foreign
06/26/2007
Nicole Kidman for Nintendo DS
Nicole Kidman turned forty last week, and as this European commercial for Nintendo DS reminds us, the brain is the first thing to go. Here, angelic-looking Kidman is distressed to find that her "brain score" is 52, which is apparently pretty dire. (Guess that's what happens when you use up all your energy making sure everything in your home and your wardrobe is the exact same shade of white.)
To remedy the situation, Kidman jumps into a rigorous Nintento DS game of... Rock, Paper, Scissors. I'm not sure exactly how that particular game gives your brain a workout, but then again, my brain score's not 52.
Nowadays, those lucrative, super-secret commericials celebs do overseas just aren't so secret anymore, and they know it. Does this mean a trend away from the truly enjoyably embarassing ads of yore? (Well, we've always got Nic Cage.) Kidman may look fantastic here, but she's still advertising herself as being dumb as a bag of rocks (or paper or scissors). So I just don't know.
11/20/2006
Masterly Ham
Comedy is not typically international. What's funny to America may not play in Europe and vice/versa. Barring the occasional Jerry Lewis and Sacha Baron Cohen, most comedy is lost in translation.
This is one such example of the humor barrier featuring a Ham Sandwich telling a young boy an inconvenient truth. It is the English version of a Belgian advertisment, that one hopes had them rolling in the aisles in its homeland. Or at least buying a lot of ham.
But nothing could convince me that puppet isn't universally creepy...
