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An average movie

Posted : 7 years, 8 months ago on 7 August 2016 06:03

Since this movie had a rather lame reputation, I wasn't expecting much but since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. Honestly, I do think that the whole thing actually had some potential, unfortunately, pretty much nothing did work, I'm afraid. The first thing that irritated me was this gimmick to have all the parents hating to have their children. Indeed, this gimmick is always rather cringe-inducing, especially when you think that the generation of my grandparents or before used to have often above 5 kids and, yet, in those movies,  when they have only have 2 of them, the parents seem to go through some hell. Then, the other thing that annoys me is that, ever since I had some kids, I always find it too easy to spot actors trying to play some parents when they don't have any kids in real life and this movie was not an exception. The next problem was that even though Jason Seger was a perfect choice,  on the other hand, Cameron Diaz was rather poorly cast. I mean,  does anyone believe that any guy would have some trouble to have sex with their wife, even 15 years later,  if she would look anything like Cameron Diaz? Even if she tried her best, it is obvious that the whole thing would have worked better with someone who looked 'normal' or at least not like a previous top-model, like Tina Fey  for example. Those were only the issues occurring during the first 10 minutes but the rest of the movie was not much better, I'm afraid. To conclude,  it was another comedy with a decent concept which turned out to be really poorly developed and I don't think the whole thing is really worth a look. 


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"Sex Tape" (2014)

Posted : 9 years, 6 months ago on 8 October 2014 01:18

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Married couple Jay and Annie try to reignite their sex life by making… well, the eponymous sex tape – but Jay accidentally ends up synchronising it to several iPads before distributing them.
I usually find sex comedies insufferable, but this was a surprising exception – thanks mostly to the interplay between the two leads. The way Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel work off each other makes the dialogue sound natural and improvised, and never fails to amuse.
There's a running gag about how Jay keeps taking things far further than he needed to, which could easily make him look like an irredeemable idiot, but somehow that joke works too.
The whole sequence with the dog had me in stitches!
There were some gags that went a bit too far, like the blackmail scene. And any scene involving lying had me grinding my teeth, especially since some of those parts went on for too long.
But overall, much to my surprise, I liked this movie – although, judging from Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb, I seem to be a minority on that.

My rating: 70%


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Sex Tape review

Posted : 9 years, 6 months ago on 3 October 2014 02:57

I have been wanting to see this for awhile mostly because I think Jason Segel is hilarious. I'm not too much a fan of Cameron Diaz though as I find her kind of annoying. Anyways I thought the premise was hilarious and looked like it could be a fun watch. There were some scenes here and there that were somewhat funny. Seeing Jason Segel naked is still weird and uncomfortable though. Cameron Diaz isn't much for showing herself so I wonder if the scenes showing her butt are really her butt or if it's a body double. This kind of reminds me of the recent trouble some celebrities had recently of their private pictures being sent out to the world. Some things were left unanswered which is probably okay for most people. It was actually pretty boring except for a few scenes. I think I laughed out loud only once or twice. It's just not a good movie.


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