After Tammy had a bad day combo of getting fired and caught her husband cheating, she goes to take a runaway trip. But since she lacks money and a car, she urges to borrow them from her grandma Pearl, who then insisted that she joins Tammy. The pair gets crazy on their trip, purchasing a broken jet ski in process, while from time to time Pearl reminisce about her past stories and tell them to Tammy. The catch of the trip for Tammy is that Pearl is secretly a heavy alcoholic, and lustful, despite her obvious danger from diabetes. One night at a bar the pair meet father and son Earl and Bobby. Pearl and Earl hooks right up, leaving Tammy alone outside for the night. The next morning Tammy gets infuriated and leaves Pearl while she gets drunk. When Tammy returns to her, they get arrested due to disturbing public peace. Pearl bails Tammy out.

That night, feeling guilty, Tammy resorts to robbing a branch of Topper Jack, a fast food brand where she was employed. It turns out that Pearl had contacted Earl to bail her out. So the next day Pearl and Tammy returns the robbed money. Pearl then contacts her friends Lenore and Susanne. Lenore then ditches the car Tammy and pearl uses to cover tracks of the robbery, but they bring the jet ski. Eventually they give a "Viking funeral" to the jet ski at a night party at Lenore's. The next day the police come due to the neighbors complaining about a burning jet ski. That's when they made it about Tammy. Afetr some time Tammy gets out of jail. When she gets home, her mother tells her that they put Pearl in a retirement home. Angered, Tammy rushes to the home trying to free Pearl. To Tammy's surprise Pearl is happy where she is. But they still go to Niagara Falls, the original destination of their trip.

The story is actually based on a quite uncommon premise of having a runaway trip after going through a low point in life. The movie doesn't really develop the entire story suitably. It feels like there are some things missing here and there. The pace is not well set, where, starting from the deer crash, we have the first twenty to thirty minutes in a rather fast pace. Yet it slows down, starting about the conversation in front of the eagle, and stays that way for a long duration. And after that, the pace doesn't really recover. It makes the mood of the movie feels rather awkward.

The jokes feels rather off because there are many great laughs from the dialog, but there is little to none of rather physical or practical joke. Well, compared to the last time I saw Melissa McCarthy in The Heat (2013), Tammy (2014) has way less of those crazy practical jokes. I bring this up because I do think there are many spots which are capable to be filled with some practical laughs here and there.

The acting is a so-so job in overall. McCarthy still did her loud, raunchy and wild character as she almost always do. Susan Sarandon provides some extra laughs, especially on the scenes of Pearl and Earl. Kathy Bates gives an adequate supporting cast acting as well as Gary Cole and Mark Duplass.

My final say that Tammy is only worth a 5 out of 10 score. Although it is a good laugh most of the time, and it can be a good entertainment, but it definitely can't be included in the family movie category due to the harsh language. Also the unstable pave building makes this movie loses it.

Tammy catches her husband with another woman, and goes on a road trip with her grandmother.

I'll be honest, I was expecting to hate this. Despite my liking Melissa McCarthy in Bridesmais, I have cordially hated her in everything I have seen her in since. She seems to have not so much cornered as created a market for obnoxious fat women comedies. And presumably there is such a market or they wouldn't keep getting made. But, personally, as some one who finds obnoxious characters the very antithesis of humour, I find such films repellent rather than funny. And the trailer for Tammy gave every impression of this film being the same again.

To my surprise, it isn't. Part of the reason for this is that the character is very badly written, changing from being an obnoxious idiot in the early stages to a less repellent, less stupid, maudlin self-pitier for the majority of the film's length, without any great explanation or justification for doing so. And part of the reason is that the film never aims at being an obnoxious character comedy, more a sentimental cross-generation road trip comedy. Sadly, while this is considerably less offensive, it isn't any less funny.

The fault lies in the conception - misconceived from the start - and the writing, which is never able to rescue the film from where it put itself from the start. The performances are good, as one might expect from the A list women here (Kathy Bates is particularly good), but Tammy isn't ever a character you feel inclined to warm to. Likewise this film.

Melissa McCarthy breaks down her stardom like this. Either you enjoy her or you can't stand her. There is likely no in between and part of that reason is because she really is a one trick pony. Whether she's playing Molly on her sitcom or her various characters in her hit films, they are all almost identical with very small differences. So this is another McCarthy vehicle where she plays a rough around the edges, smart talking, sarcastic and "butchy" misunderstood person. She also deserves kudos because she always makes you feel incredible empathy for her characters. Tammy is loud and obnoxious and a total mess and her life is falling apart and then by the end of the film you root for her and adore her and the completely zany cast of supporting characters completely win you over. There is nothing particularly amazing or different about Tammy other than it is perhaps a lot darker than most of her other comedies. This is more of the style of Jason Bateman or Bill Murray or something like that. Still there are definitive laugh out loud moments and plenty of the physical comedy that I am a sucker for and Melissa McCarthy does well even though I don't like that her weight is always a punch line...its what she knows and does best.

I think I've already spoken to her performance in the film. It is very good and the one thing with Tammy is that she gets some depth and emotion in there at various points and it works. She definitely has a unique knack and chemistry on screen. The supporting cast is terrific including very brief cameos from Dan Akroyd, Allison Janey, Kathy Bates and Sandra Oh. The meat and potatoes of the film though is McCarthy and Susan Sarandon who gives a subtle but really terrific performance as Grandma. She's an alcoholic, desperately trying to grab onto life and their scenes together are really great. Sarandon is terrific and its been awhile since I've seen her in anything so I was glad to see her in this. Also really great comedic cameos from Toni Collette (also brief but effective), Ben Falcone (he's always a great cameo in McCarthy films--her real life husband), Nat Faxon and a sort of bizarrely small performance by Mark Duplass who is actually good in the role as McCarthy's eventual love interest but its an incredible small part for a romantic "lead." But romance isn't the focus of the story I suppose.

I know I said that Tammy doesn't really bring anything new to the table and I stand by that but at the same time it is far cry from Identity Thief or Bridesmaids. Its a lot darker content that a silly comedy. There is some deep introspective on life and mistakes and redemption. But if you don't look too deeply its good for a laugh. The film is actually directed by McCarthy's husband whom I mentioned, Ben Falcone. He absolutely has some talent behind the lens. Especially considering this is his directorial debut. This, much like your opinion of McCarthy, boils down to either you'll really enjoy it or you'll hate it. I think most fans of a good comedy will appreciate a strong story and good characters. My biggest complaint was that I wanted to see far more development from supporting cast members but that's because there were a lot of significant comedians in the film that got very little screen time and we know how terrific they can be. I still very much enjoyed the film. 8/10