horrified. But no, thankfully, they’re just talking about abusing female chickens and stealing their children, which is fine because, let’s face it, baby chickens make a delicious breakfast.

Cute commercial… though, we still hate Dennys.

Budweiser Bridge

That was… awesome. At first we were doing that eye-rolling that that’s reserved for just about every beer commercial but then… as if by magic, Budweiser pulls out sheer gold. You know what the best part of the commercial is? The premise is funny but — it’s the expression on the truck driver’s face — the disbelief — that sells the whole thing.

We love it. Bravo Budweiser, bravo.

Dr Pepper Cherry Dr Love – Little KISS – Super Bowl 2010

This commercial feels as dated as drinking Dr. Pepper. Does anyone still drink Dr. Pepper, really? We don’t remember the last time we even saw a can of Dr. Pepper… or a KISS concert. Or a Little KISS concert. Or anything related to KISS that wasn’t making fun of them… oh wait a minute. We see what they did here.

Okay, we want some Dr. Pepper.

Google – Parisian Love

You gotta hand it to Google — that commercial probably took all of an hour to put together and cost someone a few bucks to edit but it’s already better than half of the other things playing at the Super Bowl. Simple, poetic, to the point and memorable. There’s a reason everybody loves Google — and that’s because the guys behind everything Google are damn near geniuses.