What do you get when you combine a movie company known for crass humor with a vulgar, abortion-loving actress? You get a vulgar, crass, abortion-loving production, as is the case with Netflix’s “comedy” "Kinda Pregnant."
Adam Sandler’s company Happy Madison Productions made the movie under the direction of Sandler’s nephew Tyler Spindel. Actress Amy Schumer, who also stars as the main character Lainy, served as a writer.
Lainy has always dreamt of being a mom since childhood. But after her long-term boyfriend proposes a threesome with a woman named Moira (Hayley Griffith) instead of proposing marriage as Lainy expected, her life starts spiraling downward, culminating with her faking a pregnancy for attention and compliments.
Of course, silly humor has its place, as well as its fans. But this movie was a huge flop with horrible reviews across the board, even among those who enjoy crass humor. The jokes are cringeworthy and awkward at best, and they leave viewers wondering whether they’re supposed to laugh or not.
The first abortion reference appears when Lainy finds out, fresh from her breakup, that her best friend Kate (Jillian Bell) is expecting a child:
At least they called her child a baby, though, right? Not so fast. Lainy and Kate are teachers and as they walk to their classes, the school’s guidance counselor, Fallon (Urzila Carlson), joins them and comes up with the vilest term ever used to describe a living, growing, preborn baby:
Shirley (Lizze Broadway) the “tarantula” is already a mother. You’re a mother the moment your child is conceived. Even if you have an abortion, it doesn’t change this basic fact.
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After Lainy tries on a fake baby bump in a dressing room, a store attendant begins showering her with attention believing she’s pregnant. Not wanting the attention to end, Lainy continues to wear the fake bump except when she’s around her friends and colleagues.
In one scene, she wears the bump on the subway which leads to one of the movie’s many weird, inappropriate jokes:
Months later, Lainy encounters the mother/daughter pair again and sees the teen is pregnant. Because teen pregnancy is always such a great topic for laughs. /sarcasm
It’s also evidence of the movie’s inability to depict a clear timeline. The only reason we know it’s been months is because the teen’s baby bump is so large.
Abortion rears its ugly head again as Shirley overhears a conversation that makes her think Lainy is pregnant and is planning to abort her baby as Lainy’s two worlds begin to collide. The writers just had to glorify the murder of innocent lives in such a glib, casual way:
Aside from abortion, the movie still had so many cringeworthy scenes and awful dialogue it makes you wonder how anyone thought any of it was a good idea.
After her breakup, Lainy is so depressed she can’t bring herself to teach her class of what appears to be middle school students. (Note the pride flag front and center in the room.)
What transpires is a prime example of the unfunny, inappropriate, and cringe-inducing “humor” that permeates most of the movie that most people found unamusing, “desperate,” and “wrong”:
Yeah, we're not laughing either.
No amount of pro-abortion propaganda could save a movie this horrendous. You know a production is a huge failure when even the abortion-loving liberal outlets are tearing it to pieces. In our divisive political climate, this is apparently one thing liberals and conservatives can wholeheartedly agree on- this movie is “Netflix sewage.”
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