Kinda Pregnant Review: A Fake Bump & Real Chaos
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Amy Schumer plays a different kind of train wreck in the 2025 Netflix comedy Kinda Pregnant, where her character Lainy, an English teacher, fakes being pregnant right after a brutal break-up, just because people are a lot nicer to expectant mothers. But things get complicated when she makes a great new friend and falls for a new guy who thinks she is pregnant. How is she going to get her fake belly story straight now?
I picked Kinda Pregnant to watch on a two-hour flight due to its 97-minute runtime, confident the comedy would keep me busy until landing. However, writers Julie Paiva and Amy Schumer struggle to deliver fresh, laugh-out-loud moments in the first half, which led me to take a break from the film after half an hour. I mean, this film was supposed to be a break, then I had to take a break from my break. But… but… that’s not to say it’s completely unfunny – it does have some comical scenes.
The film opens with a flashback to establish how Lainy always wanted to get married and be a mom ever since she was a child. So when Lainy’s best friend Kate (Jillian Bell) gets pregnant before her, a jealous Lainy ends up with a fake belly, pretending to be pregnant around a select few people. Among them is the feisty, angry mom Megan, played by the charming Brianne Howey, and new crush Josh Lewis (Will Forte). Lizzé Broadway plays Shirley, an annoying colleague from Lainy’s school who is also pregnant and thus bonds with Kate. Urzila Carlson plays Fallon, a nutty guidance counselor and Lainy’s only friend who is aware of the pregnancy sham.
We all know what happens in a comedy based on a lie – things go great for the protagonist at first, then they get into trouble for lying, then comes the apology, and everything is almost hunky-dory in the end. Kinda Pregnant sticks to that formula. It also tries to be a romantic comedy in the second half, serving up the usual cliché of lovers falling out before the climax, only for one of them to pull off a cheesy grand gesture to win the other back and seal things with a kiss.
There really isn’t much to critique about Kinda Pregnant, it’s just another run-of-the-mill comedy you can watch in your free time if you really can’t think of a better one to stream.
Rating: 4 on 10. You can watch Kinda Pregnant on Netflix.
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