Cringe.
Has Amy Schumer lost her mind?
It’s hard to believe she followed up Trainwreck—with its subtle humor and emotional poignancy—with Kinda Pregnant, a film that has more in common with the worst sitcoms of all time.
The entire plot is based on an absurd premise: Amy Schumer’s character, Rainy, has a pregnant friend, so she wears a fake belly in public for fun. She loves the attention so much that she keeps wearing it… all the time.
That’s not a terrible idea—it could work in the right hands. But it doesn’t. Nearly every scene has something deeply wrong with it. Rainy is portrayed as a neurotic sociopath, making up outrageous lies and somehow getting away with them despite being terrible at it. She’s also a high school teacher, which is hard to believe. She has an expletive-ridden meltdown in front of her class—how is she not fired? How does she function in life at all?
Then there’s the yoga class for pregnant women (why is she even there?). It’s so ridiculous that it feels like no one bothered with research:
“Breathe in through your vagina. Then exhale through your butt hole.”
(Everyone starts farting.)
90% of the humor relies on Rainy making incomprehensibly bad decisions. You might laugh, but for the wrong reasons—out of secondhand embarrassment, or disbelief that someone could act so inappropriately. I cringed constantly.
The worst part? Nothing is followed through. There’s potential for real dramatic moments, but the film never commits. It’s an absurd premise, sure, and Rainy keeps making terrible choices—but if it all built up to something, maybe a big confrontation or a well-choreographed comedic disaster, it might have been worth it. But no. Nothing. Just bad writing.
The good: Will Forte comes out relatively unscathed. His character, Josh, is likable and charming—you root for him to find the right girl (which is obviously not Rainy, who even uses her fake pregnancy as an excuse to avoid sex with him—except when she doesn’t). She sleeps with him, but does everything she can to keep him from seeing or feeling her body, maintaining the illusion of her fake pregnancy. There’s even some raunchy dialogue that only adds to the absurdity of the situation. The scenes between Rainy and her actually pregnant best friend are solid. Most of the supporting characters are fine—sane, even. I didn’t mind the broader attempts at humor, like a scene at a butterfly tent where Rainy’s friend (NOT Rebel Wilson) yells for bug spray and starts a fight. I didn’t laugh, but I smiled.
I want to believe Amy Schumer is better than this. Either she’s lost her ability to write, or—more likely—she “reworked” someone else’s D-list script in a week and called it a day. She’s also too old for this role.
Kinda Pregnant. Only kinda funny.
3.5/10.
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