The Best and Worst Super Bowl Commercials 2009

Which commercials scored touchdowns and which fumbled? TIME TV critic James Poniewozik grades the players

Pepsi, "Forever Young"

A year ago, will.i.am was selling Barack Obama's candidacy on YouTube; now he's breathing the "winds of change" for Pepsi, with an Obama-esque logo and tagline ("Every generation refreshes the world"). A mashup with Bob Dylan, whose "Forever Young" provides the soundtrack, assures baby boomers that they still enjoy their God-given right never to be considered old. Across the country, millions of children ask their parents if John Belushi was Jack Black's dad.

Grade: B-

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