Movie Review: Kinda Pregnant
March 12, 2o25
This movie is like a new Bridesmaids to me in that, it hits home in a way that Bridesmaids did and hurt in a way that Bridesmaids did. If you know me, and have asked me about that movie, you know that I didn’t really find it funny. If anything it was a drama with a few funny parts. I felt really seen by Kristen Wiigs character because she was losing friends because they were in the same stage of life and she was not. She was still single and she was no where close to getting married, but her best friend was going through all these big life changes without her. She was feeling left behind and like she was losing her best friend, which caused her to lash out and act irrationally. This movie felt very similar to that, but in a new way.
I had this friend in college who straight up told me that she was going to be cutting everyone out of her life once she started having kids, and at the time I really didn't believe her. I thought it was so far off that there is no way that she could know that, and honestly, there is no way she wouldn’t want me in her life after she had kids, but much to my surprise, she lived by her word and cut me out of her life once she had kids. I haven’t talked to her in years. She wasn’t the only one, I had friends that said that we were going to be best friends forever, and I have barely spoken to them since they had children, and not for a lack of trying. This being said, I understand that your life changes a lot and your priorities change a lot when you become a parent, especially a mom, but I cannot imagine cutting everyone out of my life because of it. Someone who was once one of my closest friends, now only wants to be friends with other moms and the people who live near her. Which I can understand to an extent. I was once angry, but I am not anymore. Now it just makes me sad to think about.
Overall, I felt like this sentiment was pretty accurately captured in this movie. At the beginning, Amy Schumer’s character, Lainy, thinks she is about to get purposed to by her boyfriend of four years. Much to her dismay, he asks her if she would be willing to open up their relationship. She is heartbroken, and calls up her best friend since childhood to meet up for drinks and talk about it, but her friend isn’t drinking, and without much sleuthing, Lainy finds out her best friend is pregnant. Lainy has always wanted to be a wife and a mom and now that she is in her forties, she feels like she is behind in life and is confused as to why her best friend, who always said she didn’t want to have kids, is getting to live her dream. Throughout the course of the movie, Lainy is desperately trying to be there for her friend during her pregnancy, but her jealousy is overwhelming, and she is not the best friend she could be. This leads her friend to find friendship among other women going through the same things as her, and Lainy feels like she has been booted out of her best friends life. One day, they go shopping together at a pregnancy boutique and Lainy tries on a false belly and falls in love with the way she looks. She ends up taking it with her, and later in the week, takes herself to a pregnancy yoga class and meets a new friend who is also pregnant. Only, she is actually pregnant, unlike Lainy. She falls deep into a web of her own lies and feels even more alienated from everyone around her, while simultaneously falling in love with the man of her dreams and finding herself in ways she didn’t know she could. She feels lost in her lies and in losing her friend and in not being where she thought she would be in life.
Like Bridesmaids, this movie ends in a happy ending, and there are plenty of funny bits and bobs, but overall it feels really real and honest. I am not sure what they were really going for, but having lost my close friends to motherhood, it is hard not to get emotional while watching this movie. It also has not gone over well with a lot of people. I saw a lot of reviews saying it was boring and underwhelming, but I guess I am the demographic that it was made for, because it made me feel things (other than just embarrassment due to everything that Amy Schumer is. )Overall I would suggest it, but go into it knowing that it is more than just a funny movie about a fake pregnancy.
