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.
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
It's probably unfair to say you'll feel just as violated if you waste $10 on this, but serving time with this bomb comes pretty darn close.
Scratch this one from your list and watch instead Singin' in the Rain or The Dukes of Hazzard or a Learning Channel special on cows, flatulent or otherwise. Whatever your interest, you'll be better served.
You know a movie is DOA when not even the sight of Liz Hurley in a 'Trailer Trash' glitter T-shirt, tartan miniskirt and lace-up python boots can revive it.
With the dog days of August upon us, think of this dog of a movie as the cinematic equivalent of high humidity.
Serving Sara is merely a serving of average, forgettable Hollywood fare.
Unfunny and lacking any sense of commitment to or affection for its characters, the Reginald Hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor, ethnic slurs.
The film's low point, a real Freddie Got Fingered moment, has Joe helping a bull perform sexually. Don't ask.
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.
“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?
As problematic as the two leads are, they are inconsequential to this poorly written story
From the viewer's perspective 'Suffering Sara' or 'Surviving Sara' might be more apt...a serving of 'Sara' that you'd do well to decline.
A supposed neo-screwball romp that ends up feeling like an episode of Friends set in Texas crossed with an Estee Lauder shoot.
Serving Sara is the kind of movie that should premiere on an airplane--it's lame but watchable, and you could read a magazine during it and still follow the plot.
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.
Skip this turd and pick your nose instead because you're sure to get more out of the latter experience.
Though Perry and Hurley make inspiring efforts to breathe life into the disjointed, haphazard script by Jay Scherick and David Ronn, neither the actors nor director Reginald Hudlin can make it more than fitfully entertaining.
The picture, scored by a perversely cheerful Marcus Miller accordion/harmonica/banjo abomination, is a monument to bad in all its florid variety.
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