Sex Tape

Just lie back and think of funnier films.

"Sex Tape" is an unaccountable drag – strained, toothless and far too tame to achieve the sort of outrageous, raunchy-titillating effect...

The whole problem with "Sex Tape" in a sentence: After its first third, the two lead characters just run around trying to prevent somethi...

The folks behind Sex Tape did their homework. They just forgot the laughs.

Not especially funny or sexy.

The main reason that "Sex Tape," while often quite funny, fails to qualify as a comedy is the absence of any real conflict or complication.

Since it’s a comedy, much could be forgiven if the film was consistent in generating laughs, but the comedy is as erratic as the couple...

Sex Tape is warmer and more amusing than its ads would lead one to believe. In fact, it’s almost good enough, leaning a little too hard...

Given its subject matter and R rating, "Sex Tape" isn’t as wild or woolly as it could be.

Yes, there are some laughs, but they’re not as big or as frequent as one might expect from a would-be "major" comedy.

For a movie filled with amateur porn, sex toys, cocaine and Cameron Diaz’s butt, "Sex Tape" is awfully tame.

Sexcruciating.

This movie sometimes resembles an R-rated Apple infomercial – Segel actually delivers an enthusiastic monologue about the hi-res camera on the...

A case study in how little interest American movies-and especially American sex comedies-have in dealing with sex as anything other than a sou...

By the time a blackmailing plot is introduced, the film seems to be surviving solely on the fumes of curse words and frequent shots of Jason S...

How could a movie that offers Jason Segel riffing on sex and Cameron Diaz regularly disrobing be so dull?

[A] stilted, nearly humorless, non-titillating slog …

It’s fitfully funny and exuberantly eager to please. The chief problem with Sex Tape, however, is that it remains a comedy of blushes as...

This gormless farrago feels like the manifestation of a vast collective nervous breakdown.

Preposterous yet boring. Sex Tape doesn’t fall off the cliff of competence so much as it executes a slow, agonized mudslide of failed in...

Even for a farce, the situations stretch credulity far beyond the breaking point.

If the first half of the movie is fairly sharp as these things go, the second half is increasingly, noisily ridiculous, with Diaz working extra har...

"Sex Tape" doesn’t seduce, it doesn’t surprise and it certainly doesn’t satisfy. It only leaves you feeling a little ta...

Given all the name-brand products invoked, their misadventure suggests a sort of nightmarish shopping spree.

I laughed a few times in the early bits, and there’s a central segment with Rob Lowe that’s genuinely bizarre and funny. And...

I counted three laughs in this wannabe bawdy comedy of errors, and one of them was a Breaking Bad gag so far past its tell-by date that even I...

It is a bland, clawless comedy; a cautionary tale of a high concept gone horribly, horribly wrong.

Limp.

Gag and plot often seem unrelated, as though Segel and his regular co-writer, Nicholas Stoller, were trying to protect the characters from the cons...

As timid, bland, and predictable as romantic comedies come …

For a movie about amateur porn, Sex Tape is fundamentally conservative in its treatment of sex.

Instead of soft core, "Sex Tape" offers no core. No narrative core, just a not-bad notion executed execrably; no core of conviction, just...

Sex is treated first as brainless imperative, then as acrobatic duty, then as desperate consequence – it’s never sexy in any way.

It’s a one-joke movie that feels like a one-joke movie.