{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Public Square Magazine","provider_url":"https:\/\/publicsquaremag.org","title":"Kinda Pregnant, Kinda Forgettable, Mostly Raunchy - Public Square Magazine","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"4tSlmuRSrr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/publicsquaremag.org\/bulletin\/kinda-pregnant-kinda-forgettable-mostly-raunchy\/\">Kinda Pregnant, Kinda Forgettable, Mostly Raunchy<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/publicsquaremag.org\/bulletin\/kinda-pregnant-kinda-forgettable-mostly-raunchy\/embed\/#?secret=4tSlmuRSrr\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Kinda Pregnant, Kinda Forgettable, Mostly Raunchy&#8221; &#8212; Public Square Magazine\" data-secret=\"4tSlmuRSrr\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/publicsquaremag.org\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n<\/script>\n","description":"Amy Schumer is a mood.\u00a0 About ten years ago it seemed like she was about to break out as the next great all-American comedian. But her material never softened. She never found a safe sitcom to mold her jokes into something that would be network-approved. She had her hard stand-up audience and she kept it. \u201cKinda Pregnant\u201d is perhaps the most Amy Schumer film yet made, and certainly the most since \u201cTrainwreck.\u201d If you like the Amy-Schumer schtick, I imagine you will like this movie. The film is mostly an extension of Schumer\u2019s 2019 special \u201cGrowing,\u201d in which she talked about her own pregnancy and her experience with it.\u00a0 In this film we learn that Schumer\u2019s character Lainy has always wanted to be a mom, but she is now forty and her boyfriend is finally ready to propose. But alas he wasn\u2019t proposing marriage, but proposing having sex with another woman. She soon learns that her best friend Kate is pregnant. Worried that Kate is becoming closer friends with their also pregnant co-worker, Lainy tries on a fake pregnancy belly at a maternity store, and when the clerk accidentally sees her wearing it and is very kind, Lainy decides she\u2019ll pretend to be pregnant. She goes to a pregnancy yoga class, and meets Megan who she makes instant friends with. This means Lainy is living a split life, one pregnant and one unpregnant. There is not a lot of territory left to mine in the fake pregnancy category. Between \u201cGlee,\u201d \u201cGone Girl,\u201d \u201cLabor Pains,\u201d \u201cPreggoland,\u201d \u201cDesperate Housewives,\u201d and \u201cBaby Mama\u201d the plot device has gone from comedy to drama to action and back again. In typical Schumer fashion she goes gross-out raunchy, which occasionally lapses into a serious talk about the physical and emotional realities of pregnancy and how society treats them.\u00a0 On that final front, the film does have some interesting observations. The physical realities of pregnancy are weirdly under-discussed, for a society that seems to hold pregnancy as a high honor. But ultimately whatever positive message was there falls apart for two reasons. First the film wants to celebrate family and child birth, but feels the constant need to hedge its endorsement so as not to risk Schumer\u2019s progressive bona fides. And the entire thing is lost in a cavalcade of profanity and gross out jokes about everything from masturbation to farting. I watched \u201cDog Man\u201d a few weeks ago, a movie for 8-year-old boys, and I\u2019m honestly not sure which movie had more juvenile fart jokes.\u00a0 The movie does have a few very funny scenes, but for a Happy Madison production, it\u2019s unusually slow. And the writing doesn\u2019t give us the kind of endlessly quotable lines Happy Madison is usually known for. In terms of the comedy, the movie is less bad and more just forgettable. The movie has a very female sensibility, given its subject matter, but it\u2019s presented with the kind of raunchy comedy that has a smaller female audience. If you love Amy Schumer\u2019s comedy, especially if you\u2019ve loved her more recent materials, and you have recently had a baby and feel like no one else really gets what you\u2019re going through, there is a good chance this movie will be among your favorites. Though I\u2019d still recommend using a service that will clean up the worst excesses of the vulgarity\u2014this is a film that earns its R-rating. But if you aren\u2019t in that small group, I imagine the movie might amuse you, but otherwise it will leave you feeling insipid and put off.\u00a0 One and a half out of five stars. \u201cKinda Pregnant\u201d premiers on Netflix today, February 5, 2025."}