Cadbury's Gorilla is back - Watch it here

by Staff, Campaign 05-Sep-08, 17:00

Fallon has combined the "gorilla" and "trucks" spots for an anniversary special to break in the Big Brother Final tonight.

 

The agency has remixed the commercials, adding a new soundtrack to each ad.

Instead of Phil Collins, the Gorilla can be seen drumming along to Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart", while the trucks race down the runway to Bon Jovi's "Living on a Prayer" rather than Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now".

Watch the ad here, and tell us what you think.

Comments

Ed Kemp

Ed Kemp - 05/09/2008

oh dear, that is laaaazy.

 
 
Lisa England

Lisa England - 05/09/2008

Trucks is actually much better with that track. Gorilla is wrecked though.

 
 
tristan pride

tristan pride - 05/09/2008

sh1t...

 
 
Luis Araujo

Luis Araujo - 05/09/2008

meh.

 
 
Nick Waddell

Nick Waddell - 06/09/2008

They've managed to massacre/ re-hash and therefore de-value one of the most memorable campaigns for years....such a shame

 
 
Charley Christopher

Charley Christopher - 06/09/2008

Terrible, I actually cringed when I saw this, its was so powerful the first time, even if you hated it, the talkability was massive, now its all sped up, slowed down, we know when hes going to sniff the air blah blah, rubbish! Come on Cadbury, come up with summit else! or I will stop buying your chocolate* * I probably won't its so nice and creamy.

 
 
Chee Lau

Chee Lau - 07/09/2008

Both aren't as good as the original IMO. The Gorilla one is particularly bad, I can see how the Bon Jovi track cold work but it just looks like they cobbled something together in a day as nothing seems in sync. WEIRD!

 
 
Duncan James

Duncan James - 08/09/2008

It would be easy to criticise what was a great campaign and I was looking fwd to seeing them, then watched them twice to mkae sure. Ruined. All these trilogies, Indiana Jones back, ads back with new music, celebs famous for BB.... ORIGIANLITY. We are eating our own digested culture, last time that happened in the animal world we had BSE.

 
 
AMSTERDAMAGED

AMSTERDAMAGED - 08/09/2008

FUCKING RUBISH!!!! CRAP FIRST TIME AND NOW A DODGY RE EDIT AND TRACK CHANGE.... CADBURYS WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU PLAYING AT???????

 
 
AMSTERDAMAGED

AMSTERDAMAGED - 08/09/2008

YEAH I KNOW.... RUBBISH

 
 
Stuart Aplin

Stuart Aplin - 08/09/2008

Too lazy for words. The excellent original has spawned a load of remixes on YouTube, this will hopefully be quietly forgotten...

 
 
Alan Kittle

Alan Kittle - 08/09/2008

I'm pleased to see not one post criticising Fallon. Because I'm sure this was all Cadbury's idea... I noted the client getting all excited about it before it aired – calling themselves "A Glass and a Half Productions" doesn't help. I think they've forgotten it was all a joke to start. And taking themselves way too seriously!

 
 
Richard Edwards

Richard Edwards - 08/09/2008

Oh dear. Was initially excited to see Gorilla come on screen, thinking 'there's bound to be a clever twist that my small, creatively limited mind, just couldn't conceive of'. My breath was literally bated...then...err...nothing. What a let-down. As has been said above, lazy lazy lazy. So bad it has even undermined the goodwill that was created by the first execution. How can clearly talented people get it so wrong. Smacks of a cut and paste and just doesn't work. I am a little bit sad now.

 
 
Wooly Walnut

Wooly Walnut - 08/09/2008

What was the point of that? They should've reshot the drumming in the gorilla ad. His movement may match the music on low-res YouTube, but you can see the cracks on TV.

 
 
Mark King

Mark King - 08/09/2008

Pointless and unsatisfying - as advertising as well as 'entertainment'.

 
 
Robert Clements

Robert Clements - 09/09/2008

I also think the trucks ad is a vast improvement, but still a heavy price to pay for a substandard gorilla

 
 
ed boost

ed boost - 09/09/2008

I was hoping to see the gorilla on the back of one of the trucks \(or all..) or at lest something original. BORING!!

 
 
Leigh Baker

Leigh Baker - 10/09/2008

toss

 
 
Tom

Tom - 12/09/2008

Have you seen the new Sony mash-up ad on TV at the moment?: www.ideasbrothers.net

 
 

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