‘Kinda Pregnant’ Review: Amy Schumer delivers in Raunchy ROMCOM

What it is about When lone school teacher Lainy (Amy Schumer) accompanies her pregnant friend Kate (Jillian Bell) to a maternity store, she discovers a fake foam dake and gets an idea: Why not try it and play get faith? Suddenly treated like a queen of Saleslady, Lainy decides to cradle onto the street and keep Ruse going.

Participation in an elite segment of the New York Society – The Expecting – Lainy finds new friends and a sense of affliction. However, the clock is ticking on her big lie, especially when she meets Josh (Will Forte), a lovely guy who obviously falls for her, shock and all.

Mine says Everywhere you see these days, women dynamize the myths that traditionally defined them. They have taken a marriage (Miranda July’s novel “All Fire”), Sex (the controversial drama “Babygirl”), Monogamy (Molly Roden Winter’s Memoir “More”) and Motherhood (Amy Adam’s Vehicle “Nightbitch”). Amy Schumer’s Raunchy Romcom for Netflix, “Kinda Pregnant”, may not generate the kind of shaky up-ed pieces that the other works have, but it is in the same ballpark. It is an honest and often fun look at the pressure, humiliation and disappointments of pregnancy along with the joys.

It is also a welcome return for Rockville Center-Raised Schumer, whose profile has worked something low since “Expected Amy”, a 2020 miniseries where she chroniced her own difficult pregnancy. Schumer is a natural like Lainy-good-hearted, eager to please, but always always the jokes of life. In the first half of the film, she falls down a staircase in an exclusive restaurant, almost burns her school down and drowns almost an employee. If slapstick here generally leaves a little to be desired, the dialogue often compensates for it: Lainy’s increasingly strange explanations for her pregnancy (at one point she credit a doordash driver) to a good running gag.

The film also benefits from a fairly strong role crew. Bell (of “Saturday Night Live” and “Eastbound & Down”) are both fun and moving like Kate, who has her own problems, including a clueless man (Joel David Moore), morning sick and gray hair in a shocking new place.

Brianne Howey takes the limited role Megan, the beautiful mother who only seems to have it all, and pretty deep gives it a depth. Australia’s Urzila Carlson plays a wildly inappropriate guidance adviser named Fallon; It’s the kind of role you’ve seen a little too often, but Carlson works well. “The results are in,” she says a student. “You’re stupid.”

It’s also nice to see Forte playing a leading man and he pairs well with Schumer. Their meeting cute in a coffee shop has charms, and the later stages of a funny tortured sex scene that avoids any detection of Lainy’s fake bump.

Written by Schumer with Julia Paiva (who gets the credit for the story), and directed by Tyler Spindle, owes “Kinda Pregnant” a great debt to Judd Apatow’s classic R-classified comedies and perhaps to the influence of Adam Sandler, whose happy Madison Company produced it . The film has a slightly under-budgeted feeling (except a bang-up final just before the closure credits) and its comment may not be the sharpest. But if you are in the mood for a windy little comedy about one of life’s most disturbing events, “Kinda delivers pregnant”.

The bottom line Schumer gives a welcome return in an entertaining riff on the hardship of pregnancy.