I was browsing over at news.com.au when I saw an ad with Jackie Chan pop up. This in itself isn’t that much of a big deal but the ad was for Kaspersky anti virus.

Jackie Chan and Kaspersky antivirus…really?

Unfortunately I didn’t screen grab it before it rotated and for the life of me I couldn’t get it to come up again. Seriously I refreshed the page like 200 times, if I see another freaking ad for Samsung…

Update 27/11/09: The ad seems to be getting a bit more airplay and I managed to grab it the other day. I’ve included it on the right.

In any case curious about the ad I did a quick search and turns out the ad was made much earlier this year, not sure why it took so long to air here.

The banner ad is actually a stripped down version of the television campaign, which is just horrendously cheesy to watch:


I know when I turn my pc on that’s exactly what my internet experience is like. It’s like they came to my house and filmed me using the internet!

I’m also pretty sure Eugene Kaspersky can’t speak mandarin (or cantonese?)… also Kaspersky’s ‘Command and Conquer: Red Alert’ accent… ARGHHHH!

Although I’ve never seen any of them aired here, turns out Chan’s got quite the repertoire of cheesy ads:

Hanes really used Michael Jordan to maximum effect in this tshirt ad:


No shit they really got their moneys worth there.

This TD Waterhouse ad was pretty corny too.


If that’s what’s going on in the average stock brokers home no wonder we had the global financial crisis.

This Pepsi ad wasn’t too bad, if Chan didn’t deliver the two cheesy ‘that’s gunna hurt’ lines it’d actually be pretty good!


I think Pepsi blew all their creative budget advertising Diet Pepsi, this next Mountain Dew ad must have taken them a whole 10 seconds to have come up with.


Finally this Woolworths ad is barely watchable.

Cheesy ads isn’t the only thing Chan gets up to though, he also does concerts. Man we thought Britney Spears miming was bad… I can only imagine the new depths of cringeworthy that a Jackie Chan concert plummets to.


When I was a kid growing up Chan was one of my favourite actors to watch. Sure his movies were cheesy but they were still brilliant to watch action wise. Chan in a scene with 100 badguys and action was just brilliant!

I know some ‘purists’ will whinge about how his Hong Kong movies are way better then the westernised stuff but I don’t care. I don’t speak cantonese and subtitles are annoying.

Having said that I’ll happily jump on the ‘why on earth was Chan cast as Mr. Miyag’ in the upcoming Karate Kid remake bandwagon though. That’s one role that has absolutely no need for martial arts comedic cheesiness. Ugh.. I get Uwe Boll’ism just thinking about it.

I assume Chan has plenty of money so I don’t know why he feels the need to do mostly stupid ads. Personally I’d rather he kept to movies… after firing whoever got him the Karate Kid gig.

1. What the hell is Volley Warehouse?