Sex Tape stars Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel as Jay and Annie who meet early on in life and are instantly attracted to each other sexually and have a lot of it but 10 years and 2 kids later they struggle to rekindle their spark so they decide to film themselves doing it but this may not have the desired effect they intended it to have.
The worst thing or one of the worst things a movie person can sit through is a comedy that has next to no big laughs in it and I mean genuine laugh out loud laughs and sadly this is the case with Sex Tape as this film is simply not very funny or indeed any fun at all to sit through:
- The first reason for this is that both Jay and Annie are not very likeable leads, don't get me wrong Diaz and Segel have some chemistry and it certainly helps to lift the mood of the scenes they share together but their characters do not show a single ounce of any common sense or practical thinking any time they're on screen and as a result I just sat there feeling bored and wanting to almost fall asleep.
- Asleep is also the key behind my next reason I didn't think this film had any energy in it at all and came across as another US Comedy Club posing as a feature film and after the work that Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have done with the Lego Movie and 22 Jump Street both of which are easily the best comedy films released this year with their high energy direction and endless visual and dialogue gags this sort of slumming it attitude to comedy just isn't good enough as it all goes slow slow slow.
- And lastly the sexual scenes aren't all that erotic now I know this sounds silly given its a comedy but sex scenes should at least have some sort of feeling behind them even if it's just discomfort, recently I finally got to see the ABC Fresh Blood series Bed Head and in one of the episodes was a character nick named Nasty Nicole and well she stole the show in a way that makes this just not work and I did think to myself "Where is she when I need her as this sucks."
So all in all Sex Tape has unlikeable leads and very few laughs and because of that I just cannot recommend it to anyone, .5 out of 5.
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