Kinda Pregnant parents guide

Kinda Pregnant Parent Guide

The tedious, unoriginal plot is overwhelmed by a tsunami of negative content, including profanity and excessive on screen sexual activity.

Overall D

Netflix: Jealous of her best friend’s pregnancy, a woman starts wearing a fake baby bump and accidentally meets the man of her dreams.

Release date February 5, 2025

Violence C+
Sexual Content D
Profanity D
Substance Use D

Why is Kinda Pregnant rated R? The MPAA rated Kinda Pregnant R for sexual content, language throughout and drug use.

Run Time: 97 minutes

Parent Movie Review

“Did you ever tell such a big lie you don’t know how to get out of it?” So asks Lainy (Amy Schumer), who has backed herself into a corner by telling a massive whopper.

When her lifelong best friend, Kate (Jillian Bell) announces her pregnancy, Lainy is consumed with envy. Motherhood has always been her dream, and with her most recent relationship down in flames, she doesn’t see any chance of building the family she so desperately wants. But she soon discovers that if she straps an “empathy bump” around her abdomen, she can look pregnant.

It turns out that looking pregnant is almost as good as being pregnant: people are extra polite, she gets seats on the subway, and she can even feel a sense of camaraderie at a prenatal yoga class. There she meets Megan (Brianne Howey) and the two strike up a friendship, which also extends to Megan’s charming brother, Josh (Will Forte). Now Lainy is living two lives: her normal, non-pregnant existence as a schoolteacher and friend to Kate, and her pregnant life as pals with Megan and romantic interest for Josh. Is there any way she can get out of the mess she has created before her deception is exposed?

Let me cut to the chase: Kinda Pregnant isn’t just bad, it’s cringily, painfully, agonizingly terrible. I bitterly resent the 97 minutes of my life that I spent watching this tedious pile of clichés and flat jokes and will do my best to scrub it from my brain as quickly as possible.

The movie’s biggest flaw is its script, which carefully eliminates any possible tension, uncertainty, or originality. We’ve all seen these “caught in a lie” movies (heck, we saw this plot on TV when we were kids), and we know exactly how the story is going to play out. There are no surprises here. None.

Actually, the only surprise I found in the script was its excessive levels of negative content. This movie’s Restricted rating is fully deserved and be warned, this is not a lighthearted romance geared at a mass audience. It’s chock full of profanity, with almost one cuss word per minute (including at least 42 sexual expletives) and a mindboggling number of crude terms for male and female genitals, pubic hair, female breasts, and semen. Sexual conversations abound, with frequent discussions of “threesomes”, including a particularly inappropriate one between a teacher and her class of young teenagers. There’s also an extended sex scene (fortunately without explicit nudity) that involves a blindfolded man trying to have oral sex with a woman before the two settle for penetrative sex, in an extended, detailed scene that also involves an open door and neighborhood witnesses. Throw in drug use by main characters, including a guidance counselor who vapes marijuana at school, and this movie’s negative content is clearly out of bounds for a supposedly mainstream film.

The worst part of being a movie critic is watching movies like this. They are painful, frustrating, and maddening. But the best part is being able to warn our readers away from these films. Seriously, Kinda Pregnant isn’t just kinda bad; it’s totally terrible and I hope you won’t waste any minutes of your precious life on it. I had no choice, but you do.

Directed by Tyler Spindel. Starring Amy Schumer, Will Forte, Jillian Bell. Running time: 97 minutes. Theatrical release February 5, 2025. Updated

Kinda Pregnant
Rating & Content Info

Why is Kinda Pregnant rated R? Kinda Pregnant is rated R by the MPAA for sexual content, language throughout and drug use.

Violence: A teacher yells at students in an abusive manner. A teacher sets fire to textbooks in a garbage can. A woman tells her friend to get rid of a pregnancy. A child knifes an apparently pregnant woman in the abdomen and later makes stabbing motions. A woman’s artificial pregnancy bump catches fire but there are no injuries. A person threatens to bite someone else.
Sexual Content:   A child pretends that her doll is in labor and acts it out in some detail. There are several conversations about promiscuous sex. There are several discussions of a “threesome”, including one between a schoolteacher and her young teenage students. A man and woman kiss on a few occasions. A woman has sex with a man who is blindfolded (at her request): she tries to position herself over his head for oral sex before straddling him for penetrative sex. There is no explicit nudity because the woman is wearing a long shirt, but the scene is extended and involves plenty of detail – and the amorous couple accidentally open a door, giving neighbors a view of their activities. A woman wears a dress with extensive exposed cleavage. A woman tells her friend to get rid of her pregnancy. Pregnant women complain about breast dryness in pregnancy. There are several mentions of masturbation, one involving an animal.
Profanity: There are over 80 profanities in the script, including at least 42 sexual expletives, and over a dozen scatological curses and terms of deity. There are a handful of minor profanities. A person makes a sexual hand gesture. The script includes an astounding number of crude terms for male and female genitals, pubic hair, women’s breasts, and semen. There are frequent sexual conversations.
Alcohol / Drug Use:   A guidance counselor vapes marijuana at school. A student finds drugs and turns them into the teacher, who later implies that she will use them. A non-drinker gets upset and chugs liquor from the bottle.

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