Tammy (2014)
Directed by Ben Falcone
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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As for Sarandon’s low comedy turn here, it’s nearly as embarrassing as watching Al Pacino in the Adam Sandler disaster “Jack And Jill.”
And as much as I've loved watching Sandra Bullock falling down over the years in romantic comedies like "Miss Congeniality" and "The Proposal," it's been such a treat to see her push into different terrain — from her Oscar-winning insistent mother in "The Blind Side" to her space engineer in "Gravity."
While Snatched is (thankfully) more tolerable than the recent summer stinkers Tammy (Melissa McCarthy and Susan Sarandon) and Hot Pursuit (Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara), it never really gets out of neutral.
Like Melissa McCarthy, looking for mainstream middlebrow amusement with “Tammy,” Schumer has chosen a formula “buddy” comedy with one of “The Banger Sisters” as her mom and co-star.