Jake Kasdan directs Sex Tape, a story of a couple trying to spice up their sex life with calamitous results.
Set in US suburbia, married couple Jay and Annie try to recapture their passion by making an Sex Tape. From their lust filled early years, to their desperate attempt to rekindle their marriage resulting in disaster, this film fails to raise a smile never mind anything else.
Jason Segal and Cameron Diaz are excellent as Jason Segal and Cameron Diaz. Though both are harmless screen presences, their characters fail to resemble anything approaching a real life couple. Likewise, the married couple of Rob Corddry and Ellie Kemper fail to resemble anything approaching actual real people, never mind a married couple with kids.
With a premise more suited to a 30 minute sitcom, the film soon runs out of steam a third of the way in. The fundamental problem is that the film feels like it was written by someone who has only written dumb teen comedies and has been asked to apply the same stupidity to story about a group of thirtysomethings. As result the film is desperately lacking in laughs and sympathetic characters, instead of having people we can relate to and route for we have smug brat kids and coke head bores. All of this could be forgiven if it was funny, but sadly it’s anything but and with it’s constant references to iPads it ends up feeling like nothing more than a unfunny 90 minute Apple advert.
A laugh free comedy that doesn’t know whether it’s for teenagers and 30 year olds, this sex film is a flop.
‘Sex Tape’ opens in cinemas around the UK from September 3rd.
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