Every year, the Super Bowl airs more new commercials per hour than any other show during the year.  And every year, at least half of those commercials suck ass.  These are the ones that sucked the most.

Worst Commercial: Runners-up

The trailer for the Angelina Jolie/Morgan Freeman film Wanted looks like ass.  Granted, this isn't really the same as a bad commercial, but of all the bad movie ads I saw, this looked the worst.  Here's the full theatrical trailer.

 

Taco Bell has a long tradition of crappy commercials.  It's no surprise they offered up another forgettable hunk of junk this year.  Whatever those tacos do to executives' brains over there at Taco Bell, it is not healthy.

 

 

 
Look no further than this spot for SoBe Life Water if you're looking for the lamest POS which incorporates super-lame references to a hit 1980s pop song.  I like classic Michael tunes as much as the next guy, but lampooning the iconic Thriller dance is not cool, not hip, not funny, not retro, not anything.  It's just ... super-lame.

 

 
 
Audi made the colossal mistake of ripping a scene from The Godfather and making it over in an attempt to sell automobiles.  Very misguided.  It just makes no sense!  The act of referencing a cool movie does not make your commercial cool.  It makes your commercial stupid.

 

 
Worst Commercial: Winner!

Planters nuts wins the award for Worst Commercial of 2008!  I can't believe Planters stayed away from the Super Bowl for 10 years in order to bring us ... a contrivance.  This is what they came up with to make their big splash?

What is this commercial trying to say exactly?  Men are attracted to the smell of nuts?  What kind of hidden homosexual agenda is that!?  Men find the smell of nuts irresistible!  We wish we could sniff nuts all day, every day!

Gay innuendo aside, here's a better version of the ad.  Use a super-hot chick (which immediately gets the attention of red-blooded NFL fans) and make the first half of the commercial so that all men ignore her.  Then she applies the 'essence de nuts' and heads back out.  Now men can't resist her!  Her secret for attracting men is not that she's beautiful, it's that she smells like nuts!

Even my version of that commercial sucks.  There's no salvaging that piece of crap.