Comments on: Cadbury’s Drumming Gorilla – Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart

By: CovertJellyfish

CovertJellyfish — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:22:21 +0000

# but then again i love Bon Jovi #

Erm, yeah, now we know what your opinion is worth.

By: Stan

Stan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:13:47 +0000

what u mean you cant polish a turd! it was never a turd. but i bet u feel clever for saying that Darren, as most ppl who use that idiotic phrase do.

I agree with Roy as Fallon definately would never repeat an original idea, they probably strongly contested it.
I prefer the Bonjovi track to the queer one, but then again i love Bon Jovi

er yeah, shame they killed such a great ad :/

By: Darren

Darren — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:20:44 +0000

Hmm as I was the one who brought the original ad to Silky’s attention, suppose I better comment…

You can’t polish a turd.

Just about sums it up…

By: roy

roy — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:43:24 +0000

Being a designer I really think this is the marketing and management saying “just do another song” not really realising the original was just that original, a total rehash and typical money saving and lack of respect/trust from management to designers!

By: Kez

Kez — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:01:21 +0000

I think the main reason this sequel fails is exactly that; it’s a sequel. It’s doing nothing different, it’s trying to milk this quirky idea that everyone loved..BECAUSE it was like nothing else. Now it’s just trying to re-capture the ingenuity of the original, but it doesn’t work because it’s just a clone of the original.

Also, i never knew this was on YouTube first…

By: pete

pete — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:02:00 +0000

A lot of responses remind me of judges in Strictly Come Dancing.
My wife and I saw this ad.for the first time recently and we creased up. You don’t have to see any chocolate during the song but the fun comes back to you when you see the Cadbury name or think of chocolate.

By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:03:28 +0000

I would say your criticisms are indeed valid, but that doesn’t excuse the fact that the Bonnie Tyler overlay was on You-Tube about 5 days after the original Phil Collins version aired.

so this makes it another lazy you-tube rip off

By: saltydog

saltydog — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:41:38 +0000

It looks like they used the same footage, b/c the gorilla singularly fails to play any cymblas when they are clearly heard on the song.

By: Joanna Butler

Joanna Butler — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:26:22 +0000

wow..i’ve just seen this for the first time, unbelievably shite

By: misterfricative

misterfricative — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:28:23 +0000

You know what would have been funnier? They should have set it up to use some manic thrash number, and when the music finally kicks in, the gorilla should have been all WTF?! I can’t play that. And then he gets all pissed and frustrated and throws down the sticks, kicks over a couple of drums and stomps off.

(BTW site admin dudes: I see the ‘click to edit’ button on my previous post, but when I click it, it says I don’t have permission to edit. You might want to look into that. UPDATE — Oh hey, the edit works on this one! I guess the edit option must be subject to some kind of 1 minute time-lock feature or something?)

By: misterfricative

misterfricative — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:13:00 +0000

Is this for real? It plays like a low-rent Youtube piss-take, and even by those low standards it fails. Apart from anything else, who the fuck wants to hear Bonnie Tyler sing Bright Eyes (or whatever it’s called). No one, that’s who.

By: Frankly

Frankly — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:33:25 +0000

With a basic bit of video editing software you can cut up any music video and try to stitch it to a different bit of music but it isn’t always going to work.
But even with that they did a piss poor job. The action doesn’t sync with the music anymore.
Its a load of Rubbish and its been playing longer than the original Phil Collins version. They really should pull it,

By: Mike Empuria

Mike Empuria — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:58:01 +0000

The original version was aimed at me; my age group and a chocolate lover, but what worked in the Phil version is that everyone, EVERYONE, that knows the song knows that the best bit is the drum rift. That’s why the ad worked so well. Bonny Tyler is still aimed at the same age group but where was the drum rift? Where was the expectation of musical brilliance? Where was the surprise? There wasn’t one and so it doesn’t work.

Now if they can get the monkey to do Dance with the Devil…

Edit:You can do edits now? Wow, must come here more often!

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:41:00 +0000

Another lazy You-tube ripoff

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:49:21 +0000

They’ve doen the same thing with the trucks advert, put to some new music. New music doesn’t make a crap advert any better.

It’s advertising chocolate, let’s get some chocolate into the advert and make me want that. This advert in no way makes me want chocolate.