Amy Schumer in Sleepig Netflix -Comedy

IN Kinda pregnantAn inert Netflix -comedy directed by Tyler spindle from a script bound by Julie Paiva and Amy Schumer leads baby fever to questionable decision making and a bisarr, but ultimately predictable adventure.

As long as Lainy Newton (Schumer) can remember, she has wanted to be a mother. In the first scene we see a young Lainy (Jayne Sowers) use her dolls to arrange a birth with her friend Kate (Julianna Layne). Bound by the quiet grief over losing a mother, the girls assume their roles: Lainy as the pregnant patient who sparks explosives, and Kate as the supportive friend (or maybe she is the doctor) and yells, “Push!” Although Kate hates playing this game every day and doesn’t even know if she wants to be a mother, she spoils Lainy who seems to have a child is one of the most important things a person can do.

A few decades later, Lainy and Kate live in New York and are still close. Lainy is a public school English teacher in Brooklyn, and while it is not clear what Kate is doing, the two wake up to each other’s FaceTime calls, a sign of their lasting intimacy. But when Kate tells Lainy she is pregnant, the news threatens to destabilize their relationship. After recently broken up with her long -term girlfriend (Damon Wayan’s Jr.), Lainy is now overwhelmed that her best friend gets to live the life she dreamed for herself.

In the vein of Adult best friends and BabesAt Kinda pregnant Observing what happens when friends begin to grow in different directions. Can’t admit the depth of her jealousy (here the tale goes into Baby Mom Territory), Lainy distances himself from Kate to pamper with her own imagination. The middle school teacher begins to wear a fake baby pump and participate in a birth class where she becomes friend with Megan (Brianne Howey), a guy (and real) mother to be. The lie is taking scandalous twists and Lainy soon finds himself romantically bound with Megan’s brother Josh (Will Forte), in a development intended to increase the emotional efforts.

Unlike Delaney Buffett’s adorable debut or Ilana Glazer’s Maternal Romp, Kinda pregnant Does not deliver charming protagonists or sustainable humor. It is a tough affair that throws himself in his Zany prerequisite and a handful of funny moments. The central friendship is so underdeveloped that it inspires questions as to why the two characters are still in contact, and Schumer does not balancing the emotional and comic demands of her character in a meaningful way. The result is a movie composed of awkward gags and styled gripping.

There are a few smart bits in Kinda pregnantwho is considering the way the world treats pregnant women. Although Lainy says she wants to be a mother because of her own loss, there is a part of her who enjoys the attention awarded to a pregnancy organ. Teenagers comment on her glowing skin, straphangers rush to give up their seats, and passersby offers warm smiles. This external treatment emphasizes the dissonance that actual pregnant women – which Lainy meets while participating in prenatal classes with Megan – feel. Megan, who expects his second child, often shares with Lainy how the lonely experience can be. Her confessions highlight how abandoned Kate, who is strangely relegated to a side character, must also feel without her boyfriend’s friend.

While Kate is planning her child, Lainy finds acceptance within the Megan course. She begins to flirt with and then randomly date Megan’s brother Josh, a discreet Zamboni driver rolling from his own breakdown. The two share a similar sense of humor, and Lainy sees a real opportunity for a future with him. Of course, there is the awkward reality of her fake pregnancy. The prerequisite allows Schumer to experiment with physical comedy, but it extends too long and becomes increasingly uncomfortable, especially as Megan and Josh both will trust Lainy. There is a version of this story that finds complexity and surprising heart in the concept but Kinda pregnant prefer to remain on the surface.

That lowness puts more pressure on the comedy, which is challenging because Kinda pregnant is also not unusually fun. Most of the laughs come from supporting characters (Lizze Broadway and Urzila Carlson are especially strong), and for all its good intentions, the film is so formal that it is boring. We know that Lainy will eventually be found out, but the story is struggling to keep us curious, and Spindel’s discreet direction can’t get the lost momentum back. The result is a movie that not only seems uncertain about its purpose but loses steam before it ever really gets started.