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McCann-Erickson has resurrected the 'Just one Cornetto' theme tune for the latest TV campaign for the Unilever-owned Wall's ice-cream brand's Love Potions variants.
The latest campaign, which has a budget of pounds 6.5 million, features three executions, each in the style of an operetta. Each burst shows different people going to exceptional lengths to prise away a Cornetto from anyone who is in possession of one. All of them relate to the love theme.
The first spot, which breaks on 5 April, is filmed on a Moulin Rouge-style set. A woman walks into the room on the theatre stage in a rather dowdy overcoat, carrying her grocery shopping. She sees her partner sitting down eating a Love Potion Cornetto.
The music starts and she sings to her partner: 'New Walls Cornetto, Give it to me.' Her partner, dressed in a shiny shell suit, replies: 'But it's hazelnut chocolate, No chance, honey.'
The woman then tears off her coat to reveal glamorous shiny red underwear, as she sings: 'I've something for you. For you to see. Give me Cornetto, and you'll get me.'
The music then turns into a noisy guitar solo, as the man is so startled by her costume that he hands over the Cornetto.
The ad ends with a voiceover that says: 'Try all six limited- edition Love ...