In its middle-of-the-road way, it taps into Schumer's comedy of masochism more successfully than any film since "Trainwreck."

Kinda Pregnant, Amy Schumer's latest riff on the indignities of womanhood, is surprisingly lacking in an actual point of view.

WHAT IT’S ABOUT When single schoolteacher Lainy (Amy Schumer) accompanies her pregnant friend Kate (Jillian Bell) to a maternity-clothing shop, she spots a fake foam belly and gets an idea: Why not try it on and play make believe? Suddenly treated like a queen by the saleslady, Lainy decides to waddle into the street and keep the ruse going.

Amy Schumer and Jillian Bell have put their comedic brains together for Kinda Pregnant. Schumer and Bell play Lainy and Kate, two lifelong friends that dream of raising their own respective families since their childhoods.

In the Netflix movie, Amy Schumer plays a woman who pretends to be pregnant because she’s miserable — kinda like the audience

“Kinda Pregnant,” which debuted Wednesday on Netflix, is a kinda throwback comedy. Like “40-Year-Old Virgin” and “Wedding Crashers,” you can basically get the movie just from its title.

If we bought “Some Like it Hot” and “Mrs. Doubtfire,” I see no reason to quibble with the set-up of “Kinda Pregnant,” a funny and often perceptive satire on

In the years between 2013 and 2016, while Amy Schumer was starring in and co-writing the Comedy Central sketch show Inside Amy Schumer, she seemed like an exciting new presence on the comedy landscape,