For a film that talks a lot about sex and is rated R16, Sex Tape is surprisingly tame, perhaps too tame.
It features plenty of nudity - from behind - of its star couple, a slimmed down Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz, some amusing sexual gymnastics and the occasional laugh-out-loud moment, but overall Sex Tape is a half-hearted effort.
Segel and Diaz play suburban couple Jay and Annie, who decide to liven up their sex life by making a three-hour tape documenting the positions in the book The Joy of Sex. Segel, who has a habit of giving away his work iPad - including to his mother-in-law, best friend (Corddry), wife's potential new employer (Rob Lowe) and the mailman -- is alerted by a mysterious text that he's forgotten to delete their sexual escapade from his computer, which is synced via the cloud to all the iPads.
In a crazed panic Annie and Jay set about retrieving the tablets and deleting their humiliating video.
The setup feels contrived - who'd give the postman an iPad for Christmas? - and Annie and Jay's reaction to what happens feels forced, with their energetic performances an attempt to give the story some momentum.
