Lainy Newton (Amy Schumer) believes that her boyfriend is about to propose to her but instead his indecent proposal is going to send her on a spiral that will somehow result in her pretending that she is pregnant. Of course this will happen to coincide with her meeting the real man of her dreams Josh (Will Forte) and being trapped in a lie. 

Kinda Pregnant is an absolutely terrible movie on Netflix that I feel bizarrely stupid for ever watching. Sometimes you think to yourself, what I need is a film which will give me a good laugh and require low mental investment. Then as you scroll through the plethora of streaming movies available, you look for that unicorn of a movie that fits in the ninety to one-hundred minute mark, is something that you have not seen before but still features some talented people and you occasionally think you have found the perfect title. Kinda Pregnant should have hit all of those buttons for me but failed so drastically I wish I had never pressed play. 

Amy Schumer is funny and her forte (this is a pun by the way, read on) is physical humour focused in the main on the female body and Will Forte (boom!) is a brilliant comedian who is great at making the peculiar funny. The fact that both of them have a rather poor radar for good projects should have been a red flag but I was sold and started the film anyway. 

The outcome is dire. Yes there are some funny moments, mostly a small montage when everyone treats Lainy as the “glowing” mother. But otherwise it is the same jokes repeated over and over with Schumer and her co-stars Jillian Bell and Urzila Carlson trying to outdo each over on rude and profanity rich comedy. By the time I got to the final fifteen-minutes when the secret has to be revealed and was thrust into the schmaltz zone I just wanted it to all end. This is actually a lie, I wanted it to end way before this point but it felt like it would read better like that. 

Possibly one of the best facets of this being a Netflix movie I guess is that you can just press stop… unless you are like me and feel the need to finish every film you start. 

A great example of how talented people can make terrible movies. Also, if you read to the end of this review I hope you find it more fun than its subject.