Evian's roller-skating babies advert becomes YouTube sensation

An hilarious new TV ad featuring roller-skating babies has become an internet sensation.

The video of babies in nappies performing skating stunts to a hip-hop beat has been watched 3.8 million times on YouTube alone in the past week.

A child's first steps are a proud moment for any parent but the daredevil 'roller-babies' leap over fences and railings as well as each other in a city park.

After pressing play on a giant ghetto blaster that is bigger than them, they also execute all manner of flips and somersaults.

The troupe of 96 special-effects roller-babies groove to a remix of the Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight.

The 60-second film was shot at London's Pinewood Studios as part of mineral water brand Evian's Live Young' international TV and web video campaign.

The ad is proving a huge hit online with YouTube viewers alone watching the US version almost 1.8 million times.

The international version has been seen over 1.5 million times and the French clip over 500,000 times.

The Evian babies were last screened 11 years ago performing an underwater ballet.