Serving Sara (2002)
Average Rating: 3/10
Reviews Counted: 108
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 103
Neither funny nor very romantic, Serving Sara is a forgettable time waster.
Average Rating: 3/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 25
Neither funny nor very romantic, Serving Sara is a forgettable time waster.
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Average Rating: 2.4/5
User Ratings: 26,918
Movie Info
A process server makes an unusual alliance with a beautiful but devious woman in this comedy. Joe Tyler (Matthew Perry) is a former attorney whose career went bust when he picked up some clients who turned out to be associated with the Mafia. These days, Joe makes his living as a process server, who presents people with legal papers -- papers they would usually prefer not to get. One of Joe's fellow servers, Tony (Vincent Pastore), is trying to weasel him out of his job, and has starting tipping
Cast
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Matthew Perry
Joe Tyler -
Elizabeth Hurley
Sara Moore -
Bruce Campbell
Gordon Moore -
Amy Adams
Kate -
Vincent Pastore
Tony -
Cedric the Entertain...
Ray Harris -
Terry Crews
Vernon -
Jerry Stiller
Milton the Cop -
Joe Viterelli
Fat Charlie
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All Critics (108) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (103) | DVD (20)
Romantic comedy ought to have some romance and laughs, but this extraordinarily flat effort has neither.
Top CriticCrass and joyless.
The plot fluctuations unfold as predictably as any other cross-country buddy-buddy flick you care to mention.
The movie itself is a cattle ranch full of joke droppings and mooing shtick not worth stepping in.
A broadly played, lowbrow comedy in which the cast delivers mildly amusing performances and no farm animals were injured by any of the gags.
With Vicodin-sharp timing, Perry wavers from glib to glazed, seeming to openly rue his miscasting as palookaville process server Joe Tyler.
A third-rate conflation of Midnight Run and It Happened One Night, Serving Sara relies heavily on Perry's perpetually exasperated shtick, which fits more comfortably among the democratic ensemble of TV's Friends.
This movie doesn't play; it just lies there, waiting to be kicked around by anyone unfortunate enough to have shelled out good money to see it.
Perry and Hurley don't have much chemistry, and the story is so dumb you might want to sue it for stupidity.
This movie has many of the usual elements a romantic comedy has.
Excruciating.
Filled with artificial sweetener, and ultimately not satisfying enough.
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.
Hurley in particular is astoundingly awful.
If he so chooses, David Schwimmer could make a movie co-starring Gallagher and Yakov Smirnoff. It would have to be better.
One clever concept, several witty comedians, and many commonplace scenarios means Serving Sara will be served more at Blockbuster than at the multiplexes.
...Designed to appeal to moviegoers whose goal is to sit in an air-conditioned theater for 1 1/2 hours with their brains on 'pause.'
Here's a stretch: Elizabeth Hurley is a sexy English girl and Matthew Perry is Chandler in this senseless, surprisingly unfunny comedy.
There's still something vaguely enjoyable about the film, as there has been with most of Matthew Perry's movies.
[Cedric the Entertainer] gives what just might be the worst performance of the year (and no, I'm not forgetting A Walk to Remember's Mandy Moore).
A truly lightweight forgettable piece of fluff which will barely make a blip either in the cinemas or on video.
Lame, limp, unappealing, incompetent, clueless -- these are the kindest words I can come up with to describe this film.
Neither Perry nor Hurley displays a gift for romantic nonsense, and it's difficult to detect any real or faked sexual chemistry between the two stars.
It's not pretty watching this likable cast floundering in search of something funny to do.
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Several plot holes: how is it that Sara gets on the exact same bus AFTER Joe when they are in the same place to begin with? How does Tony catch up to Joe and Sara so fast? If Tony forgets to set his watch back for CST, how does he make it on the plane in time?