Serving Sara is a lazy, trite comedy that's made by people who don't care either.
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... 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 papers. Sara gives Joe a run for his money, fleeing to the Estee Lauder Salon (a nice touch for those who know Hurley as the company's representative) and dodging him all around New York City. Realizing that she stands to lose everything in the divorce to her Texan cattle-rancher husband (Bruce Campbell) if she is served first, Sara hires Joe to turn the tables and serve her husband first. As the two leave New York for Texas in pursuit of Gordon, they engage in luggage carousel hijinx, have a run-in with a bull, and find themselves at a Monster Truck rally, among other places. Of course, true love is always just around the corner as Sara and Joe spend more time together in pursuit of saving her millions. Vincent Pastore plays Joe's foil, Tony, who has been sabotaging Joe's work for months in order to impress the boss (Cedric "The Entertainer" Kyles) and become the company's star process server. SERVING SARA is directed by Reginald Hudlin (HOUSE PARTY, THE LADIES MAN). [More]
Starring: Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley, Vincent Pastore, Bruce Campbell
Starring: Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley, Vincent Pastore, Bruce Campbell, Cedric the Entertainer, Jerry Stiller, Amy Adams
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Screenwriter: David Ronn, Jay Scherick
Producer: Dan Halsted
Composer: Marcus Miller
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Reviews for Serving Sara
Sometimes it feels as if it might have been made in the '70s or '80s, and starred Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn.
Serving Sara is downright terrible: impossible to enjoy, impossible to believe.
One good thing: Serving Sara is a summer movie. And summer is almost over. The movie will quickly fade and be forgotten.
It actually could have worked, but sadly, it doesn't. Give it a pass.
What few laughs there are come through a nearly Herculean effort by Perry, who seems to be the only one who's really trying.
How inept is Serving Sara? It makes even Elizabeth Hurley seem graceless and ugly.
Anyone associated with this god-awful movie should be suspended from Hollywood for the rest of the year.
I don't know what they're Serving Sara, but I'm sending it back to the kitchen.
When more time is spent conceiving a film’s opening credits than its script, you know you’ve got trouble
Aiming only to be amiably stupid, the movie still manages to fall short of the target.
Even dumber than Perry's Three to Tango, this latest sitcommy exercise is sporadically funny in spite of itself.
It can only be recommended as a very mild rental...ya know, one of those that you pick up because you've already seen everything else.
The only thing Sara serves is lame, stereotypical humor coupled with predictable shenanigans.
There's something for most everyone to hate in Serving Sara, a screwball comedy in which jokes cross the plate like sinkers.
Those looking for a clever, imaginative or well-made comedy will probably wish someone had served these filmmakers with cease and desist letters before they finished this failed effort.
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