Bad ads for the Panther

I went to GV Tampines Mall yesterday with my brother and cousins to see The Pink Panther. I'm pretty sure the franchise is way older than me, and the producers want to milk all the laughs they can get.
'Milk' is an understatement. More like 'squeeze'. That's not to say I didn't like the show, though--it's practically everything a bumbling-cop movie should be, only minus the intelligence. Steve Martin's Inspector Clouseau is just SO dimwitted I wonder how the French police force lets people like him in. And pity the poor Tour de France bikers whenever he's around.
In fact, Pink Panther follows the same Basic Formula as the 2003 spy spoof Johnny English: lousy agent makes mistake after mistake while his coolheaded assistant does all the deduction, the final mistake gets him sent off the force, then he makes a brilliant masterstroke that regains him the case, respect and the bad guy. It's been done to death, and frankly is no longer interesting.
But there are priceless gags to be found, if and when you're in a mood to enjoy them. Trust me, it's hard to see this movie without laughing out loud, though I don't recall any joke worth retelling.

Except maybe the one involving the electrodes.

OK, enough on the movie. What really got me mad was the Total Defence commercial that played in the ads before the movie (hey, someone has to keep ticket prices down, right?). It showed a cartoon of a man in a long-sleeved shirt and trousers (I think--the animation was bad)entering a door and suddenly getting stomach pains. He then holds up a parody of a box of paracetamol tablets (the brand name replaced with the Total Defence arrows) and his tummyache's gone. Why?
The scene cuts inside his organs, which are under attack by a giant, roaring blob that is quickly dispatched by green-clad circles spraying machine-gun fire at it, after which other anthropomorphic circles representing the rest of the Total Defence spheres cheer loudly.

It made me want to throw up. The schoolgirls who did this are to be commended for their effort, though the final product came across as oversimplifying and patronising those of us who serve 2 years and then get out as quietly as possible. Military Defence totally overshadows everything else, in other words, and the rosy, propaganda-friendly picture painted isn't helping.
And why did their school name appear in huge lettering at the end? Instead of "So this is the school that produces such patriotic youth!" I was thinking, "Ahh, now I know who's responsible for this!"

And no complaints that if I don't like the ad why don't I design my own? To which I've always been tempted to reply, "If you don't like the service in a restaurant why don't you work for it and give your own?"