SERVING SARA

Serving Sara offers some mindless laughs through a wild chase involving divorce papers, a million-dollar bribe, Texas escapades, and a budding romance. But the humor is often mean-spirited, the characters are shallow, and the story is not emotionally involving or challenging.

The larger problem is moral. Joe and Sara’s attraction grows from wounds, greed, revenge, and lust. The movie also treats lies, betrayal, and adulterous sex as part of its comic machinery, while using a great deal of foul language. Even its jokes about Texans take aim at subjects including capital punishment, gun ownership, Bible reading, and monster truck rallies.

The practical answer is simple: skip this one and choose something that can make you laugh without leaving a bad taste in your mouth.

Joe Tyler is a process server sent to Texas to deliver divorce papers to Sara Moore, whose wealthy, cheating husband wants to be rid of her. Sara persuades Joe to help her serve her husband first, offering him one million dollars for the favor.

Joe and Sara then begin a precarious journey to find the husband. Their travels take them through spas, hotels, mansions, a ranch, and a monster truck show, while their shared wounds and greed begin to spark a relationship.

Two stars means this movie has a few laughs but little lasting value. The premise creates opportunities for comic situations, and the chase moves through colorful settings, including health spas, luggage conveyors, sleazy hotels, Texas mansions, a ranch, and a monster truck show.

But the characters are not memorable, the story is not emotionally involving or challenging, and much of the humor is mean-spirited. The film delivers occasional amusement while remaining shallow and morally unpleasant.

The film presents a largely self-centered world in which people lie, steal, cheat, pursue money, and betray one another to reach their goals. Joe and Sara’s relationship is built on wounds, greed, revenge, and lust rather than commitment or self-giving love. The movie also suggests that affairs offer the deepest passion, while a hotel Bible becomes part of a deceptive attempt at sexual intimacy.

The film’s humor takes politically correct jabs at Texans by portraying their cowboy and playboy mentalities, electric chairs, love of monster truck shows, and love of guns. These jokes are presented as satire, but they contribute to the movie’s generally contemptuous tone.

The movie does recognize that wealth cannot guarantee a lasting relationship. But its worldview still treats winning through lies and betrayal as part of the game. Scripture offers a better foundation: “You cannot serve God and money” (Matthew 6:24).

Serving Sara has a lively premise and a few mindless laughs, but its foul language, crude humor, shallow characters, and selfish relational worldview outweigh those strengths. For your family or your own conscience, SKIP IT.