We like Amy Schumer and didn't hate this mostly slapstick movie about a single 30-something New York woman who pretends to be pregnant to get positive attention, and then hijinks ensue. Jillian Bell, Will Forte, Chris Geere, and Damon Wayans Jr., are among the large cast, with cameos by Adam Sandler's wife Jackie as the yoga teacher, his daughter Sunny Sandler as the teenager on the subway (Adam Sandler is one of the producers), Laura Benanti as the teenager's mother, and Schumer's father, wheelchair-bound Gordon Schumer, as the guy in the wheelchair who shouts, "Mazel!" on the street.
Tyler Spindel directs from a script by Schumer and Julie Paiva. There are serious pacing issues but we laughed from time to time.
Rupert Gregson-Williams is credited as composer and I found this nice suite of music from the movie on YouTube, but what I remember are the songs.
Schumer was last blogged for acting in Unfrosted and for writing (and acting) in Trainwreck, Bell for Sword of Trust, Forte for Good Boys, Geere for You're the Worst, which was a TV series, Wayans for The Other Guys, Jackie and Sunny Sandler for You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, Benanti for No Hard Feelings, and Gregson-Williams for Wonder Woman.
Spindel, Sandler's nephew, has directed four other features and this is Paiva's feature debut after co-writing one short.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics and audiences are kinda not fans with averages of 29 and 27%. We watched it on Netflix on March 1.
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