Editing Serving Sara (section)

==Reception==
===Critical response===
''Serving Sara'' was panned by critics. {{Metacritic film prose|18|26}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/serving-sara |title=Serving Sara Reviews|website=[[Metacritic]]|publisher=[[CBS Interactive]]|access-date=August 29, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210111220134/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/serving-sara|archive-date=January 11, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> {{RT prose|{{RT data|score}}|{{RT data|average}}|{{RT data|count}}|A romantic comedy that's neither funny nor particularly romantic, ''Serving Sara'' is a forgettable time waster.}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/serving_sara|title=Serving Sara (2002)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|publisher=[[Fandango Media]]|access-date=June 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210601161536/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/serving_sara|archive-date=June 1, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> It was ranked number 82 in a ''Rotten Tomatoes'' editorial on the 100 worst movies of all time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/worst-movies-of-all-time/|title=Bad Movies: The 100 Worst Movies of All Time|website=Rotten Tomatoes|publisher=Fandango Media|access-date=February 24, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221044238/https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/worst-movies-of-all-time/|archive-date=February 21, 2024|url-status=live}}</ref>

Cynthia Fuchs from ''[[PopMatters]]'' found the progression of the plot "increasingly incoherent, a string of rehashed sight gags based in insipid vulgarity."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.popmatters.com/serving-sara-2496252223.html|title=Serving Sara (2002)|last=Fuchs|first=Cynthia|magazine=[[PopMatters]]|date=August 21, 2002|access-date=April 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122013218/https://www.popmatters.com/serving-sara-2496252223.html|archive-date=January 22, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''{{'}}s [[Lisa Schwarzbaum]] described the film's humor as being "a cattle ranch full of joke droppings and mooing shtick not worth stepping in."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2002/08/28/serving-sara-2/|title=Serving Sara|last=Schwarzbaum|first=Lisa|author-link=Lisa Schwarzbaum|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=August 28, 2002|access-date=April 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127225552/https://ew.com/article/2002/08/28/serving-sara-2/|archive-date=November 27, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> Scott Tobias of ''[[The A.V. Club]]'' said about the film, "[A] third-rate conflation of ''[[Midnight Run]]'' and ''[[It Happened One Night]]'', ''Serving Sara'' relies heavily on Perry's perpetually exasperated shtick, which fits more comfortably among the democratic ensemble of TV's ''[[Friends]]''."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.avclub.com/serving-sara-1798197810|title=Serving Sara|last=Tobias|first=Scott|newspaper=[[The A.V. Club]]|publisher=[[The Onion]]|date=August 30, 2002|access-date=April 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201004115110/https://film.avclub.com/serving-sara-1798197810|archive-date=October 4, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Manohla Dargis]] of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' called it, "One of the more cynical and insulting Hollywood offerings in recent memory," saying that, "Unfunny and lacking any sense of commitment to or affection for its characters, the Reginald Hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor, ethnic slurs."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-aug-23-et-sara23-story.html|title='Serving Sara' Does No Service to Anyone, Viewers Least of All|last=Dargis|first=Manohla|author-link=Manohla Dargis|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=August 23, 2002|access-date=June 1, 2021|url-access=limited|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201004115110/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-aug-23-et-sara23-story.html|archive-date=October 4, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> In a review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[Stephen Holden]] criticized the film for utilizing a similar cattle gag scene from the [[Farrelly brothers]] comedy ''[[Say It Isn't So (film)|Say It Isn't So]]'' to grab laughs from the audience, saying that "Some jokes, apparently, are just so uproarious they have to be recycled." He also gave note of the performances of Perry and Hurley, finding the latter coming out unscathed but feeling the former having performed poorly because "his blocky, charmless screen presence and attitude of blustery impatience make the movie sometimes hard to watch."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/23/movies/film-review-rich-man-wants-a-divorce-his-wife-has-her-own-plans.html|title=Rich Man Wants a Divorce; His Wife Has Her Own Plans|last=Holden|first=Stephen|author-link=Stephen Holden|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 23, 2002|access-date=April 1, 2018|url-access=limited|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201004115106/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/23/movies/film-review-rich-man-wants-a-divorce-his-wife-has-her-own-plans.html|archive-date=October 4, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Box office===
The film opened at #6 at the U.S. box office and earned $5.7 million in its opening weekend. The film had a budget of $29 million and the film's total gross in the United States was $16.9 million.<ref name="numbers" /> The film grossed a further $3,215,965 at the international box office.<ref name="mojo">{{mojo title|id=servingsara|title=Serving Sara}}. {{Retrieved|access-date=August 29, 2007}}</ref>