Part of the new rom-com raunch revolution, Sex Tape tries to cash in a new digital phenomenon: the instant, world-wide distribution of videos you might never want to see the light of day. Cameron Diaz (still luminous and mugging for all she’s worth) and Jason Segel (oddly scrawny, especially in a surreal face-off with a huge dog) play Annie and Jay, a frazzled married couple with kids, who – when they try to spice up their marriage again one night by making a hilariously epic sex tape – must spend the rest of the movie atoning for their sexual transgressions. It’s, unfortunately, a mostly flaccid attempt at humour – it tries to be saucy, perky and rude, with an added dollop of heart, but winds up lame and not particularly funny. There are a couple of interesting cameos from Rob Lowe (wigging out weirdly as Diaz’s potential boss) and an uncredited Jack Black but, just like the titular sex tape, this really didn’t need to be distributed to a wider audience.
Basically: Pretty much as embarrassing and hard-to-watch as the sex tape that kicks it all off.
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