内容摘要：Afeli Bernice Adzo stands at the entrance of the remains of her father’s 10-unit family home in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Afeli Bernice Adzo stands at the entrance of the remains of her father’s 10-unit family home in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

The movie’s opening flashes back to Lainy (Schumer) as a child playing with dolls and imagining herself a mother-to-be. So committed is she to the role that Lainy, in mock-labor, screams at her friend and then politely apologies: “Sorry, but the expectant mother often lashes out at her support system.”But as middle age approaches, Lainy, a high school teacher in Brooklyn, isn’t close to her dream. At the dinner where she suspects — no, is so certain that she tears open the dessert looking for a ring — that her longtime boyfriend (Damon Wayans Jr.) is going to pop the question, he instead asks her to join a threesome. Back at school, Lainy’s school lesson on “Romeo and Juliet” turns darkly cynical.

Things are even worse when Lainy’s married best friend (Jillian Bell) divulges that she’s pregnant. “Get rid of it!” blurts Lainy before apologizing. When the pair later go clothes shopping, Lainy absentmindedly tries on belly padding. The saleswoman is instantly nice to her, offering a burrito and a foot rub. “Who’s the father?” she asks. “Doordash,” responds Lainy before adding, “driver.”Much of the fun in “Kinda Pregnant” is watching Lainy come up with increasingly ridiculous lies as she tries to pull off the pregnant act. (After accidentally picking Thanksgiving as her time of inception, Lainy digs a deeper hole by suggesting it happened at “a Black Friday Eve sale.”)But the ruse becomes more difficult when she, during a pregnant workout class, meets a woman (Brianne Howey, refreshingly authentic) she genuinely likes and wants to be friends with. Even more complicated: Lainy starts falling for another guy she first meets at a coffee shop (

In a movie filled with funny people (others include Urzila Carlson as a guidance counselor, and Alex Moffat as a idiotic father-to-be), Forte is an especially good presence in “Kinda Pregnant.” For a performer of such madcap absurdity, Forte fits in remarkably naturally in a more rom-com setting. He’s also got a wonderfully ridiculous occupation, even by rom-com standards, driving a Zamboni in Central Park.You can probably guess how “Kinda Pregnant” goes from here. Director Tyler Spindel, nephew to

(a producer on the film), doesn’t do anything to advance the movie comedy, a languishing proposition in recent years with

. But he crucially gives his performers plenty of space to be themselves, and Lainy’s desperate desire to have a family comes across as both over-the-top and genuine. If “Knocked Up” captured the comedy of getting unexpectedly pregnant, “Kinda Pregnant” embodies the pain of wishing you were.In this photo provided by Ukraine’s 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade press service, a man waits to hear about his missing wife as rescuers clear the rubble of a multi-storey residential building destroyed a day before by a Russian airstrike, in Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, on Thursday, May 8, 2025. (Iryna Rybakova/Ukraine’s 93rd Mechanized Brigade via AP)

In this photo provided by Ukraine’s 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade press service, a man waits to hear about his missing wife as rescuers clear the rubble of a multi-storey residential building destroyed a day before by a Russian airstrike, in Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, on Thursday, May 8, 2025. (Iryna Rybakova/Ukraine’s 93rd Mechanized Brigade via AP)Meanwhile at the Kremlin, Putin held talks with

, whom the Russian leader earlier described as Moscow’s “main guest” at Friday’s Victory Day festivities. In the evening, Putin hosted Xi andfor a gala dinner in an apparent effort to showcase Russia’s global clout.