STELLAAAAA!!!!

So this incredibly French thirty seconds of screen has been around since the most recent Super Bowl. In fact, we believe it won recognition in the "most irritatingly like an art house short" category.

Adrian Brody, continuing a trend of increasingly random celebrity cameos in advertising, plays a suave jazz singer in a French bar, serenading the ladies. We weren't exactly sold either. We love you, Adrian, and have nothing against you as an actor, but it seems more likely that all those attractive young woman are weeping because your nose caught them in the eye.

All those poor, disappointed nose-bludgeoning victims realize they were alas not the object of Brody's affections when it is revealed that the whole time, he was singing about his empty beer glass. Once again, that delicate balance between funny and facepalm has been tipped toward the wrong end.

We begrudgingly award Stella Artois points for originality, and will say that there is some refreshment garnered from a beer ad in which no one tries to sell "here we go" as a catchphrase and no overt sexual innuendo is hurled at the viewer. The ad also has a polished look to it, with a muted color scheme and artsy camerawork.

Final verdict: keep trying, Stella. Every time we see that name, we want to scream it as loud as we can outside, over and over again, wearing a dirty white tank top. Maybe its just us?