This year the Super Bowl commercials send us forward in space and time, testing the very limits of mankind’s goals and imagination, and also there’s Willem Dafoe in a dress. It’s our annual Super Bowl Power Rankings, in which we choose the 10 very best big game commercials that have been released so far. Watch for daily updates to the rankings for the rest of the week as more ads hit YouTube. Onward …
10. Mountain Dew: “PuppyMonkeyBaby”
Sweet Christ, I’ll need a blowtorch and a shovel. This is the first time since 2000 that The Dew has been in the Super Bowl, and it seems as if they’ve taken those 16 intervening years of unused ideas and combined them into one commercial.