Sex Tape

7 August 2014 | 12:07 pm | Guy Davis

This alleged comedy is a real mess

Picture the two most unattractive, unappealing people you know. Picture them naked. Picture them getting very, very intimate. Watching that would still be more fun than watching Sex Tape. This alleged comedy is a real mess – sloppily written, lazily directed and halfheartedly performed by people who should know better and have done better elsewhere.

College sweethearts Annie (Cameron Diaz) and Jay (Jason Segel) couldn’t keep their hands off one another back in the day. Lately, however, the demands of careers and children have made the pair involuntarily celibate. Neither is happy about this and their mutual resolution to spice things up – aided by a few shots of tequila – leads to Jay hitting the record button on his new iPad while he and his wife attempt to manoeuvre themselves into every position in the pages of the Kama Sutra.

What Jay doesn’t realise, though, is that he’s accidentally sent the homemade porno to a bunch of his old iPads, given away to family and friends. So begins a mad dash through suburbia to retrieve them before everyone gets to see the couple in a whole new way. The appealingly game Diaz gives it a red-hot go, but Segel frequently comes across as wanting to be doing anything other than appearing in this movie.