KINDA PREGNANT (NETFLIX) (2025)

SYNOPSIS: Jealous of her best friend’s pregnancy, Lainy wears a fake baby bump... and accidentally meets the man of her dreams.

MOVIE REVIEW:

Comedians Amy Schumer and Adam Sandler teams up to bring you Kinda Pregnant, the kinda pointless, unfunny Netflix comedy of the month.

Schumer co-wrote and stars as Lainy, a primary school teacher who has been dreaming of starting her own family since young. Lainy thinks her current boyfriend, Dave (Damon Wayans Jr.) is about to propose. But no, he is proposing something else entirely. Meanwhile, Lainy’s best friend, Kate (Jillian Bell) is pregnant and Lainy is feeling a bit jealous, left out and even depressed about it. During a baby shopping trip with Kate, Lainy tries on a prosthetic belly and immediately feels good with all the attention she is getting from the people around her.

This leads to a friendship with an expecting mother, Megan (Brianne Hower) at a prenatal yoga class. And coincidentally, Lainy begins to develop a romantic relationship with Megan’s brother, Josh (Will Forte) as well.

If you love Schumer’s Trainwreck in which she also co-wrote, Kinda Pregnant is nothing like the latter. At least Trainwreck delivers the laughs and sentiments. Maybe because it is a Happy Madison production, we get a few juvenile laughs, mostly with Lainy falling flat on the floor or Megan’s knife-wielding toddler son stabbing Lainy’s fake belly. There is no insightful look into motherhood or any razor sharp commentary on modern woman lifestyle to save the day. It’s basically a tale of one selfish woman’s lie to satisfy herself.

Kinda Pregnant is fortunate to be filled with a few quirky characters, the boring husbands, Steve and Mark, the weird co-workers, Fallon and Shirley to pass the time. Best of all, there is Josh who is played affectionately by Will Forte. It shouldn’t be a rom-com in the first place but the story lights up a little whenever Josh and Lainy gets together. In actual fact, we rather watch a rom-com whereby Lainy is a single pregnant woman who has to navigate her way to stay together with Josh, the sweet man who drives a zamboni.

Director Tyler Spindel (The Out-Laws, The Wrong Missy) has no idea on how to make a meaningful, entertaining comedy as is the case with all of his movies. We know there are people out there who are not really big fans of Schumer’s stand-up gigs and Kinda Pregnant for sure is not her best screen work. We can only say she needs better collaborators for her next movie gig.

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Review by Linus Tee