Most of the biggest laughs in Kinda Pregnant—the new Amy Schumer Netflix movie that began streaming today—are delivered courtesy not of Schumer, but of Urzila Carlson, a New Zealand comic who’s never been in a movie before. But though not yet well-known in the U.S., we have a feeling you’ll be seeing a lot more of Carlson on screen moving forward. She’s too funny not to be in movies.
Directed by Tyler Spindel, with a screenplay written by Julia Paiva and Schumer, Kinda Pregnant stars Schumer as 40-year-old school teacher named Lainy, who’s always dreamed of having a family. But when it turns out her serious boyfriend wants to propose a threesome, rather than propose a marriage, she worries it will never happen. Then her BFF Kate (Jillian Bell) reveals that she’s pregnant. Lainy spirals. A misunderstanding involving a fake belly leads to Lainy pretending that she’s pregnant, too, kicking
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