All people involved in this movie should be served with papers demanding that they never collaborate on anything ever again.
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.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for crude humor, sexual content and language
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Aug 23, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $16,881,019
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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Reviews for Serving Sara
Its 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.
Quick-paced though it may be, Sara just doesn’t serve it up fast enough.
The dialogue is witless, the situations are lame, the humor juvenile and the chemistry between the stars nonexistent.
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.
Scarcely worth a mention apart from reporting on the number of tumbleweeds blowing through the empty theatres graced with its company.
A broadly played, lowbrow comedy in which the cast delivers mildly amusing performances and no farm animals were injured by any of the gags.
Perry’s biting and bitter sarcasm helps fill the gaping holes left in the script by the studio weasels that digested it.
With Vicodin-sharp timing, Perry wavers from glib to glazed, seeming to openly rue his miscasting as palookaville process server Joe Tyler.
There are many definitions of 'time waster' but this movie must surely be one of them.
As a romantic couple, Perry and Hurley have all the chemistry of roadkill and a bran muffin.
This mind-numbing comic void never generates enough electricity to brown an English muffin.
A movie without a redeeming feature: a black hole where laughter goes to die.
Serving Sara should be subpoenaed for promoting itself as a film with laughs in it.
...excruciatingly numb and mindless romantic comedy. There's nothing here that the main leads or supporting players can do to serve Sara her just desserts.
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