‘Kinda Pregnant’ Review: Amy Schumer Gets Her Comic Fury Back as a Teacher Who Pretends to Be Pregnant

variety.com:

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic In “Kinda Pregnant,” Amy Schumer has her comic fury back, and it looks great on her. So does the prosthetic baby bump that her character, a needy high-school English teacher named Lainy Newton, wears for much of the movie — though on occasion, when she runs into someone she has fooled into thinking she’s pregnant, and the prosthetic isn’t around, she’ll swap in a kid’s birthday-party balloon or even a roast chicken.

That makes the movie sound awfully broad, and “Kinda Pregnant” is an overlit middle-of-the-road Netflix comedy. But there’s a pinch of emotional reality to it.

If this were just an old-fashioned high-concept comedy, it would be all about coming up with some contrived reason for Lainy to fake pregnancy, only for her to discover, in the course of her charade, that it agrees with her. “Kinda Pregnant,” though, plays it closer to the bone.

The premise is a variation on “Bridesmaids”: When Lainy learns that Kate (Jillian Bell), her teacher colleague and best friend, has gotten pregnant, she feels completely left out of the party.