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Review: Sex Tape

By Christine Petralia

Image courtesy of Columbia Pictures

July 27, 2014

 

Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed Sex Tape, but I felt like it was sort of a PSA about getting married and having kids. Basically, your sex life goes away after all those fun things happen in your life. Now, as someone who is not married nor has kids, I cannot attest to this. But, if this is what actually happens, I’m just going to live in sin forever.  That aside, Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel are on top of their game as they play Annie and Jay, a couple who used to have sex anytime and any place, until they ‘grow up.’

 

Ten years after being that horny couple, Annie and Jay are realizing they must make time for sex, something that clearly bugs them but obviously not enough to do something about it. Until Annie gets a lead on a selling her mommy blog and decides to spice things up. She ships her kids off to her mother’s house and puts on her best roller girl outfit, much to Jay’s surprise and delight. But, soon they realize it’s been so long, they aren’t that in sync anymore. Decided to add alcohol to help with the awkwardness, Annie comes up with a great idea to make a sex tape, on their iPad (though I don’t even know how they even got all those angles and let it run for three hours, but I digress). After doing every position in the Joy of Sex book, they are both satisfied and exhausted and Jay not only forgets to erase the video, but sends it up to the ‘cloud.’

 

A few days later, Jay gets a text from an unknown number saying they liked his sex video and the pair freak out. They make a list of everyone who is part of their cloud account or has their devices synced up and try to get the iPads back. Among the few are their friends, Robbie (Rob Corddry) and Tess (Ellie Kemper), as well as Annie’s potential new boss, Hank (Rob Lowe). They head over to Robbie and Tess’ and eventually confess to what happened. The two, somewhat intrigued and turned on, offer to help get the iPad from Hank’s. And what happens at Hank’s is just ridiculous. Someone who Annie thought was very conservative is actually somewhat of a freak, indulging in death metal and cocaine while his family is away.

 

After successfully erasing the videos from some iPads, they find out that Robbie and Tess’ son Howard is the one who texted Jay. He threatens to upload the video to YouPorn if they don’t give him $25,000. Obviously, they don’t give him the money, so instead they find the YouPorn headquarters, break in and try to destroy the main server. They are caught by the owner (Jack Black). After some convincing, they manage to get the video taken down, get a life lesson from the YouPorn owner and are $15,000 in the hole to pay for the damage.

 

Just when all is well, Jay and Annie have one more close encounter and their son’s moving up ceremony. Howard then informs Jay he has erased all other copies and gives him a hard drive with the remaining copy. The pair watch the video one last time before destroying it.

 

There were some pretty fantastic moments in Sex Tape, including the whole Rob Lowe scene. While I felt it was completely random and a little unrealistic, it was still great because Lowe is just over the top, as he usually is. And watching Segel battle with a watchdog is pretty funny. Corddry and Kemper are also great as the horny sidekick friends who get off on watching their friends’ sex tape. Those two are very underrate as actors. And while I do love Diaz and Segel, and thought they were really funny, I thought they lacked a little bit of chemistry.

 

All in all, it was a great summer comedy. 

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