Serving Sara (2002)
5 %
Reviews Counted: 102 Fresh: 5 Rotten:97 Average Rating: 3/10
Consensus:
Neither funny nor very romantic, Serving Sara is a forgettable time waster.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
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 papers. Sara gives Joe a run for his money, fleeing to the Estee Lauder Salon (a nice touch for those who... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley, Vincent Pastore, Bruce Campbell, Cedric the Entertainer
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Screenwriter: David Ronn, Jay Scherick
Producer: Dan Halsted
Composer: Marcus Miller
Screenwriter: David Ronn, Jay Scherick
Producer: Dan Halsted
Composer: Marcus Miller
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Top Critic
Romantic comedy ought to have some romance and laughs, but this extraordinarily flat effort has neither.
01/03/07
Top Critic
Filled with artificial sweetener, and ultimately not satisfying enough.
09/30/05
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.
01/07/05
If he so chooses, David Schwimmer could make a movie co-starring Gallagher and Yakov Smirnoff. It would have to be better.
06/27/03
One clever concept, several witty comedians, and many commonplace scenarios means Serving Sara will be served more at Blockbuster than at the multiplexes.
05/20/03
...Designed to appeal to moviegoers whose goal is to sit in an air-conditioned theater for 1½ hours with their brains on 'pause.'
02/08/03
Here's a stretch: Elizabeth Hurley is a sexy English girl and Matthew Perry is Chandler in this senseless, surprisingly unfunny comedy.
01/13/03
There's still something vaguely enjoyable about the film, as there has been with most of Matthew Perry's movies.
10/02/02
[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).
09/24/02
Lame, limp, unappealing, incompetent, clueless -- these are the kindest words I can come up with to describe this film.
09/18/02
"Serving Sara" is a fish fart of a movie, an indistinguishable little bubble of toxic waste that ascends from an ocean of indifference until it reaches the surface and dissipates into nothingness.
09/15/02
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.
09/14/02
It's not pretty watching this likable cast floundering in search of something funny to do.
09/03/02
'...One drawn-out, painful chase, with a few slugs, love smacks and prostate jokes.'
09/03/02
Serving Sara is so close to "fun little diversion" that it makes the parts that don?t work hurt more than they really should.
09/02/02
All people involved in this movie should be served with papers demanding that they never collaborate on anything ever again.
09/01/02
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