Directed by: Jake Kasdan
Starring: Jason Segel, Cameron Diaz, Rob Corrdry, Jack Black
You won't find too many comedies as bereft of laughs as Sex Tape, in which a long-married couple makes a sex video to spice up their marriage, only to accidentally distribute it publicly. The second half of the film involves the couple's desperate attempts to retrieve the video. The film tries doggedly to create any sort of laugh, but there are none to be found.
I'm almost tempted to ask what Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz saw in the script, but Segel co-wrote it so he was blinded by what he thought was his own comic genius. If Cameron Diaz doesn't read scripts before accepting roles like this one, then she should. If she does read the scripts, she should have someone else read them and decide on her behalf whether to accept the role.
Sex Tape is one of those movies in which our married couple lives in a gorgeous suburban Los Angeles home on Segel's income as a guy who works at a radio station. The movie doesn't even bother to explain what he actually does. Diaz writes a blog which captures the attention of a major company that offers her obscene amounts of money to write the blog for them. Her work sounds like the poor man's Carrie Bradshaw as she writes about how the spark has gone out in her marriage. I would love to know how to become an instant millionaire blogger too while we're at it.
We don't actually see the video until near the end. What happens on it is neither funny nor sexy, yet another disappointment considering the buildup surrounding it. My guess is viewers of the video would quickly grow bored and move on to something else. The unfortunate souls who see Sex Tape in a theater won't have the same opportunity.
Cameron Diaz is rarely nude in films and here we see a shot of what is supposed to be her shapely bottom, but the editing is so clumsy that we know it is a body double we're seeing. Sex Tape can't even get that right.
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