Thanks for the memories!

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

If ever there was a real, true ten, some movie with absolutely nothing wrong to spoil the fun you are having, it's this one. Usually there's some point or other in a movie that makes me uneasy at least. Something racist, or along these lines. Some stupid, harmful cliché. Some mean streak. Something unbelievable or out of character. Something that drags on too long. Not here. This one is just very funny (which is, I admit it, highly depending on taste) in a friendly way. By that I do not mean that it's what you call good clean family-fun, though. It just doesn't bother with deriding people for being what they are or feel. It's true to human nature without being disdainful. It's intelligent but not snobby. It's truly equalistic - equalism being the form of feminism that counts in, simply everyone. It's also quite beautiful, has a good score, perfect cutting and acting that'd take your breath away if you had the detachment to stop and think about the fact that these PEOPLE are actually actors doing their job. Also it's rather surprising several times, and that in itself is something of a rarity for a movie-addict. I'd highly recommend buying the DVD. It's ridiculously cheap to be had. I'm glad I did.

The first few scenes of this movie are as funny as it gets, and even then it is only mildly amusing. I don't know why, but I still feel that 'Tammy' had the potential to be a very funny movie, but they managed to screw it up badly.I don't blame Melissa McCarthy - despite being thoroughly unfunny throughout, she has to work with what she is given, and what she was given was complete and utter sh*t. The script is awful, the directing extremely poor. They somehow even managed to make Tammy's Grandma, played by Susan Sarandon, a dislikable character, when she really shouldn't have been.Not good at all, especially for a road trip movie in which there were so many opportunities to make a funny and entertaining film.

At first, the comedy looked so funny. What a poor woman, Tammy is. But you are so so so stubborn. But until Tammy got fired (or resigned according to herself), the story became so flat. It was too constrained. Almost all of it. The comedy became too mainstream to me. And maybe if the story only focus to Tammy, I mean not about a grandchild babysitting a grandmother, the story would be stronger. I myself had prepared to see how Tammy's handle the chaos in her life, but I didn't get what I want. It's more about the grandma's life.I really hate Susan's hair. Can you get a better wig to look old? And... If I didn't read the blurb after I finish the movie (Yes, I always read the blurb after, not before), i would be so lost about this movie. I wouldn't see the point.

I loved this and I (apparently) love Melissa McCarthy, but my favourite was Kathy Bates. For me this movie classifies as a "stupid comedy" (my favourite is Dodgeball) and within this "genre" I found it to be very enjoyable. The film's a mess, everyone in it is a mess, but somehow the whole thing works. It's crazy, it's ridiculous, it's predictable and sloppy, but I love it! I also think that McCarthy and Sarandon have great chemistry - unlike basically everyone else who watched this movie it would seem - and I really enjoyed how this comedy focused on interesting women for once. Granted it's not perfect, but it's definitely one for the re-watch folder for me.