Film Review: KINDA PREGNANT (2025): 10 Years After TRAINWRECK, Amy Schumer is Back in a Comedy That Goes Buck Wild with Zany Humor

Kinda Pregnant Review

Kinda Pregnant (2025) Film Review, a movie directed by Tyler Spindel, written by Julie Paiva and Amy Schumer and starring Amy Schumer, Will Forte, Jillian Bell, Brianne Howey, Lizze Broadway, Urzila Carlson, Chris Geere, Damon Wayans Jr., Alex Moffat, Joel David Moore, Jackie Sandler, Molly Sims, Chris Titone, Duke McCloud, Robbie Crandall, Max Malas, Kennedy Rae Thompson and Kylie Kuioka.

2015’s Amy Schumer vehicle, Trainwreck, was a wonderful comedy that launched the gifted comic actress’s movie career. Schumer hasn’t delivered many memorable movies after that but her latest, Kinda Pregnant, will stand out as one of the zaniest, most over-the-top comedies to come on Netflix in recent years. To recognize this new movie as an Adam Sandler studio production would be possible even without seeing his company’s logo at the start.

It just boggles the mind how comedies today think they need to offend to be funny because Kinda Pregnant has, at its core, a sweet story about being 40 and single in the city today. Schumer is capable of being funny without letting it all out but director Tyler Spindel decided to let her go “buck wild” this time out and the result is a mixed bag with both funny and touching moments that are more than occasionally undermined by offensive humor that won’t please many viewers.

This film opens with the story of a schoolteacher named Lainy Newton who teaches English and William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to a class when we first see her at work. She’s the teacher schools have to be careful about because she lets her personal life interfere with her professional one as evidenced by the scene where she lights a garbage can on fire to prove a point that her loser boyfriend (Damon Wayans Jr.) is a jerk. She wanders away from the school after the class evacuates the building. How could she get her job back after that? You could have her set the can on fire and find a way to get out of being blamed for it but you can’t have her walk away without looking like an inconsiderate woman who only cares about herself. Problems like this plague the picture.

In short order, Lainy meets a man at a coffee shop named Latte (Will Forte). His name actually turns out to be Josh Lewis and Lainy later makes the quip that she thought he was gay for a bit even though she initially flirts with him in the coffee shop. Lainy is miserable because her ex wanted her to have a threesome instead of marrying her. She expected an engagement ring to be in a cake he orders which she demolishes with her hands after which she walks out of the restaurant right after taking her dress off. They’d send her to the closest mental hospital in real life but in this movie, she’s supposed to be relatable.

Jillian Bell is Kate, the pregnant friend of Lainy who inspires Lainy to put a fake belly on to inspire people to treat her nicely. Those scenes actually are humorous. People react differently to pregnant ladies than other ones (most of the time) and it’s funny seeing folks respond to Lainy and be helpful even though she’s faking a pregnancy to get a bit of attention. Lainy befriends a woman named Megan (a charming Brianne Howey) and they bond. In one scene, Megan’s kid accidentally stabs Lainy’s stomach padding with a scissor. That could be funny because she’s not really pregnant but it’s also a bit alarming that the child could do something so wild within the confines of his own house.

Jackie Sandler makes an appearance as a yoga teacher and this makes for some fart humor as women pass gas in a sequence that is more gross than funny. Urzila Carlson as a woman called Fallon, a colleague of Lainy’s, is the funniest part of Kinda Pregnant and Fallon even tries to copy Lainy’s idea by slapping on a fake belly herself. It’s quite hysterical thanks to Carlson’s dead-on comic timing.

Schumer has a lot of admirable qualities that made me respond to certain scenes of Kinda Pregnant a lot better than I wanted to. Most importantly, Schumer is funny. We want to relate to her, not hear her cursing people out and going “buck wild” doing things that in any world outside of this movie would get her locked up in jail. I suppose I’m being a bit harsh here and should just let it go and accept that it’s a comedy. There is still good chemistry between Schumer and Forte and a nice rapport between Schumer and Bell that made me enjoy many scenes in this picture.

However, the frank nature of the humor could turn some viewers off. Apparently, people have warmed up to this film and it’s going to be some kind of hit for Netflix no matter what I say. There’s certainly worse ways to kill 100 minutes than spending it with the always hard-working Schumer. Damon Wayans Jr. also appears to be having fun on-screen in his moments within the picture and he’s always very funny just like the family he is a part of.

Kinda Pregnant mostly goes for laughs but also features sappy scenes as Lainy must tell the truth to the people she lied to about being pregnant. I was actually moved by the sensitivity of some of these parts of the picture. It’s a close call but Schumer needs to take it down a notch in her next movie. If she looked at the wonderful Trainwreck, she’d remember how to make a movie zany, offbeat and likable. It’s a close call but Kinda Pregnant just goes too far to warrant a recommendation although I admire the many things it does do right.

Rating: 6/10

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