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Wesley Morris, Grantland: McCarthy's performance of unself-conscious uncouthness celebrates the freedom to be undignified. And, still, it's being misused. Read more
Sara Stewart, New York Post: This pastiche of sitcomy episodes never gels into a plot. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: 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. Read more
John Anderson, Wall Street Journal: 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. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It just isn't very funny. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: [It] could be an artifact from some alternate universe: the creatures there resemble Earthlings but have an entirely different and debased idea of what's funny. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: A well-meaning personal project that never rises above the level of amiable mediocrity ... Read more
A.A. Dowd, AV Club: McCarthy is going to need better material if she's going to transition into a rom-com career. Read more
Barbara VanDenburgh, Arizona Republic: Equal parts funny and heartfelt - but also less than the sum of its parts. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: If only "Tammy" were funnier, more structured, less of a mess! But then it might be just another Hollywood formula film. Read more
Drew Hunt, Chicago Reader: Like a classic road comedy, this tends to drift from scene to scene rather than adhere to a strict plot; the movie revolves mostly around McCarthy, hilarious in her best performance to date. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: In McCarthy, we have a performer we can trust to deliver laughs even when they barely exist on the page. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: A lot of good actors are wasted in this film in bit roles, including Allison Janney, Sandra Oh, and Dan Aykroyd. The ones with bigger roles, like Mark Duplass and Kathy Bates, are wasted, too. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Tammy is a wince-worthy missed opportunity Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: [McCarthy] has the potential to be so much more. She can't be a whole lot less than she is in "Tammy." Read more
Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly: Even when the material falls short, [McCarthy's] never not worth watching. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: The film progresses from merely unfunny to unconvincing to dull. Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: There are some laughs and, at least on screen, more than a few tears. But it doesn't come together with the kind of satisfying punch a comedy should deliver. Read more
Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News: "Tammy" is all over the map. But mostly in a good way. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: Without a strong story or well-defined character to guide her, McCarthy resorts to old tricks and repeated routines. Read more
Richard Brody, New Yorker: 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. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The real problem with the movie is simple - it's just not funny enough, and too worried about making McCarthy's usual hilarious supporting character into a woman sympathetic enough (that is, bland enough) to be the heroine. Read more
Ian Buckwalter, NPR: Eventually the film does manage to find its own awkward way, with enough effective and less desperate jokes to smooth things over after the rocky start. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: The fact that it stars the extremely funny Melissa McCarthy is both its saving grace and incredibly frustrating. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: How do you solve a problem like Melissa McCarthy? That question feels inescapable after watching her try to powerlift "Tammy," her newest and least funny comedy, all by her lonesome. Read more
Michael Sragow, Orange County Register: It's obnoxious when it means to be comic, and excruciating when it wants to be moving. Read more
David Hiltbrand, Philadelphia Inquirer: McCarthy bum-rushes the role like John Candy with a sour, combative disposition, reacting to every humiliation and rejection with feisty hostility. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It's often said for films of this sort that it's the journey that matters, not the destination. Unfortunately, in this case, neither is worth the price of admission. Read more
Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com: [The material] requires a light touch that sometimes eludes Falcone. But the intention is admirable, as is the focus on flawed female characters and the way they relate to each other. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: As a first-time director, Falcone has trouble maintaining a specific tone - the movie wobbles back and forth between sentimentality and silliness, sometimes even within the same scene. Read more
Aisha Harris, Slate: The playful energy between McCarthy and her completely game co-star, Susan Sarandon is more than enough to keep the movie humming along. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It's more a pile of incidents than a story. Without a guiding focus, McCarthy's boisterous comic energy runs amok. The result barely holds together as a movie. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: McCarthy and first-time director Falcone must have assumed that tossing a drunk and a dunce into a Cadillac would negate the need for a motive or even a script. Read more
Courtney Shea, Globe and Mail: As a script it is uneven and tonally inconsistent - best as a brainless, gross-out comedy, less successful when striving for emotional poignancy. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: There is playing to your strengths and there is cringing overkill and with the road comedy Tammy, Melissa McCarthy is getting awfully close to the latter. Read more
Keith Uhlich, Time Out: They have little feel for the technical side of filmmaking; the imagery is flat and the editing amateurish. Most shots seem held for a beat too long or too short, wreaking havoc with the comic rhythm. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Tammy aspires to be a latter-day Thelma & Louise, and since it co-stars Susan Sarandon, one could say at least it has its Louise. But that's about it. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: It's just ... off. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: "Tammy" is a bummer, not least because McCarthy's fans know she's better than this. Read more