Film Review: “Sex Tape”
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It was all but inevitable that Hollywood would one day try to one-up its catalog of comedic raunchfests with a spoof of the ever-popular sex tape (thank you, Kim Kardashian). Unfortunately, what makes for the launching of a real life career as a celebutard does not necessarily translate into a first-rate comedy. In fact, once foreplay is over, you’re kind of hoping the whole thing ends as quickly as possible.
The movie stars Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel as a longtime married couple who feel that the sexual spark of their relationship has long since extinguished. To juice things up, they make a sex tape, which of course they end up sending to every single person they know by accident because no one understands iCloud. The rest of the movie they spend trying to hide the video, deny its existence, and maneuver all sorts of blackmail.
It sounds like it could have been funny: unfortunately, the laughs are few and far between because the film doesn’t know what it’s trying to make fun of. Instead of focusing on the couple’s mortifying embarrassment at the tape getting out to literally everyone they know, it meanders off into a series of episodes that really don’t have anything to do with the premise of the film (see: Rob Lowe as collector of bad art).
Diaz (Queen of the Raunchy Comedy) and Segel do what they can with the material, but as neither one is a particularly expert comic foil, it feels forced and obviously staged.
Final verdict? Wait for the Comedy Central edited broadcast.
