We've expected makeover narratives and personal-growth realizations from women on screen... in Tammy, we get a character - and her creator - patently uninterested in most of that journey. For Hollywood, that's radical.

| Jan 22, 2021

'Tammy' is a disappointment, because it asks an energetic, unpredictable performer to play it so calculatingly, frustratingly safe.

| Jun 18, 2016

The filmmakers never quite find the balance between real-life experience and freewheeling nonsense that drives the best comic road movies.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 17, 2014

[Something] in Tammy you wouldn't expect to see in a mainstream comedy [is] the romantic pairing of McCarthy with indie heartthrob Mark Duplass, reversing the formula of the male slob who gets the conventionally beautiful girl.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 16, 2014

The movie's principal intention is to make you laugh at a loser, and revel in scenes from which polite people would instinctively turn away.

| Jul 7, 2014

The film, though, is as erratic as Tammy's driving, veering dangerously from gross-out comedy to rank sentimentality with no real sense of where it is headed.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 7, 2014

It's a rambling, pointless and labored attempt to cash in on Ms. McCarthy's fan base without respect for any audience with a collective IQ of 10. And it's about as funny as a liver transplant.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jul 6, 2014

McCarthy remains a winning screen presence, and the fact that so many A-listers have jumped aboard to share screen time with her speaks volumes about her standing within the brutal world of big-screen comedy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 6, 2014

McCarthy's performance of unself-conscious uncouthness celebrates the freedom to be undignified. And, still, it's being misused.

| Jul 6, 2014

Tammy is an object lesson in the art of directing, which is all it would have taken to turn this near-miss into an instant classic. Though that may be true of most mediocre movies.

| Jul 6, 2014

McCarthy's latest vehicle, Tammy, misfires.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 6, 2014

A lot of good actors are wasted in this film in bit roles, including Allison Janney, Sandra Oh, and Dan Aykroyd. The ones with bigger roles, like Mark Duplass and Kathy Bates, are wasted, too.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 6, 2014

Tammy is a wince-worthy missed opportunity

Full Review | Jul 6, 2014

Like a classic road comedy, this tends to drift from scene to scene rather than adhere to a strict plot; the movie revolves mostly around McCarthy, hilarious in her best performance to date.

| Jul 6, 2014

Unimaginatively filmed and of a misbegotten construction.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 6, 2014

Eventually the film does manage to find its own awkward way, with enough effective and less desperate jokes to smooth things over after the rocky start.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Jul 3, 2014

Melissa McCarthy shines in this grease-sodden hymn to the state of modern America.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 3, 2014

Tammy is funny, and it has stamina.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 3, 2014

The laughs are mostly uninspired, but with "Tammy," context is everything.

| Jul 3, 2014

A watchable mishap, all round.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 3, 2014