Sometimes it feels as if it might have been made in the '70s or '80s, and starred Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn.
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08/23/02
Serving Sara (2002)
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Reviews Counted:105
Fresh:5
Rotten:100
Average Rating:3/10
Consensus: Neither funny nor very romantic, Serving Sara is a forgettable time waster.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Fetching Sara Moore (Elizabeth Hurley) thinks that she is a happily married woman until process server Joe Tyler (Matthew Perry) shows up at her Manhattan apartment to serve her with divorce... [More]
Starring: Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley, Vincent Pastore, Bruce Campbell
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Reviews for Serving Sara
The jokes are telegraphed so far in advance they must have been lost in the mail.
08/23/02
Perry's good and his is an interesting character, but "Serving Sara" hasn't much more to serve than silly fluff. Nor is it a romantic comedy.
08/22/02
... Hudlin is stuck trying to light a fire with soggy leaves.
08/23/02
Filmmakers have to dig deep to sink this low. Fortunately for all involved, this movie is likely to disappear as quickly as an ice cube thrown into a pot of boiling water.
08/23/02
...plot holes so large and obvious a marching band might as well be stomping through them in clown clothes, playing a college football fight song on untuned instruments.
08/21/02
It's a glorified sitcom, and a long, unfunny one at that.
08/29/02
While Serving Sara does have a long way to go before it reaches the level of crudity in the latest Austin Powers extravaganza, there's nothing here to match that movie's intermittent moments of inspiration.
08/23/02
How inept is Serving Sara? It makes even Elizabeth Hurley seem graceless and ugly.
08/23/02
The film's original idea never gets fully exploited and is instead riddled with standard jokes and situations.
08/24/02
The picture, scored by a perversely cheerful Marcus Miller accordion/harmonica/banjo abomination, is a monument to bad in all its florid variety.
08/21/02
“One look at a girl in tight pants and big tits and you turn stupid?” Um…..isn’t that the basis for the entire plot?
08/22/02
Helmer Hudlin tries to make a hip comedy, but his dependence on slapstick defeats the possibility of creating a more darkly edged tome.
08/21/02
[A] poorly executed comedy.
08/25/02
If you're looking for comedy to be served up, better look elsewhere.
08/25/02
Unfunny and lacking any sense of commitment to or affection for its characters, the Reginald Hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor, ethnic slurs.
08/22/02
Top CriticIts sole purpose appears to be to give Perry something to occupy his time during the yearly hiatus from Friends. Perhaps he should have taken a vacation instead.
09/01/02
Serving Sara doesn't serve up a whole lot of laughs.
08/23/02
Any effort anyone puts forth is obviously for naught when the movie's supposedly showstopping set piece has Perry stick his arm up a bull's anus to tickle his prostate.
01/07/05
Stars Matthew Perry and Elizabeth Hurley illicit more than a chuckle, and more jokes land than crash, but ultimately Serving Sara doesn't distinguish itself from the herd.
08/22/02
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