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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.
John Anderson, Wall Street Journal
Overview
For burger-joint employee Tammy, a bad day keeps getting worse. She wrecks her car, loses her job, and finds that her husband has been unfaithful. It's time to hit the road, but without money or transportation, Tammy's options are limited. Her only choice is a road trip with her hard-drinking grandmother Pearl, who has a car, cash, and an itch to see Niagara Falls. It's not the escape Tammy had in mind, but it may be what she needs.
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Rotten
It's obnoxious when it means to be comic, and excruciating when it wants to be moving.
Michael Sragow, Orange County Register
Rotten
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.
Rex Reed, New York Observer
Rotten
McCarthy's performance of unself-conscious uncouthness celebrates the freedom to be undignified. And, still, it's being misused.
Wesley Morris, Grantland
Rotten
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.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
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