Kinda Pregnant

The key to any Amy Schumer comedy is how often she gets to play self-delusion, embarrassment, fear and rage. As long as the emotions, terrors and humiliations are big, she’s funny, and her latest, “Kinda Pregnant,” gives her lots of opportunities to be funny.

Kinda Pregnant is a relatively painless, if predictable, diversion.

Deeply misconceived and steadily unfunny, this feels longer than its running time. A few moments of emotional honesty between mothers are the only bits worth watching, but they're too scant to save this mess.

Kinda Pregnant finds its groove in the more grounded and honest. The tiptoeing around big changes in one’s best friendship, the tension between joy and dread, the role of a friend when another is going through something irrevocable all get mentions that hint at something sharper and stickier. But what texture exists gets steamrolled by the loud and extreme.

Pretty much everyone in this movie is annoying all the time, and Spindel yanks us around in tone from one moment to the next: wacky, then romantic, back to wacky, then dramatic, before ending on a disastrously wacky note. Every new situation, whether it’s shopping at Toys “R” Us, a school field trip or a pre-natal therapy workshop, provides the set-up for wild humor that doesn’t land.

It could've made for a sharp comedy, but there's an ickiness that overwhelms the whole movie.

With a weak script, no visual engagement, and limp comedy despite the comedic actors on board, Kinda Pregnant was always a sure-fire miss.

This movie was cheesey fun. Like other silly comedies filled with some dirty, inappropriate humor, this one hit some of the same slapstick notes in a new and funny way. I enjoy Amy Shumer's style and loved it. And... it made the Iceman Cometh!

O filme conta com boas tiradas sobre ser mãe, mulher, a rede de apoio, algumas piadas na escola que funcionam muito bem, apresentando a protagonista e suas amigas. Todo o argumento está bem construindo. No entanto, o filme abandona o humor meio ácido e crítico para tentar encaixar um romance que só faz o filme andar pra trás: além da pouca química, o texto vai se enfraquecendo. A cena da tentativa de sexo é pra lá de constrangedora, e acaba que uma comédia meio subversiva se transforma numa comédia romântica típica.

Everything in here is harmless enough that it didn't completely turn me away even though the laughs and performances are marginal at best.

“Kinda Pregnant” is a Rom-Com that doesn’t deliver on the romance or the comedy. While the premise is barely interesting, not only does the plot, during its ninety minute runtime, in no way justify or fulfil the thesis in any way, but doesn’t even understand it’s own weak premise as the story has no direction, paper thin character motivations and a consistent confusion about what the message of this film should be by the time we reach the indescribably bland ending which was disconnected from the premise and plot “building up” to it. Even as a movie released only 40 days into the year, it’s already a clear contender for worst movie of 2025.

A few funny moments but overall a dud. Go watch Schumer’s “I Feel Pretty”. Or this director’s “The Wrong Missy” which is way funnier.