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TAMMY

Joyce and Don Fowler
Posted 7/9/14

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(Jumbled, uneven, crude attempt at comedy)

No, this isn’t Debbie Reynolds as Tammy. This is Melissa McCarthy playing the antithesis to the sweet, young lady who was in love in the …

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See it at the Movies

TAMMY

Posted

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(Jumbled, uneven, crude attempt at comedy)

No, this isn’t Debbie Reynolds as Tammy. This is Melissa McCarthy playing the antithesis to the sweet, young lady who was in love in the ’50s.

While McCarthy isn’t as crude and crass as in her previous films, she still has a filthy mouth and the ability to gross you out, even though the writers (McCarthy is one of them) try to gain some sympathy for her.

Poor Tammy has had a rough life. She comes from a dysfunctional family; her husband is cheating on her; and she is fired from her job at a fast food joint. One of our favorite actresses, Susan Sarandon, lowers her ranking by playing Tammy’s drunken, sex-craved grandmother, Pearl.

Pearl has money and a car and wants to see Niagara Falls, so the two losers leave Illinois and head for upstate New York. What we get is a road movie filled with gross incidents, all leading to Pearl and Tammy bonding and Tammy finding love.

We watch her rob a Topper Jack’s, drive drunkenly through a national forest, wreck a bar, get arrested, attend a lesbian party and be hit on by a handsome but dumb farmer (Gary Cole), while Pearl romps in the back seat of a car with his horny father.

McCarthy writes a “happily ever after” ending, with one funny out-take during the credits, but it can’t save this dog of a movie. Nor can appearances by Sarandon, Kathy Bates, Sandra Oh, Allison Janney and Toni Collette.

Rated R for lots of profanity and sexual references. 

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