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Melissa McCarthy has become an improbable star playing irrationally confident forces of nature whose size might be used for physical punch lines. Her titular Tammy is a perpetual screw-up who loses her job, car and husband in one day, then decides to leave town on a road trip with her alcoholic grandmother (Susan Sarandon). At the outset, this feels like comfortable familiar territory for McCarthy, and she’s well-paired with Sarandon, who gives an edge to the tired trope of the profane granny. But there’s an inconsistency between Tammy the buffoon who bumbles through robbing a fast-food restaurant, and Tammy who later simply seems beaten down by life. McCarthy’s got the chops to play someone who’s not merely clownish, but it’s hard to work the dramatic arc while still selling audiences a completely different comic character who looks funny falling down.
Official Site: tammymovie.warnerbros.com
Director: Ben Falcone
Producer: Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Melissa McCarthy, Rob Cowan, Ben Falcone, Chris Henchy, Kevin Messick, Toby Emmerich, Richard Brener and Michael Disco
Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates, Allison Janney, Dan Aykroyd, Mark Duplass, Gary Cole, Toni Collette, Nat Faxon, Sandra Oh, Ben Falcone, Sarah Baker, Rich Williams, Steve Little, Dakota Lee, Mark L. Young and Mia Frampton
Director: Ben Falcone
Producer: Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Melissa McCarthy, Rob Cowan, Ben Falcone, Chris Henchy, Kevin Messick, Toby Emmerich, Richard Brener and Michael Disco
Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates, Allison Janney, Dan Aykroyd, Mark Duplass, Gary Cole, Toni Collette, Nat Faxon, Sandra Oh, Ben Falcone, Sarah Baker, Rich Williams, Steve Little, Dakota Lee, Mark L. Young and Mia Frampton
