I saw the trailer to this film a few weeks back and thought "what a load of rubbish". We arrange to hook up with a few friends and turns out they've seen the film we wanted to watch (lets be cops) and we've seen the film they wanted to watch (the hundred foot journey) so we ended up deciding on sex tape*.
So I went into this film with very low expectations and it started off with a pretty cringeworthy intro with Diaz reading her personal blog entry about sex and how she and her partner had loads of it, it was pretty stupid and didn't really add much. But there were some laughs in there at the stupidity of it. So I settled in thinking right, forget the story just enjoy the silly laughs and so I did. This film has brainless laughs throughout it surprised me that it wasn't as bad as I was expecting it to be and I actually enjoyed watching it moreso than I have a few other recent comedies that I was really looking forward to.
I think if you are going to dissect this film you'll be at it for years, it's terrible. However, for brainless laughs and a bit of awkward comedy it's great; take that mindset when watching and it's quite enjoyable. Don't be expecting brilliance, but it's OK.
So I went into this film with very low expectations and it started off with a pretty cringeworthy intro with Diaz reading her personal blog entry about sex and how she and her partner had loads of it, it was pretty stupid and didn't really add much. But there were some laughs in there at the stupidity of it. So I settled in thinking right, forget the story just enjoy the silly laughs and so I did. This film has brainless laughs throughout it surprised me that it wasn't as bad as I was expecting it to be and I actually enjoyed watching it moreso than I have a few other recent comedies that I was really looking forward to.
I think if you are going to dissect this film you'll be at it for years, it's terrible. However, for brainless laughs and a bit of awkward comedy it's great; take that mindset when watching and it's quite enjoyable. Don't be expecting brilliance, but it's OK.