Uncle G’s FUN Movie Reviews: Sex Tape (2014)

First Published: Tuesday, 22 July 2014

Uncle G’s FUN Movie Reviews
Spotlight: Sex Tape (2014)

By Gary “Uncle G” Brown – American Correspondent for Classic Rock Radio (UK)

The purpose of leaving the house and spending what little disposable income one would have nowadays to see a movie is to be entertained. Have a little fun escaping reality, and sweating out the new crop of monthly bills. This past weekend, the big movie at the box office was about a bunch of pissed off monkeys. Deciding to skip that, my lovely wife and I went and saw the new R-rated Cameron Diaz comedy, Sex Tape.

For the most part, the sex comedy played well throughout. Cameron Diaz portrays a middle-aged married mother in her forties, with her on-screen husband played by Jason Segel (best known for the comedy TV series, How I Met Your Mother). Add two kids, and pop them down in a typical working middle-class neighborhood, going through the everyday ups and downs of trying to make a living and raising children. A situation, many couples know all too well. Throw in stress and pressure, and what used to be a super active sex life for our star couple is now just pleasant memories. When the problem is realized, the solution, when set free, becomes the main topic for this adult comedy.

Official Promo Photo – Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel – Sex Tape (2014)

I grew up in the late seventies and early eighties watching R-rated sex comedies being broadcast from something new at the time, called CABLE TV. Real late at night, I’d come home drunk/stoned or both, turn on the boob tube, and find…naked female boobies! Of course, better in real life, but I was married, and besides going to a strip bar, this was as real as it was getting for me, at that given moment. Many other males can identify, I’m sure.

A couple of my favorite sex comedies would be Porky’s and the only cheerleader film I’d still watch to this day, called HOTS (Google it). Both were hysterically funny and had females over the age of 18 in various forms of undress. Laughs and nudity. Sometimes both at once. Enough to make a guy pop his cork, should he not be able to contain himself.

Over the decades, Hollywood changed. What they call raunchy comedies nowadays are usually nothing more than yet another platform for toilet humor, specifically aimed at those fourteen years of age. Nothing really worth going to a theater, or even driving to the nearest Red Machine for. So when I heard about Sex Tape, I decided to make it a date night for my wife and me, and off we went, in search of a good time. Since March, we have experienced two medical operations for me, and a move to a house 20 miles from where we previously were. If anyone deserved a good time out for a few hours, it was us.

For the record, I hate porn. Too many negative vibes for me personally. Nudity, on the other hand, I’m more than cool with. As long as no one is being taken advantage of, or hurt in any way, then…what the hell. Human beings are, after all, for several stages of their existence, all sexual creatures. Watching an otherwise normal middle-aged couple, reenact the Joy Of Sex book from decades ago…funny premise. In a world of fancy technology, where major occurrences happen by just moving a cursor over something and clicking, mind-blowing situations can occur in the blink of an eye. As is what happened in the new movie, Sex Tape.

Regarding the actual nudity, it’s not over the top. Expect to see bare butts, both male and female. Besides that, I don’t consider something like a side-boob a big deal. Other parts are covered in creative ways and done so for a more comedic effect. So no full-frontal !! Nothing to panic about. It’s OK, for it’s the story and acting that carry the film anyway. As a matter of fact, one of the funniest parts involves Cameron Diaz’s dressed co-star and a dog. Seriously, laugh-out-loud moments. Which is what the other people in the theater were doing, besides us. Several times throughout the film, I noticed that happening. Sex Tape also has an interesting supporting cast of characters, with some portrayed by familiar faces; Rob Lowe (hands down…excellent performance) / that chick from TV’s The Office (Ellie Kemper), and an uncredited actor by the name of Jack Black.

Rating: Using the one-to-ten-star count like they do on the IMDB (Internet Movie Database) website, Uncle G gives ‘Sex Tape’ eight stars! I know…why not ten? For one, a scene where our two main characters are in an automobile alone could have been presented better. Too much dialogue as well, which made me, the viewer, happy when it was over. So maybe just some tightening up? I will go on record saying that after having experienced the film, I summed it up to the misses, saying that it was money well spent. We were long overdue for having a good time. Time spent decompressing from the previous week’s bullshit is important. And better going out to your local theater to see Sex Tape than the computer-generated popcorn flick, with the damn dirty apes in it.

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