Kinda Pregnant Review – Amy Schumer’s Netflix comedy is quite disappointing | Comedy movie

L.A me be clear: I am always rooted for Amy Schumer, although she sometimes makes it difficult. When she is good, she is big and for the most part it was on the Inside Amy Schumer, her Zeitgeist-Y Comedy Central Sketch Show, which ran from 2013-2016. Schumer’s brand of comedy-Bawdy, self-printing, points to overall sexism, while spearing on certain types of white women-vest both resident and critical of pop feminist era, your excess best friend during the personal essay boom.

For better and at least on the big screen, for worse, Schumer’s Sensibility is back there. Kinda Pregnant, her new movie on Netflix, plays hits schumer is known for – shameless physical comedy, Frank discussion of bodies, brash rejection of playing good girl – but feeling firm in the past and is unable to generate new sparks. Written by Schumer and Julie Paiva and directed by Tyler Spindle, Kinda Pregnant continues a number of undergoing Hollywood vehicles since 2015’s train wager, which has Hamstrung Schumer’s talent with under-par-writing (2018’s I feel beautiful) or planning (2017’s snatched).

This time the question is more existential: Although it tries – there is pratfall and physical gags in everything – there is just not so much fun to be found here. If the 2022 start of the Inside Amy Schumer showed the limits of his current comedy after Trump, Kinda Pregnant shows the dead end of this particular cartoon-fuck-up. It doesn’t help that the 100 minute movie has the stunning taste of Netflix Satisfied: Overlit, Underkokt, check boxes by putting a lot of fun people together and hoping for the best.

The setup must be, um, fertile reason for schums, pregnancy and childbirth that say that the distorting of the female body – the site of her most ruthless and revealing jokes – shipping with the cultural manuscripts she loves to flow. Schumer himself is no stranger to pregnancy prices, after documenting his own hard pregnancy in the 2020 documentals that expected Amy and extracted his ribald absurdities for 2019 Standup Special Growing.

Here she plays the other side of child-free/parent friends (a rich topic!) Like Lainy, an uncensored and increasingly unhinged Brooklyn school teacher in a strangely affordable Williamsburg who has long been desperate after starting a family. In her early 40s and four years deep in a relationship with Dave (Damon Wayan’s JR), detailed, unknown besides being a CAD, she believes she is at the bottom of a commitment and thus her dreams. It all blasts spectacularly and for the viewer, Tirsomely – I appreciate an attempt to revive the old study comedy, but again Pratfall too plenty – at an inappropriate time. A day after she is so desperate for a ring, she digs for it in a cake, Lainy teaches her forever best friend Kate (Jillian Bell) is pregnant.

Siege by jealousy – Schumer, as usual, is good at playing a woman who is characterized through the script “I am so excited about you” while it doesn’t really mean it – Lainy entertains a flight of fancy: what if she just was going on She was pregnant with a fake bump? The world becomes an Alf-Esque oysters, all cooing and congratulations and gifted seats on the subway. And because this movie entertains a fluid sense of magical realism and Brooklyn-As-Small Town, a friendship with the actually pregnant Megan (Brianne Howey), a young mother desperate to connect with horrors and loneliness in the efforts, whose brother just saw it Is the guy Lainy flirted at the coffee shop (Will Forte).

Hijinks follows with a strenuous physical edge – Kinda Pregnant picks up a good majority of her humor from Schumer, filling a series of objects under her shirt when caught ignorant, or hiding the russian from different parties. There is exciting nuggets here: the way society condescending to pregnant women (and now criminalizing, though smart not mentioned; implication is enough), the crazy that creates uncertainty by falling behind one’s friends where jealousy comes with joy. Bell is especially good as the film’s reason voice, though it still throws a common baby shower with the worst parody of the Gen Z New Jerseyans I’ve seen in Shirley (Lizze Broadway) and her rear-hat bridge man Rawn (Alex Moffat).

Ironically for a comedy that is so bent by the scandalous as it is marked by Kiwi comedian Urzila Carlson’s vaping school counselor, Kinda finds her groove in the more grounded and honest. The tipto of great changes in one’s best friendship, the tension between joy and fear, a friend’s role, when another undergoes something irrevocable, all mentions that suggest something sharper and sticky. But what structure is found is the steam roll by the high and extreme. Schumer’s style – power and exaggeration, pushing boundaries to sometimes funny ends – may have reached its limit.