A new rom-com has soared to the top spot of the global charts on Netflix, despite being torn apart by savage reviews.
Kinda Pregnant was released on the streaming platform just in time for Valentine’s Day, with Amy Schumer leading the way as Lainy, a woman who decides to pretend she’s pregnant when her plans to settle down and start a family fall apart.
However, shortly after whacking on the fake bump and lying to everyone around her, she ends up meeting her dream guy.
Unfortunately, it didn’t quite land with critics, with many branding it the ‘worst film’ they’ve ever watched.
While the movie has received brutal reviews, viewers have clearly been watching Amy and co in their droves, as it has topped the Netflix charts for the last week.
In fact, Kinda Pregnant raked in a whopping 25,100,000 views in seven days, with more than 41,900,000 hours watched in total.
The film beat out stiff competition from Back in Action, the Menu, the Shrek franchise and Spider-Man to nab the top spot.
Kinda Pregnant was dismally reviewed with a 23% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, compared to a slightly better critics ranking of 28%.
One audience reviewer on the film reviewing site, Whitney C, even commented the film was ‘worse than childbirth’.
Unpacking the film on Twitter, FelicityRepudia declared: ‘Kinda pregnant is the worst film I’ve ever watched in my entire life.’
‘#kindapregnant is a kinda disappointing Netflix film, because of unfunny dialogues and characterization. Amy Schumer’s presence is kinda failing, I guess. This movie is not a good start this month of love,’ said mar_arancon.
‘I don’t think you need me to tell you that Kinda Pregnant is terrible. It’s the same old Amy Schumer shtick, an unfunny movie that goes about how you would expect. The acting is fine enough from the supporting cast, but that’s nowhere near enough to save this movie,’ added JeromeM94Movies.
Other critics suggested that the film was out-of-touch and didn’t sensitively handle the topic.
‘Insensitively handling its material and absolutely wasting its ensemble, #KindaPregnant is kinda the worst film of 2025 thus far,’ said ratedPDG.
It’s not all doom and gloom, as some viewers and critics found the film light and enjoyable.
‘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 motherhood, both real and pretend,’ said Jake Coyle for Associated Press.
Kinda Pregnant is the fourth film Schumer has led. She starred in the film Trainwreck in 2015 which earned an 84% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
She then went on to star in Snatched in 2017 with Goldie Hawn which earned 36% and I Feel Pretty in 2018, which earned just 35%.
In 2024 the star revealed that her ‘puffy face’ was due to her diagnosis with Cushing’s syndrome. She pointed out while on Jessica Yellin’s News Not Noise Substack that her diagnosis was ‘a good example of the fact that we never know what is going on with someone.’
She suggested that perhaps everyone could ‘be a little kinder to each other and ourselves’.
Kinda Pregnant is available to watch on Netflix.
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