The Best and Worst Super Bowl Commercials of 2010

TIME TV critic James Poniewozik grades the ads of Super Bowl XLIV

Monster.com, 'Fiddling Beaver'

Because all beavers dream of mastering the violin, playing concerts to packed houses and getting down with human women in hot tubs, Monster.com is there. Cute ad, but a little disappointed in Monster, which has done some of the most innovative Super Bowl ads, for going the familiar beer-commercial, animated-animal route.

Grade: B

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