Review of Tammy (2014) by Junelkean — 05 Jul 2017

Tammy: a movie title where you cannot resist smiling while reading. Well, it turns out to be another Melissa McCarthy movie being herself. Ultimately, Tammy is all about a sloppy road-trip dramedy where McCarthy and Susan Sarandon meets a bunch of people, and along their way, they do stupid things: from fake-armed robbery, to getting drunk then burning a jet ski and meeting Anne Wilkes of Misery and Ray Stantz of Ghostbusters.

But writers and couple, Ben Falcone and McCarthy never understands the significance of characterizations in scriptwriting for crafting the personality and eventual goals of our titular character. That being said, their first collaboration is still not a nice try given the involved star-studded talents. It takes amazing talents such as Kathy Bates, Dan Aykroyd, Allison Janney and Sandra Oh as underused and useless supporting actors to the story.

There are few chuckle-able and giggable moments in the movie, but it never saves Tammy in its poorly written script and terrible direction.

VERDICT: McCarthy and Falcone's collaboration is a wasted comedy movie, missing in comedy.