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After having great success on last year's Super Bowl with Danny Trejo and Steve Buscemi, Snickers has gone with Willem Dafoe and Eugene Levy for this year's spot—which rolled out online Wednesday.
The spot, from BBDO New York, imagines if Marilyn Monroe had been feeling hungry while shooting The Seven Year Itch in 1955—the film which featured her now-iconic scene with her skirt blowing around over a New York City subway grate.
Grumpy Marilyn is played, as many had speculated since the teaser, by Dafoe (last seen in the Super Bowl playing the devil himself in Mercedes-Benz's lavish 2013 spot).
Levy's cameo at the end feels a bit tacked on, and matching the humor of last year's spot was always going to be a tall order.
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