Serving Sara
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: August 23, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
18
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
4
Negative:
22
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Washington PostStephen Hunter
Folks, I think I'm speaking for all of us when I say this is pretty darn fine American entertainment Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneRobert K. Elder
When Serving Sara reaches beyond its grasp and dreams big, Perry and Hurley float the movie on aplomb and wit. When the film gears down for slower-paced set pieces and disposable villains, its stars find themselves knee-deep in a giant comedy cow pie. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Perry isn't the only thing wrong with Serving Sara, but he's the thing that takes a pleasantly mediocre movie and turns it into an unpleasantly mediocre one. Read full review
42
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
For all the hot air expended, this film ends up all smoke and no heat. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Serving Sara, which often feels more like serving time, is one of those tortured Hollywood romantic comedies that starts with a passable premise and turns into an inventory of flat gags and weak lines set against a travelogue backdrop. Read full review
38
New York PostLou Lumenick
Even dumber than Perry's "Three to Tango," this latest sitcommy exercise is sporadically funny in spite of itself -- and not quite as dreadful as you would suspect. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Romantic screwball comedies are supposed to be at least a little romantic, but there's no chemistry between Perry and Hurley. Read full review
33
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
The few jaunty, ''Friends''-inflected lines Perry does get off are lost among the cow pies. Read full review
30
VarietyRobert Koehler
Little more than a mall movie designed to kill time. Read full review
25
Portland OregonianKim Morgan
A lazy, trite comedy that's made by people who don't care either.
25
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Perry and Hurley don't have much chemistry, and the story is so dumb you might want to sue it for stupidity. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeTy Burr
How inept is Serving Sara? It makes even Elizabeth Hurley seem graceless and ugly. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
Serving Sara is D.O.A., with nary a laugh to be found. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
Downright terrible: impossible to enjoy, impossible to believe. Read full review
25
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Defined by three characteristics. It is as stupid as a decapitated worm. It is as irritating as a mosquito buzzing around one's head. And it is as funny as "Schindler's List." Read full review
25
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
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.
25
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Let me say, in my desire always to be positive, that Serving Sara is the funniest film I know where a man sticks his arm up a bull's rectum to massage its prostate. Read full review
20
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Long before Serving Sara drags its butt to the finish line, you wish you were watching a different race. Read full review
20
The New York TimesStephen Holden
With the dog days of August upon us, think of this dog of a movie as the cinematic equivalent of high humidity. Read full review
20
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Surprisingly, Hurley comes off better than either of her demonstrably more versatile co-stars; she's not much of an actress, but she has an engagingly saucy swagger and her open-mouthed expression of outraged disbelief is priceless. Read full review
10
New Times (L.A.)Jean Oppenheimer
Numbingly feeble -- The dialogue is witless, the situations are lame, the humor juvenile and the chemistry between the stars nonexistent.
10
L.A. WeeklyJohn Patterson
All Serving Sara can offer is Perry with his arm shoulder-deep up a longhorn steer's backside, a wasted supporting cast that includes Vincent Pastore and Cedric the Entertainer, and a huge, comedian-shaped hole where Hurley's performance should be. Read full review
10
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Misbegotten late-summer special. Read full review
10
Los Angeles TimesManohla Dargis
Crushingly unfunny. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleSteve Davis
It's the kind of bad movie that gives bad movies a bad name. Read full review
0
Washington PostDesson Thomson
As a child, I thought pure hell meant eternal agony in the flames of Satan. Now I know it's looking down at your watch and realizing Serving Sara isn't even halfway through. Read full review
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