Let’s face it. The order of excitement is the Halftime performance then the commercials then the actual football game.
At $5 million for 30 seconds, you really expect the ads on Sunday to be pretty outstanding but a lot of people were disappointed. Overall, humor and parody edged out emotional and political stuff so that’s nice. Here’s some of our favorite commercials from the game.
The NFL’s “I’ve Had The Time of My Life” dance routine from Dirty Dancing with Eli Manning and Odell Beckham, Jr.
Tide’s ads with David Harbour.
The fake trailer for the “Crocodile Dundee” sequel, with Danny McBride and Chris Hemsworth. But it was just a commercial for Australian tourism. Although it did have a cameo from the real Crocodile Dundee, Paul Hogan.
Michelob Ultra had fun with the whole celebrity cameo thing. It was a two-parter, where Chris Pratt got all buff to play the spokesperson for Michelob Ultra. But it turned out he’d only landed a role as an EXTRA.
So in the second part, he stood in the background while a series of regular Americans sang an ode to beer called “I Like Beer”. And it was actually a pretty catchy song.
A lot of people liked the Amazon Alexa ad where Alexa lost her voice. A bunch of celebrities filled in, like Gordon Ramsay, Cardi B, Rebel Wilson from “Pitch Perfect”, and Anthony Hopkins. The scene where Rebel Wilson tried to ‘set the mood’ for a guy’s party by talking dirty was hilarious.
The lip synch rap battle between Peter Dinklage and Morgan Freeman repping Doritos and Mountain Dew. Dinklage did the Busta Rhymes verse from “Look at Me Now” by Chris Brown. And Morgan Freeman did “Get Ur Freak On” by Missy Elliott.