Something to make you bounce with joy. The John Lewis advert is here!

It just hasn't got enough pathos. It doesn't tug at the heartstrings. Well, not mine anyway.

I think it's nice to have an upbeat one this time round - it made me laugh.

The previous ones really were hard acts to beat.

The German Aldi adverts are very different. No carrot but very tongue in cheek.

Oh dear - I love the idea of all the animals etc., but my daughter is a paediatric ICU nurse and has told us all such horror stories of trampoline injuries that none of us would dare buy one for fear of her wrath. I watched the advert thinking of what her response would be to it(she's in NZ so not likely to see it herself).
I do very much like the spoof one done by the A-level student. I think he captured the essence of JL ads better than they did themselves this year.

Frankly I think its a load of tosh. I know its Christmas (much too early) but IRL the badger would have eaten the hedgehog (they disembowel them and scrape their skins off then eat the remains) the foxes would have had the squirrel and both foxes and badgers would have s**t and urinated all over the trampolene and it would have taken til Boxing Day to scrub it clean. The family would have been up all night listening to that awful fox sex screaming and the boxer dog would have got fleas after rolling on the trampoline. Not my idea of a happy Christmas morning. Kevin the carrot from Aldi is way way better.

Frankly I think its a load of tosh. I know its Christmas (much too early) but IRL the badger would have eaten the hedgehog (they disembowel them and scrape their skins off then eat the remains) the foxes would have had the squirrel and both foxes and badgers would have s**t and urinated all over the trampolene and it would have taken til Boxing Day to scrub it clean. The family would have been up all night listening to that awful fox sex screaming and the boxer dog would have got fleas after rolling on the trampoline. Not my idea of a happy Christmas morning. Kevin the carrot from Aldi is way way better.

try this one m.youtube.com/watch?v=6QdwhJoWUww

and this www.facebook.com/manstuff/videos/1346689075365535/

Granarchist, great post

Just watched the JL and the M&S adverts. We Love Christmas

JL have issued a warning not to let your animals on the trampoline! My only concern (knowing that no real animal was hurt in the making of this ad.) is that people will rush to buy Boxer dogs. Mind you, they probably cost about £1,000 so no wonder the soft toy at £15 has sold out.
I remember my Great-Grandmother - a product of the Victorian Age - when seeing tv for the first time in the 50's, remarked of Muffin the Mule "Isn't it wonderful what they can do with animals these days".
This ad. creates a fantasy situation. like a bit of magic.

I'm uneasy about this ad because it tends to represent wild animals as cute little furry creatures with human attributes. I wish we could respect wild animals for what they really are - with their own attributes, survivors in our countryside for decades.

Yes Daisy you are right, but see this as a little fantasy for Christmas.I honestly think the beautiful soaring song is an atrinsic factor of it's success. JL go for the emotional jugular, although last year's old man in the moon didn't do it for me.

Love it but wish they would wait until after Remembrance Day to start the Christmas adverts

Christmas adverts? Do people really watch them? This thread has been an eye opener for me.
Whilst I am worrying about a moron being elected to the highest political office in the world there are adults of my generation totally invested in bouncing animals.
I despair.

But Esspee we may be worried but we have to have something else to lighten our day otherwise we would be in the depths of despair.

I still think the Obama/Clinton/Trump spoof JL advert is very funny even if the situation isn't.

That's exactly the point Esspee. We can relate to the people in the John Lewis advert. We can even see the same expressions in our own dog, and I'm sure the real foxes in my urban garden get up to no good at night. That's why we invest in it.
Trump in the White House is crazy and beyond our comprehension, so we might as well enjoy the funny moments in life.

Just seen the new Waitress Xmas advert this afternoon.
Check this one out too.

I like that one too, 1974cookie. Simple but effective!

Do you really think our all sitting around worrying 24/7 would actually do any good though, Esspee? Not that I think anyone here is "totally invested" in the Christmas ads. They're just a welcome bit of fun in our very responsible grown up lives.

someone seems to like it (scroll down a bit)

I think this ad. is really good. Love the idea of the animals enjoying Christmas Eve too. Have seen the Sainsbury one, pretty boring. Am off to check out Kevin the carrot now on YouTube, don't watch ITV, too many adverts!

It's an advertisement not real life. granarchist do you think Kevin the carrot is real? Of course not, and most of the animals in the JL advertisement are not real either. Just like Beatrix Potter and the talking rabbits. Yes animals would eat each other just like the bear in last year's advert. Bambi wasn't real either or the animals in Jungle Book. Kids can tell the difference. My DGC goes to bed at night with a whole collection of stuffed animals who would kill her with germs or eat her in real life. I think it is a fun advert. Not sad like last year. My DGC have been injured by trampolines. Also by scooters, bikes, etc. Basically, anyone could find a reason to pick holes in any advertisements matter what the content.

Some of you need to lighten up! Of course it's tosh but it's very funny tosh! I live in the country and I know all about foxes and badgers etc. being vermin but,
so what, as Crafting says, It's an advertisement, not real life. Have you seen the Waitrose ad on U tube. It's brilliant!I don't doubt that the RSPB will advise against feeding robins mince pies though!

This is lovely - the boxer is obviously having such fun
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/dog-has-best-reaction-to-john-lewis-advert_uk_58297bcbe4b0ec3145f8c9d7?

Right on! crafting
Need a bit of fun don't we.

yogagran that's amazing .