Netflix Movie Review: Kinda Pregnant

Standup comedian, actor, screenwriter, and director Amy Schumer has worked in the movie industry for many years. In her book, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo", Schumer describes the incredible dues she has paid trying to be a stand-up comedian. Schumer's dues are similar to the dues paid by Kevin Hart, described in his book "I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons" . Very few people would have the staying power to attempt to be a stand-up comedian in the United States, considering so many years of extreme hardship. The traveling, the low pay, the bombing, rude crowds, and ultimately the years when nothing happens - always close to being either very poor or homeless.

For the few who hit it big, like Kevin Hart and Amy Schumer, the rewards, fame, and money can be amazing, with Amy Schumer worth 45 million and Kevin Hart, 450 million. In recent years Schumer has been concentrating on her HULU Series "Life and Beth", which was a very good series rated 89% on Rotten Tomatoes and less on her stand-up career.

Schumer has now written 4 movies, with the outstanding "Trainwreck", (2015), "Snatched" (2017), and "I Feel Pretty" (2018), which were not nearly as funny as Trainwreck with a few laugh-out-loud moments. It has been seven years since Schumer has written another comedy screenplay, with her latest movie "Kinda Pregnant". This time this new movie is only released on Netflix.

I thought Kinda Pregnant was not as good as Trainwreck, but had many very funny moments, with a premise about a jilted woman lying to the world about being pregnant, a rather far-fetched and risky but funny idea. The ridiculously low 17% Rotten Tomatoes rating for this film is just about the most incorrect I have ever seen for a comedy movie, almost as if the critics have no idea what a funny movie is, or perhaps have a problem with Amy Schumer. Despite Schumer's success, one can only imagine the shock that she experienced after reading the bad reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, considering the time and effort spent to create what is in fact a funny comedy movie.

This movie stars Schumer as Lainy Newton and Will Forte as Josh Lewis, who Lainy becomes involved with later in the story after her long-term boyfriend Dave played by Damon Wayans admits he would rather have a threesome, than ask her to marry him - setting up the entire premise of this story.

I thought this film was a high 85% and had many very funny moments, so rare in too many comedy movies in recent years. In this case, the critics on Rotten Tomatoes have never been more wrong and I give Kinda Pregnant a solid recommendation.