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Pretty
stupid, predictable, but occasionally funny. That is the quick take on Serving
Sara, Mathew Perry's new film espousing the glories of the process server. And
oh what glories they are. The
film begins in the Big Apple with Joe Tyler (Perry from The
Whole Nine Yards) serving papers to some mobster after a lengthy attempt.
Soon we discover that Joe is Ray Harris' (Cedric the Entertainer, Ice Age) top
process server, or at least he was till a few months ago. However, Ray's number
two guy Tony (Vincent Pastore, Deuces Wild)
is a dumbass, which leaves Ray in a bind since he has an important client
needing some divorce papers served to an unsuspecting and soon to be ex-wife. In
the end, Ray goes with Joe for the big case, but Tony has been busy the last few
months messing up Joe's jobs, and he continues to do so with this big case. Tony
succeeds in messing Joe up enough that Ray hands the file over to Tony. But Joe
doesn't give up and is finally able to serve his mark, Sara (Elizabeth Hurley, Bedazzled).
So off Joe goes to file his court papers when he meets Sara again, and this time
she has a proposition for him. She'll file for divorce in NY (versus Texas where
her husband is filing) and pay Joe $1 million to throw away the papers he is
going to file and instead go to Texas to serve her rich husband Gordon (Bruce
Campbell, Spider-Man) instead. This is apparently a
big ethical no-no for process servers (plus I'm guessing it is illegal), but
money talks and Joe, an ex-lawyer, listens so that he can afford to run off to
Napa and start his own winery. So the rest of the film is Sara and Joe running
around Texas trying to find and serve Gordon, while Tony is running around all
over the country trying to find and serve Sara. Plus, add some sexual tension
between Joe and Sara because you know they have to sleep with each other at some
point. Some of it is funny, some of it is stupid, all of it was predictable. Also
in this Reginald Hudlin directed film are Amy Adams, the funny Jerry Stiller,
Marshall Bell, and a whole lot more. As
you may be able to gather from what I have said so far, I was not real impressed
with Serving Sara. There are worst films out there, just not many of them. So I
guess I’ll serve up (ha, ha, lame pun) three couches for the rating.
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