Sex
Tape
Cameron
Diaz and Jason
Segel are doing it all wrong. You don’t make the sex tape
after you become famous. You make it to become famous and marry Kanye
West. Duh!!!
Diaz and Segel star as Annie and Jay. In the most typical of plots,
they have been married for several years, have a couple of kids, and
lead busy work lives, so the lust has left the bedroom. Trying to
balance work and kids has taken all of the passion out of their
relationship, and they long for the days when they used to live like
bunny rabbits.
To spice it up a bit, Annie and Jay decide to have a massive, epic romp
where they will attempt every position in “The Joy of
Sex” book, and capture it for their own satisfaction. Of
course, they record it with their iPad, and Jay doesn’t
delete it when he wants to erase the evidence of their wild night of
passion.
Instead, it is accidentally sent out to every one of their friends and
family who received an iPad from Annie and Jay (you might want to
become friends with the people who give you an iPad as a gift, then
send you a tape of Cameron Diaz naked).
Can Annie and Jay access each iPad and delete the sex tape before it is
found?
Will they be able to prevent their Ode to Kardashian and Hilton from
going viral?
I never thought a sex tape could be so boring!
This Sex Tape
is horribly bad as Diaz and Segel stumble through the film as if no one
wrote a script and they are the worst improvisational comics on the
planet.
Director Jake Kasdan doesn’t give Sex
Tape any rhythm or energy.
It’s a disjointed movie where Diaz and Segel never truly find
the groove or find any chemistry together as each scene is klunky and
never ending.
Writers Kate Angelo, Nicholas Stoller and Segel can’t seem to
conceive of what each scene is supposed to accomplish or how they are
supposed to fit together, so, while each one starts as if it might be
promising and funny, they all, eventually, become pointless and lost in
some morass of bad timing and lack of material. The audience needs more
repartee, more giggles and more surprises. Instead, we get forced jokes
that aren’t funny from a group of actors struggling to make
something out of nothing.
Plus, you have to wonder why Diaz and Segel were paired together in the
first place. Sure, each one is very funny and talented, but not
together.
The audience is supposed to believe these two characters are the
perfect match for each other, and they have just temporarily lost their
way, but we never feel passion between them when that’s what
we are supposed to be seeing on screen. Segel looks like he is
sleepwalking through most of Sex Tape, while Diaz is the
consummate
trouper attempting to wring an ounce of humor from a script lacking it.
Sex Tape
starts slowly, drags in the middle and doesn’t know when to
end.
Sex
Tape is rated R for strong sexual content,
nudity, language and some drug use.
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