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Critics Consensus: With neither the conviction to embrace its smutty premise nor enough laughs to function as a worthwhile rom-com, the flaccid Sex Tape suffers from cinematic impotence.
Critic Consensus: With neither the conviction to embrace its smutty premise nor enough laughs to function as a worthwhile rom-com, the flaccid Sex Tape suffers from cinematic impotence.
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In short, it's a PG plot for an X-rated story.
Not especially funny or sexy.
A tired premise and a sheen of desperate flop sweat tanks this DOA comedy, which plays more like an ancient Playboy doodle than a full-fledged movie.
Even for a farce, the situations stretch credulity far beyond the breaking point.
It's strange to watch a comedy full of talented people that does not work from the opening scene. It's like eating food and not tasting anything.
Sex Tape is warmer and more amusing than its ads would lead one to believe. In fact, it's almost good enough, leaning a little too hard on the innate likability of stars Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel.
Diaz and Segel are genuinely funny people, who had good chemistry in "Bad Teacher." That chemistry isn't the same here, with the actors saddled in a ridiculous plot that is never as clever as it thinks it is.
Nothing in this film works. It has clearly been put together by people who have been given an idea via conference call of what a film looks like and sounds like, but have no idea how to fit everything together.
There's humour in here for sure, but some more of that playful silliness in between the unnecessary bits would have made this a better watch.
Sex Tape underperforms even worse than Jay himself -- it is unfunny, predictable and very strenuous.
Beneath the bad dialogue, bad chemistry, bad editing and bad pacing of the film, a much darker and more serious issue lurks.
Segel and Diaz have a great rapport, and though nothing innovative or rip-roaring happens in the extended comic setpieces, the whole enterprise is enjoyable enough, pure Not As Bad As It Looks.
In a film called "Sex Tape" an angry German Shepherd nearly steals the movie. That just is wrong. Rob Lowe does some interesting work.
Super Reviewer
It was okay. Not as bad as the reviews suggest. Idea was funny, though a bit thin (would you really give your postman an iPad and share all your content with him?!). It definitely has its faults and huge plot holes, but actually it was okay to watch once.
A cluster fuck of a movie, although amusing, it's charm runs dry.
A 20-minute sitcom story stretched into a 90-minute feature film that is sloppily constructed and actually would have a bit of potential in better hands. Cameron Diaz and Jason Segal are fine as the leading duo and their interactions with people after their sex "file" is released can be quite funny, but that is only due to the fact that the film has a funny and likable cast. In the end it just throws lame and over the top cliches at your face while hammering in some family life lessons that you will not care about, because it doesn't have anything to do with the movie. Moral of the story, don't make a sex tape unless you are in the business, because it will not lead to anything good. Something I could have read in an online article. "Sex Tape" hits a few times and I chuckled, but it's basic premise and unoriginal climax ruins anything the film had going for it. Would I ever recommend this film? Oh hell no, but if you have nothing else to watch on television, give it a go just to see the mediocrity for yourself. I may not be as harsh on this as I should be, but the actors elevated it for me.
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