Sex was never this funny! Lol
It begins with
explaining how boring your life can be when you grow up. A couple discovers
that marriage and two kids makes ex almost impossible. And before they know it,
the hardly remember how good they were at it. How do they spice it up, how do
they get it back? They do something crazy to turn on the heat, which in this
case happens to be a three hour long sex tape where they pretend to be sex
gurus showing each and every position in the ‘book’. But technology has robbed
us of so much privacy that even the most intimate of moments cannot be kept
private. A few careless hours, and before they know their raunchy porn video is
on the ‘cloud’ network. Now, almost everyone who is someone in their lives,
which includes their kids and the mailman, is one click away from seeing the
wild carnal details that they filmed in such detail. It’s a mad scramble to
retrieve their ‘honor’ before it all goes up in ‘porny’ smoke.
‘Sex Tape’ is
all about that mad scramble and less about the
But, serious
stuff aside, the movie is really a lot of fun. Thanks mainly to its lead pair
of Jason Segel and Camerone Diaz. They have played the devoted couple who
realize that they are ageing but yet want to have a shot at their younger, more
romantic days again, with conviction. And, they share a good comic timing,
which makes their verbal exchanges really enjoyable. And, the script has written
in a couple of tailor-made situations for slapstick humor which thankfully work
quite well without stretching out for too long. There is a bit of melodrama
towards the end, and a scene in a huge server room, which seems a bit too far
fetched. But, we can understand the writer’s lack of options to effectively
finish the script on a sweet note. The pre-climatic portions definitely do not
live up to the energy and fun of the earlier parts.
Finally, if
there is one thing about the movie that is
Mostly witty and
funny – not sexy!
2.75/5
