Culture

Rating: C+

I have never come so close to walking out of a movie as I did in Sex Tape. A likable cast and an interesting premise were enticing enough to attend, but after sitting through an hour of the blandest humour imaginable, I just about lost it.

Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz play a bored married couple that, in order to rekindle their sex life, decide to get sloshed and make a sex tape which they film on an iPad. They soon realise that their sinful smut has been uploaded onto the cloud that is attached to several other pre-owned iPads they have handed out to their friends and colleagues who can now view the video. And so begins a quest of dumb proportions to retrieve the iPads. Jason Segel, whom I normally love, really did not have enough room to stretch his wings, which I blame on a poorly written script. Almost every joke falls flat, and the few laughs you do get are from a small number of funny scenes that are few and far between. But even those are drawn out and milked dry until you are begging for the story to progress. The most memorable scene was with Jack Black as the owner of YouPorn, but even his unique brand of comedy didn’t bring about much more than a chuckle.

Possibly the most impressive thing about this film was Jason Segel’s weight loss; he’s no longer the funny chubby guy from Forgetting Sarah Marshall and he looks not too far from what you could expect the husband of Cameron Diaz to look like. Some may be pleased to know that Cameron Diaz has a decidedly large amount of flesh on display, but side boobs and butts just don’t cut the metaphorical cheese of humour for anyone over the age of 12. Also, at the start of the film they were panicking because the mailman has one of the iPads, but then they never retouched that plot thread. Whoever wrote the film may need a holiday.