Had a feeling this one wasn’t going to be as funny as the previews made it out, and I was right. It has a lot of “snicker” moments, but few real belly laughs. Not a bad movie I don’t think, and it tries to inject some heart into the script, but its a pretty free-wandering film.
Melissa McCarthy plays Tammy, an average young adult who’s life isn’t really going anywhere, who has the worst day of her life. She hits a deer on the way to work which wrecks her car. This makes her late and thus gets fired from her job. Arriving home early she finds her husband is cheating with the neighbor, which sends her over to her parents house, who live two doors down. Here is where the adventure begins. Broke, she teams up with her alcoholic grandma, played by Susan Sarandon, for a cross country drive.
My wife really enjoyed the film, and I did think it was ok, but not hilariously funny. McCarthy’s typecast role of the loud-mouth spewing shocking interjections (Identity Thief, Bridesmaids, The Heat) continues here, and for me it is starting to get a little old. I think she’s a funny actor and hopefully she can branch out a little more in the future. She wrote and produced this one (also produced by Will Ferrell & Adam McKay), but there just wasn’t enough here.
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