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‘Kinda Pregnant’ Review: Amy Schumer Gets Her Comic Fury Back as a Teacher Who Pretends to Be Pregnant
In its middle-of-the-road way, it taps into Schumer's comedy of masochism more successfully than any film since "Trainwreck."
Kate starts to bond with Shirley (Lizze Broadway), an icky-obnoxious teacher at school who treats her own pregnancy as if it were the chance to perfect a new kind of TikTok lap dance. At the dinner, he talks about “leveling up” their relationship, and when the waiter brings a small heart-shaped chocolate cake to the table, Lainy plunges right into it with her hands, convinced that there’s an engagement ring inside. Caught off guard and unable to tabulate the weeks, Lainy ups the New Age ante and says, “We do the Mayan calendar.” The script of “Kinda Pregnant” is by Schumer and Julie Paiva (the director is Tyler Spindel, who made “The Wrong Missy”), and it scores repeatedly with lines like that.
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