Amy Schumer film, which debuted Wednesday on Netflix, is a throwback comedy
We have by now become accustomed to the lengths some movie characters will go to keep a good comedy lie going. But it’s still a special kind of feat when Amy Schumer, playing a baby-mad single woman who fakes a baby bump in “Kinda Pregnant,” is so desperate to maintain the fiction that she shoves a roast turkey up her dress.
But like any good high-concept comedy, “Kinda Pregnant” is predominantly a far-fetched way for its star and co-writer, Schumer, to riff frankly on her chosen topic. Here, that’s the wide gamut of pregnancy experience — the body changes, the gender reveal parties, the personal jealousies — all while mixing in a healthy amount of pseudo-pregnant pratfalls.
But as middle age approaches, Lainey, a high school teacher in Brooklyn, isn’t close to her dream. At the dinner where she suspects — no, is so certain that she tears open the dessert looking for a ring — that her longtime boyfriend is going to pop the question, he instead asks her to join a threesome. Back at school, Lainey’s school lesson on “Romeo and Juliet” turns darkly cynical.
But the ruse becomes more difficult when she, during a pregnant workout class, meets a woman she genuinely likes and wants to be friends with. Even more complicated: Lainey starts falling for another guy she first meets at a coffee shop .
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