 | Watch Tammy (2014) online Run time: 97 min Rating: 4.8 Genres: Comedy Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates |
| Storyline Tammy, who was recently fired from a Topper Jack's fast food restaurant, returns home only to find her husband enjoying a romantic meal with the neighbor. She quickly packs her necessities, and travels down three houses to her parent's home. Upon denied use of her mom's car to drive to Niagara Falls, she quickly resorts to an "ailing" grandmother, who also lives in the home...Only instead of traveling alone, Grandma Pearl wants in on the road trip. After realizing Grandma Pearl has the funds, they hit the road. Pearl soon proves to be quite the alcoholic despite her diabetes, and Tammy quickly turns into the "baby-sitter." From finding love in a bar to robbing a Topper Jack's in order to bail Pearl out of jail,the quirky adventure will have you finding yourself riding along for the misadventures of Tammy. Written by Mayor_G | |
| Plot Keywords: female protagonist, one word title, character name in title | |
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| Box Office Budget: $20,000,000 (estimated) Opening Weekend: $21,577,049 (USA) (4 July 2014) Gross: $83,368,160 (USA) (22 August 2014) | |
I really enjoyed this movie. I admit I wasn't constantly laughing at her jokes, like I have in the past, but I was still entertained and pulled into the story every step of the way.
ReplyDeleteIt's a story about discovery and growth, like any good road trip story. The bonus is that McCarthy and Sarandon were not scared to play the best and worst of their characters, and they do it well and with abandoned enthusiasm.
McCarthy has always been able to make me laugh, but in this movie I actually cried as much as I laughed. For instance, there is a scene where she cries over a loss, and she is full-out crying - just like I would be in that scenario - and it hit that emotional button in me.
I don't understand why there are so many negative reviews of this movie. It's like people had too high of expectations or, as I have seen with some reviewers, they just do not like McCarthy and would have hated the movie no matter what she did.
The movie was made to be a classic road trip movie with adventures, mishaps, and growth. It delivers on that promise and uses a great cast to do it.
I saw "Tammy", starring Melissa McCarthy-Mike & Molly_t.v., Charlies' Angels; Susan Sarandon-That's My Boy, Speed Racer; Allison Janney- Mom_t.v., The Help and Ben Falcone-The Heat, Bridesmaids.
ReplyDeleteThis is a comedy that is directed by Ben Falcone, Melissa's real life husband of ten years. This is his first time directing but he has been in a lot of movies and t.v. shows. Melissa plays a down on her luck woman. She hits a deer with her car on her way to work, gets fired when she gets to work-Ben plays her boss that lets her go-and then she goes home to find her husband having an intimate dinner with the next door neighbor. I mean she just can't catch a break. Allison plays Melissa's mother and Susan plays her grandmother. Melissa and Susan think that it is time for a change and decide to take a road trip to Niagara Falls- Susan has always wanted to see it, and now she has the money-and that's when the hilarity begins. They get into trouble, get out of trouble, meet new people and even learn some things about themselves. There are several cameos scattered throughout the film, as well as some good music. There is a scene during the end credits but nothing at the very end. It's rated "R" for language and sexual references-no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 36 minutes. I laughed enough that I would buy this one on DVD.
After hearing and reading so many negative reviews, I didn't expect much. But I highly enjoyed myself. I cracked up laughing many times and so did the others in the theater. I went to an early morning movie expecting to see few people because of the time and the bad reviews. The theater was packed! After the move was over people were quoting it and laughing. This is a funny road trip movie. Tammy as had a very bad day: hit a deer and damaged her car, got fired, and walks in on her husband cheating on her. So she decides to take off. Her grandmother invites herself to go along. Tammy's ignorance of some things and her grandmothers drinking problem, make for lots of laughs. I say people give this movie a break, this was not going for an Oscar. It was made to be a laid back, funny summer movie. Go in to this not expecting award winning material and you will enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteTammy features Melissa McCarthey as herself or so it seems. The idea that we must buy into this woman gorging herself with Cheetos and Doritos for the entire length of a feature film is utter torture. Tammy just limps into gear, act after act, it feels like the same joke over and over again. We get it, McCarthey is overweight and has a foul mouth, we knew it in Bridesmaids, we knew it in The Heat, and we knew it very well in Identity Theft. Why should we care to see it again in a film that is, quite honestly, one of the worst films I've seen all year? The answer is, we shouldn't. Tammy boasts a pretty good cast from Susan Surrandon to Kathy Bates and Toni Collette, it has all the ingredients to make a pretty good film...except its not. Tammy is a terrible film that keeps us in first gear and never moves and feels three hours longer than it actually is. The jokes are stale, the acting is wooden and the plot is so ridiculous and unfunny, I'm surprised they didn't make it a family drama. On my long list of problems with this film, my number one is McCarthey. Now, I personally have enjoyed McCarthey over the last 4 years, a couple funny movies and a great sitcom, she is usually good. However, her performance as Tammy is stale and boring. One thing in particular that really sets me off is the fact that Tammy is portrayed as a complete pig yet she lives in a decent place that is CLEAN??? I just don't get it. Susan Surrandon is wooden, over playing the typical grandmother saying outrageous things all while teaching her grand babies something special and witty. It doesn't happen here. Quite frankly, Tammy is like a long and drawn out trailer park adventure that teases an exit while you're on the verge of insanity with every second that passes. Overall, stay far far away from this film, it isn't even worth a rental. Even if you are madly in love with McCarthey and you love her humor, you will still hate this film.
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