Sex Tape (2014)
Directed by Jake Kasdan
No — Sex Tape is not woke, scoring 2 out of 100 on our wokeness meter.
Sex Tape is a 2014 studio sex comedy with no evident interest in the culture wars.
Consciousness Markers
The principal cast is uniformly white with no evident diversity-driven casting agenda; the ensemble reflects default mainstream Hollywood comedy casting of its era.
Annie is a working mother who wishes to reclaim her sexuality, but the film treats this as a raunchy comedy premise rather than a feminist statement and leans on objectifying humor.
The couple breaks into YouPorn's server room to destroy hardware, but this is played for slapstick rather than any critique of wealth or corporate power.
This is a broad sex comedy with no preachy or didactic agenda; any message is incidental.
No LGBTQ+ characters, themes, or subtext appear anywhere in the film.
Race is never a subject or theme; the story is entirely unconcerned with racial dynamics.
No environmental or climate content whatsoever.
No body-positivity messaging; the film's humor about bodies is conventional and at times mocking rather than affirming.
No neurodivergent characters or themes are present or addressed.
The film has no historical subject matter to revise.
Why it received this score
Sex Tape is a 2014 studio sex comedy with no evident interest in the culture wars. It wants to be raunchy, then mildly tender about marriage, then raunchy again. The cast is a monument to default Hollywood whiteness of its era. That is not an accusation. It is a census. The film has no interest in race, no interest in queerness, and no interest in climate. Its universe is iPads, mild cocaine, and the cloud. It exists to fill a summer weekend and then vanish into the home media bin.
Annie, a working mother, has a flicker of sexual reclamation. The film treats that flicker as a premise for slapstick. It is not a feminist tract. It is a movie where Cameron Diaz tries cocaine and Jason Segel wrestles a German shepherd. The body humor is conventional and sometimes mocking. There is no body positivity agenda. No neurodivergent themes. No historical revision. The YouPorn server room sequence gestures toward corporate trespass, but it is played for farce. Any anti-capitalist reading dies under a falling server rack.
Lecture energy is near zero. This is not a sermon. It is a strained romp with a C+ CinemaScore and a Rotten Tomatoes consensus that mentions impotence. The film's progressive content is incidental, faint, and mostly theoretical. It belongs to a pre-streaming studio comedy mode: white, heterosexual, marriage-minded, mildly dirty, and eager to please. We score it accordingly. A sommelier might call it a thin vintage with no terroir. There is no aftertaste, no message, and no reason to revisit the cellar.
Analysis generated by our Consciousness Algorithm
Synopsis
When Jay and Annie first got together, their romantic connection was intense – but ten years and two kids later, the flame of their love needs a spark. To kick things up a notch, they decide – why not? – to make a video of themselves trying out every position in The Joy of Sex in one marathon three-hour session. It seems like a great idea – until they discover that their most private video is no longer private. With their reputations on the line, they know they’re just one click away from being laid bare to the world... but as their race to reclaim their video leads to a night they'll never forget, they'll find that their video will expose even more than they bargained for.
Questions about Sex Tape
Is Sex Tape woke?
No — Sex Tape is not woke, scoring 2 out of 100 on our wokeness meter. That earns it a verdict of Ultra Based.
Does Sex Tape have any woke elements?
Very few. None of the 10 markers reaches 30, the level where a marker counts as present; the highest is Feminist Agenda at 5.
How does Sex Tape compare to other 2014 movies?
It ranks #266 of the 303 films from 2014 we've scored; their average is 13. The wokest is Selma (68).
How is the Woke Score calculated?
An AI-assisted process researches the film and its reception, scores it 0–100 on ten markers, then combines those into one 0–100 Woke Score. It measures a specific set of 2020s cultural themes, not film quality.