Kinda Pregnant is a mostly dull, obtuse, thin, and over-produced comedy about a woman faking pregnancy to get all the perks that come with it. Two best friends—Lainy Newton (Amy Schumer) and Kate (Jillian Bell)—who grew up together on account of their shared dead parents trauma, live their lives in NYC. One day, Kate finds she’s pregnant, obviously telling Lainy. But instead of sharing her friend’s excitement, Lainy is resentful and jealous; she craves to have a family herself, so to be beaten to the punch by her only friend hurts. To solve her anguish she fakes her own pregnancy, experiencing the (very forced) pampering and compliment showers from everyone else that such a task harbors. However, as she becomes friends with very pregnant Megan (Brianne Howey) and infatuated with Megan’s homeless brother Josh (Will Forte), Lainy realizes how in over her head she is—but it’s already too late. Now she must continue lying to her new acquaintances, make new lies for her absence and troubles to her old ones, and figure out how to get what she wants from this self-dooming situation before she loses everyone around her to a plastic baby belly.

Amy Schumer deserves better. With such comedic timing and talent for her own skills in a variety of comedic contexts, she and the chemistry she shares with the cast are about the only components Kinda worth watching here. She’s electric and self-deprecating—her ball pit fall is cackle worthy!—but nothing else holds up. The sets are colorful and filling, but for a movie about a woman feeling both internal pressure for a family after losing hers at such a young age and the external pressures of female maternal expectations, Kinda barely scratches its own premise’s surface. It focuses more on jokes and surface-level storytelling, with characters telling each other constantly what’s going on or how they should feel; “You know how it is being a woman”; “I’ve wanted a family my whole life, because my Mom died when I was young.”

The points about societal norms’ restrictive nature towards women are similarly skipped over, explained away through what could be solid emotional stepping stones that are either simply repeated later or forgotten about. There’s no comedic commentary on how women get isolated, how men and women around them encourage such norms and stereotypes, or anything else. Kinda is simply a zany trip through some very stupid—and entirely avoidable—decisions. Of course there’s fallout. Of course everyone forgives Lainy. Of course she monologues at the other characters about how she learned about her stupidity before asking, “Haven’t you done anything stupid for love?” As soon as the blink-and-you-miss-it flashback of Lainy and Kate as kids literally telling each other “Family is the most important part of our lives! Especially since our Moms are dead,” at 6 years old flashes after film studio logos, you know what’s going on, where things will end and what the filmmakers desperately want you to feel and know. Thus, while Amy Schumer is as magnetic as ever and things look and sound great, Kinda Pregnant isn’t even kinda watchable—it’s a thinly transcribed bore. For Amy Schumer fans and mindless comedy fans, Kinda Pregnant can help waste time in the background, but not much else.

Streaming on Netflix Friday, 2/7