Kinda Pregnant 2025

Sinopsis

When Lainy’s plan to settle down and start a family falls apart, she puts on a fake baby bump, tells a lie — and accidentally falls for her dream guy.

Cast

• Amy Schumer as Lainy Newton, a teacher who pretends to be pregnant
• Will Forte as Josh Lewis, a man who becomes Lainy’s love interest
• Jillian Bell as Kate, a teacher and Lainy’s best friend
• Brianne Howey as Megan Taylor, a pregnant woman that Lainy befriends
• Lizze Broadway as Shirley, a younger teacher
• Urzila Carlson as Fallon, a co-worker of Lainy
• Chris Geere as Steve, the brother-in-law of Josh, husband of Megan
• Damon Wayans Jr. as Dave, a man who was Lainy’s boyfriend for four years
• Alex Moffat as Rawn
• Joel David Moore as Mark
• Molly Sims as the prenatal workshop teacher
• Dave Attell as Shirley’s Father
• Francis Benhamou as Jane, a pregnant yoga class student
• Jackie Sandler as Yoga Class Teacher
• Allison Strong as Dumbo Waitress
• Tyler Spindel as the voice of Andy

Review

If the aftermath of the pandemic saw a number of horror movies about the miseries of maternity, another subgenre is making a comeback: the pregnancy comedy. Like “Babes” before it, Tyler Spindel’s “Kinda Pregnant” (on Netflix) takes childbearing, rearing and regretting and spins them into a romp.

Starring a feral Amy Schumer, this clunker of a movie opens with a first act that appears filched from “Legally Blonde”: a marriage proposal that isn’t. The romantic letdown — which finds our heroine, Lainy (Schumer), shrieking in Spanx in public — coincides with the pregnancy of her bestie, Kate (Jillian Bell). What’s left for a gal to do other than don a silicone belly in envy?

The potential of this bizarre prenatal cosplay for blows — and burns, and a stab wound — to Lainy’s fake stomach does not go overlooked, although the traditional cycle of the seasons seems to have been. Despite tracing Kate’s gestation from autumn to spring, the movie’s weather and attire are all over the place.

Most egregiously, the world of “Kinda Pregnant” is filled with dopey men and despairing women whose torments, parental or otherwise, make for a land mine of comedy duds. Will Forte, playing a deus ex man-child, does manage to pull off a few funny lines and some real chemistry with Schumer. But this is a movie less interested in relationships than in the sundry items, from a balloon to a rotisserie chicken, that Lainy can stuff under her shirt to fake a baby bump.