Condescending and trite
"Tammy" would have been a cutting edge movie...in 1991. I could really do without the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" speech from Kathy Bates. That's the usual Hollywood rich-people-to-the-rescue claptrap. I also think we've seen enough fabulous lesbian stuff. I know some fabulous lesbians and I think they would concur.
I would rather have seen more hell-raising and less moralizing. "Tammy" is one of those movies that wants to warm your heart. It starts out with look at this fat woman making a wreck of her life, and ends with haven't we all learned a little something here? I hate that kind of a movie!