Annie and Jay Diaz and Jason Segel , an American couple with two children, use an iPad to film themselves having sex which, because they have no idea about the ins and outs of the iCloud, turns out to be a mistake. Even Jay, though, wants his privacy back. The film is stolen from under their noses by Rob Lowe and Jack Black, playing successful entrepreneurs who — simply because they seem based on real people rather than types — end up having the last word. Black, meanwhile, is the sweaty, paranoid owner of a user-submitted porn site. Why do so many couples want to catch themselves in the act?
Sex Tape review – a timely naughty-but-nice romcom with too few laughs
Sex Tape - film review: 'Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel don't click' | London Evening Standard
These words, spoken by actor Jason Segel, form the crux of a new movie that's due to be released in the US on July As the trailer for "Sex Tape" reveals , Segal and his wife, played by Cameron Diaz, seek to spice up the love life by making a sex tape. The problem with making sex tapes, or so I understand, is keeping them secure. Where should you store them? How should you label them "Mom's fitness video"? What happens if your tape disappears up to the cloud and down to far more iPads than you'd like?
B y the time you read this, the story about intimate photos of female stars apparently hacked from iCloud might be old news. But the stolen photographs and the attendant issues of privacy, celebrity and sexuality could still be current. Whether that would be good PR for this particular Hollywood movie is difficult to tell. Their sex tape threatens to go viral. Does the photo controversy reveal this feelgood romp to be a timely satire, or tactlessly expose it as sentimental and naive, especially as there is just so much promotional branding here for Apple products?
The Internet, it has been said , is a series of tubes. So is the human body. If you are expecting a movie that finds humor in squirming embarrassment and that touches modern anxieties about the loss of privacy and the technological exploitation of the libido, you might be disappointed. Segel and Ms.