2025   Netflix

Rated:  R

Length:  1 hr  40min

Comedy

Directed by:  Tyler Spindel

Starring:  Amy Schumer, Urzila Carlson, Jillian Bell, Brianne Howey, and Will Forte.

“Lying Like A Mother!”

This is Netflix’s description of the movie:

A fake baby bump spawns chaos in this rollicking comedy about a Brooklyn teacher trapped in a pregnancy lie after finding love.

Romantic Comedy Movie, Comedy Movie, Romantic Comedy

Amy Schumer plays a 40 something teacher named Lainey with a boyfriend. When her lifelong married BFF gets pregnant, she is a little jealous because Amy thought she would be the first to get married and have kids. When she accompanies her BFF to a maternity store she sees a fake baby bump and goes into the dressing room to try it out. Deciding she is going to play the part of being pregnant for awhile, she buys the baby bump. Which obviously leads to getting caught in a pregnant lie as she can’t keep the truth from eventually spilling out.

Kinda like dropping a deep fried turkey out between your legs when people are staring at you thinking you are pregnant. Literally, that is how we find out in the movie. Kid you not. The first half of the movie is the same dumb pregnant humor, then it gets serious. Amy Schumer looks into Will Forte’s eyes and recites a poem, The Kiss by Anne Sexton:

 My nerves are turned on. I hear them like musical instruments. Where there was silence the drums, the strings are incurably playing. You did this. Pure genius at work. Darling, the composer has stepped into fire.

Then Will kisses Amy. It felt like it was supposed to be a serious dramatic romantic moment, but it was a little confusing as up to that point, everything had been dumb comedy. Almost like slapstick from the very beginning and then…..BAM it’s a romance….Not. From then on it seems to center on Will and Amy becoming romantically involved very quickly, never mind that she’s pregnant. While she is doing her best to hide the truth about not being pregnant. It seemed like after the truth, I mean Turkey is dropped, it became very serious. Like now it’s not a comedy, it’s a romantic drama.

It was just ok. Not the rollicking comedy I was expecting, especially given Amy Schumer and Will Forte of SNL fame. I personally think that the star of the movie was Urzila Carlson. She is a comic from New Zealand who has become very popular in New Zealand and Australia. I thought she was the best part of the whole movie. Hilarious! She should have got top billing for that performance, way funnier than Amy. I can’t wait to see more of Urzila Carlson.

Should you watch it? I can’t really recommend it. It just wasn’t that good.