Sex Tape

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UK Release Date: September 3rd 2014

A married couple wake up to discover that the sex tape they made the evening before has gone missing, leading to a frantic search for its whereabouts.

Director: Jake Kasdan (Bad Teacher)

Starring: Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Rob Corddry, Ellie Kemper

What were they thinking? This doesn't just apply to the couple whose sex tape (which isn't even a tape, but a USB) is leaked, but to the script writers decisions and nonsensical humour that's displayed for the world to see. 

Sex Tape sees the once young and lusty couple Jay (Segel) and Annie (Diaz) now old and rusty. Their sex lives are like an empty wallet, nothing left but cobwebs and moths. The worst possible idea, to spice up their sex life, is to make their own sex video. Nothing good will come of it, and that just goes to show in this ludicrous comedy.

Apple's very own software known to most as 'The Cloud' or 'iCloud' sends their tape (we shall say tape to avoid confusion) through digital space to land on their associates and friends' iPads. This includes their best friends Robby (Corddry) and Tess (Kemper), Annie's strange boss and the postman. 

Jay and Annie go through such stupidly erratic ordeals in order to retrieve the devices and delete the contents. Instead of asking for the iPads, they blow it out of proportion by consuming drugs, knocking out a dog, jumping off a roof, and weirdest of all, taking their young kids with them as they break and enter a building. 

Everything else in Sex Tape falls apart because of what's been scripted. The foundations of a good story are there, but the delivery is abysmal. Diaz and Segel have no chance.

Sex Tape is funnier when it's not trying so hard to break the audiences sense of disbelief. Corddry and Kemper's couple are spot on with their humour. They are the stereotypical nosey couple who make things awkward for Jay and Annie round every turn. The comedy is secondary because Sex Tape is primarily a glorified Apple advert.