Serving Sara

Starring: Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley, Cedric the Entertainer, Jerry Stiller, Vincent Pastore
Directed by: Reginald Hudlin
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Comedy
2002

Times Seen:
Tim: 1

Summary: A New York process server (Matthew Perry) tries to serve Sara (Elizabeth Hurley), a millionaire's wife, divorce papers. If he succeeds, she would get nothing. She turns the tables on her soon-to-be ex-husband, offering her server a huge chunk of the money she'd get if he would serve her husbnd the divorce papers first (it all makes sense if you watch). The problem is, another process server has been dispatched to serve Sara. Now, its a serving marathon to see who serves first and who gets the money.

Review:

Tim: I'll start out this review on a positive note. Matthew Perry and Vincent Pastore have some wonderful dialogue together. It is meanspirited, quick, intelligent, and very, very funny. Unfortunately, those scenes only add up to about 8 or 9 minutes of the movie.

Matthew Perry does a good job throughout the movie, oftentimes proving himself to be very funny. Hurley prances around, trying (and mostly succeeding) to appear sexy and cute. While these are great, they aren't key ingredients to a good comedy. Cedric the Entertainer manages a few laughs here and there as well.

The story behind Serving Sara is interesting enough. However, there are elements of action and suspense built in that simply do not work and are not worth seeing. There are a few worthwhile moments like Perry's occasional perfect delivery of a joke, but mostly this comedy is slow, unfunny, and really not worth your... or my time.

Rating 1-10
Tim's Rating- 5.5



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