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Serving Sara

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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

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Serving Sara is a lazy, trite comedy that's made by people who don't care either.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
08/23/02
Kim Morgan
Kim Morgan
Oregonian

Sometimes it feels as if it might have been made in the '70s or '80s, and starred Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
08/23/02
John Anderson
John Anderson
Newsday

Serving Sara is downright terrible: impossible to enjoy, impossible to believe.

Full Review Source: Miami Herald | comment Comment
08/23/02
Connie Ogle
Connie Ogle
Miami Herald

One good thing: Serving Sara is a summer movie. And summer is almost over. The movie will quickly fade and be forgotten.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
08/23/02
Bruce Kirkland
Bruce Kirkland
Jam! Movies

It actually could have worked, but sadly, it doesn't. Give it a pass.

Full Review Source: Greenwich Village Gazette | comment Comment
08/23/02
Eric Lurio
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette

What few laughs there are come through a nearly Herculean effort by Perry, who seems to be the only one who's really trying.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
08/23/02
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

It's probably the worst Matthew Perry movie ever.

Full Review Source: Charlotte Observer | comment Comment
08/23/02
Lawrence Toppman
Lawrence Toppman
Charlotte Observer

How inept is Serving Sara? It makes even Elizabeth Hurley seem graceless and ugly.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
08/23/02
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe

Anyone associated with this god-awful movie should be suspended from Hollywood for the rest of the year.

Full Review Source: Katrillion.com | comment Comment
08/23/02
John Oliver
John Oliver
Katrillion.com

... Hudlin is stuck trying to light a fire with soggy leaves.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
08/23/02
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

I don't know what they're Serving Sara, but I'm sending it back to the kitchen.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
08/23/02
Bill Muller
Bill Muller
Arizona Republic

A string of rehashed sight gags based in insipid vulgarity.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
08/23/02
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters

When more time is spent conceiving a film’s opening credits than its script, you know you’ve got trouble

Full Review Source: Planet Sick-Boy | comment Comment
08/23/02
Jon Popick
Jon Popick
Planet Sick-Boy

Aiming only to be amiably stupid, the movie still manages to fall short of the target.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
08/23/02
Liam Lacey
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail

Even dumber than Perry's Three to Tango, this latest sitcommy exercise is sporadically funny in spite of itself.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
08/23/02
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post

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.

Full Review Source: Supercala.com | comment Comment
08/23/02
John Venable
John Venable
Supercala.com

The only thing Sara serves is lame, stereotypical humor coupled with predictable shenanigans.

Full Review Source: Eclipse Magazine | comment Comment
08/23/02
Sean O'Connell
Sean O'Connell
Eclipse Magazine

Serving Sara doesn't serve up a whole lot of laughs.

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
08/23/02
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

There's something for most everyone to hate in Serving Sara, a screwball comedy in which jokes cross the plate like sinkers.

Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
08/23/02
Phil Villarreal
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

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.

Full Review Source: Screen It! | comment Comment
08/23/02
Jim Judy
Jim Judy
Screen It!
 
 
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