This years JL / Waitrose Christmas ad

JackyB

I thought there was another thread on this year's Christmas ads.

This one brought a tear to my eye. The German at the end means something like "So you can cope with the things that really matter"

youtu.be/2N2eSsIWtNI

That is lovely JackyB - I am sniffling into my Baileys.
Thank you!

Love Celeste's voice so I've ordered her CD due out in January ,the actual ad leaves me cold .Sorry .I like Kevin the carrot too,love the Kilted Kevin but cant get one locally to add to my GD's collection.

I hadn’t seen it before as I do try to avoid them where possible I like the sentiment of this one but don’t like the ad the cartoon characters don’t do anything for me
Not sure what you mean daddima I didn’t see a ‘ bald’ person they were all white men/boys with blond hair.... no girls, no women no one with the slightest tinge of colour no one disabled !!!far from ‘right on’

I thought there was another thread on this year's Christmas ads.

This one brought a tear to my eye. The German at the end means something like "So you can cope with the things that really matter"

youtu.be/2N2eSsIWtNI

Thanks for your kind words Hollyhock1. I felt as you do, that to share that alternative would have been just too much at the conclusion of this difficult year

Iam64

Hollyhock1, a friend posted the alternative on facebook. I couldn't share it because I was sobbing and weeping too much. Also because I love my facebook family and friends and feel they've all been through enough this year.
I must add - I didn't 'lose' my dog on the moors as the man in the ad did. I lost her on midsummers day, to a tumour in her stomach. She collapsed five days earlier, the vet thought she'd had a stroke but it became clear it was more gruesome and life threatening than that. I loved her very much.

Iam64, that's very sad to hear? and I'm very sorry for your loss.
I'm relieved that the alternative wasn't the televised one - at first I thought it was! That would be just too much to bear as the ending to this awful year.

Hollyhock1, a friend posted the alternative on facebook. I couldn't share it because I was sobbing and weeping too much. Also because I love my facebook family and friends and feel they've all been through enough this year.
I must add - I didn't 'lose' my dog on the moors as the man in the ad did. I lost her on midsummers day, to a tumour in her stomach. She collapsed five days earlier, the vet thought she'd had a stroke but it became clear it was more gruesome and life threatening than that. I loved her very much.

I like this year's ad.
Has anyone looked on You Tube for the John Lewis alternative Christmas ad. Warning, it's a sad one- I was in tears after watching that one!!

Sorry, I don’t like it. Song not bad but the way it’s sung is awful and why does it go from real people then several different styles of cartoon. Too sentimental but I agree the sentiments are good. I liked the drawn cartoon bit the best with the snow car.

Thanks for the link I had not seen it as yet,and you are never invisible MawB2

Too ‘right on’ for me, I’m afraid, even a part for baldies and gingers! All it was missing was the disabled person.

It’s lovely! Thanks for the link. Let me assure you MawB2 you are not invisible!
Hope that’s not too many exclamation marks for some people’s liking.

Great link Maw- id not seen MacDs till now.its much more touching than JL one.

John Lewis might have been better just doing a basic 'voiceover' one saying how they know people usually expect a big showy christmas ad from them but this year they're putting more money into donation themselves for collection they're seemingly 'begging' for.(its a good cause yes, but JL themselves need to be showing to be bigger benefactors than us joe public first i think, especially as they've laid folk off) ?

Thanks Maw, that made me smile

No im disappointed in JL advert this year- though i realise they're all trying to do one easier because of social distancing- so they have all gone mostly with animation, but JL usually do it with more style than the others- so no tearkerker this year- also they are wanting to 'play it down' i guess as they're aware people wont like them firing staff then blowing a load on an advert! But i like the kevin the carrot ones always- and the McDs has pipped JL one especially with the beautiful song.Has more feeling in it than JL one.Ive not seen Boots one but they usually do a good one (remember the Nurse coming off nightshift one?) maybe something along those lines will be even more appropriate this year more than ever? I still had a chuckle at the 2016 Kevin carrot/Aldi one where he's sat alone waiting for the JL ad- lovely! (Maybe he should have remade that with a big disappointed sigh when he saw it?)?

No, not their best, for me it goes to the boxer dog on the trampoline!

Aww thanks for the link, really enjoyed it. Don't get to see the advert a lot here in N.Ireland with us having UTV channel, we have a lot of our own adverts. Just sent it to my friend

Thank you Maw, that was my first viewing of it. It is lovely, but wonder what the staff think (those who have had their hours cut or been made redundant)

Thank you Maw - that was lovely!

Oh good link MawB -I'd seen the ad on facebook but missed the link. Good for John Lewis, I'lldonate

Oh I like that advert! Thank you for the link.

I like the way different mediums have been used to create it. That must have given much needed work to several artists rather than just one. I love the ad, and the song. Nice that it will raise money for families in need.

It seems a very uncommercial advert this time. Just right for this year.

Whilst i understand the thinking behind the ad. having seen it once I would not bother to watch it again. Too sugary for me. The only bright spot was the hedgehog trying to sing. They would have had great difficulty in emulating last year's ad. This year - worthy but boring.

Thank you so much for posting this..I do enjoy seeing their Xmas advert