Festa - The John Lewis Christmas Advert

Love it. Andrea Boccelli. Marvellous.

I quite liked it. Brave to show an all white family, even though they don’t seem to have a dad. I couldn’t see what the plant did wrong to make them drag it outside, though?

I liked the John Lewis ad.Not seen the rest yet. I felt sorry for the plant too. We had a little one for ages but it died in the end.

I really liked it!

I don’t like the M&S ad or the John Lewis one. I just couldn’t think who they would appeal to and thought them both weird. I like Aldi’s and Asda’s and also Sainsbury’s no nonsense approach. My favourites are Morrison’s and Lidl’s.

I too felt sad for the fly trap plant 🥹

I always like aldi's christmas ad.

Dempie55- i think it was just too big by then, and the very small dog almost kept getting eaten too of course🤔

Why not a CHRISTMAS ad that is focused on CHRISTMAS and the spirit/meaning of CHRISTMAS ?

Has anyone seen the Barbour one? That’ll make you smile!

Hate all the Christmas adverts from supermarkets, and the kids are so annoying. They do not come from stage school where they are actually taught to act but are cast from open auditions. Hate the particular advert more than the others

‘Hate’ is rather a strong word.

Loathe it ….Amazon win hands down

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlCF-LuSloQ

This is the McDonalds Christmas advert and although I'm not a fan of fast food, I like this advert the best.

Whether you like it or loathe it, the JL advertisement has certainly got us all talking. Time will tell if they have achieved their aim of increasing the Christmas footfall in the stores and boosted on-line orders.

I don't care for Christmas adverts that always have a 'message' and don't really show you what they are selling! I like the ones that promote Christmas and leave you with a warm feeling. If you like Michael Buble, you will like the Asda one this year.

Agreed 🤣

Just read that Iceland are not doing a Christmas ad - they’re saving billions and keeping their prices down instead!

Blushing in my ignorance, what is the significance of Festa please?

Billions? I don’t think so. JL’s ad is estimated to have cost £7m.

I think it’s a long time since JL did anything well, not just the increasingly awful Christmas ads. I am a retired Waitrose employee (“partner”) and from the stupid loyalty scheme to this stupid advertisement, I’m embarrassed to have been associated with them. They lost touch with their customer base long ago.

I haven’t seen many of this year’s Christmas ads mentioned so far, but others on the family WhatsApp group are talking about the Coca Cola one!

RosiesMaw

Blushing in my ignorance, what is the significance of Festa please?

It’s the song being sung, Festa is Italian for feast or holiday.

Yes, sorry - millions !

Jaxjacky

RosiesMaw

Blushing in my ignorance, what is the significance of Festa please?

It’s the song being sung, Festa is Italian for feast or holiday.

Which makes the ad even stranger than it already is, we’re not in Italy after all.
I think it’s similar to Edgar the dragon ad in saying it’s alright to be different, but they don’t take the plant back into the house do they?

Thank you!