As it turns out, that Ferris Bueller commercial is kind of a bummer
Super Bowl commercials are rarely as awesome as the hype that surrounds them, so when the 10-second teaser came out for this “Matthew Broderick as maybe Ferris Bueller?” commercial hit last week, we all should have known better than to get our hopes up. The full version of the Honda CR-V commercial hit the Internet today. While it’s kind of blandly fun, it doesn’t really come close to capturing the madcap, seat-of-your-pants tomfoolery of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. But then again, what does?
In the clip, a floppy-haired and besweatered Broderick calls off from shooting some nondescript movie-type project, claiming illness. He then galavants around Los Angeles—which is not Chicago, and is therefore not okay—popping up sadly Cameron-less everywhere from the Natural History Museum to a Chinatown parade. He does all of this, of course, in a totally grown-up small SUV, which viewers are supposed to believe is as terminally boss as a 1961 Ferrari.
It’s a cute commercial and all, but, as comedian Rob Delaney pointed out this morning on Twitter, no one should be “bummed that John Hughes didn’t live to see” this thing, even if he did write and direct Curly Sue.
