With a lite touch, a slapdash pace, and a silly sensibility, Reginald Hudlin (House Party) introduces us to the human side of process servers. Matthew Perry (Chandler on Friends) is Joe, a litigator’s henchman who, with a touch of guile, serves up the kill — legal papers. It’s all one big process-serving sport until Joe must serve Sara (Elizabeth Hurley) divorce papers from her two-timing Texas cattleman husband. Sara figures out that hubby’s cheating isn’t confined to adultery — he’s trying to do her out of half of the posh cow pie. So she bribes Joe with a mix of money and cleavage and the two team up to try to serve him first, thereby ensuring she gets half.

High jinks ensue: they’re chased by cattlemen thugs; they career through airport baggage belts; they masturbate an impotent bull — and, yes, they eventually share an unlikely kiss. The humor has delightfully stupid elements of The Nutty Professor: quippy cultural jabs at the French are juxtaposed with a slobbery schlub lawyer’s antics while his Italian hit-man-esque process server oafishly ogles bikini-clad women in Miami. But the film drags on through endless chase scenes that, mercifully, culminate in a Monster Truck Rally. Quick-paced though it may be, Sara just doesn’t serve it up fast enough. (98 minutes)