First look at Trainwreck: LeBron James and Amy Schumer shine

On screen we’re presented with a woman who is celebrated for being excessive and free, antagonistic toward the traditional modes of family-making.

“We’re all given this male gaze”.

Schumer explains that about a minute after the message had been sent, Couric and Molner returned to the table and insisted they had to leave for the evening. Amy resists. The movie cooks up a few conflict to divide these lovers for a while, around the two-thirds point, before Amy reckons with her more destructive and immature instincts. WWE wrestler John Cena plays Amy’s boyfriend when the movie begins, a muscle-bound lummox whose devotion to her is both amusing and touching; when she tries to get him to talk dirty during sex, he responds with an earnest sports pep-talk that brings down the house.

‘She left her phone open to texts from [her husband John Molner]. Several women said that they knew women like Amy. Amy always puts Steve in a bad spot, even when he’s on top of her in bed – although he’s best seen there where his museum-quality bulk and curves have a sheen like a Praxiteles statue. Spooning makes her uncomfortable, as she tells newest lay Dr. Aaron Connors (Bill Hader), an National Basteball Association sports doctor who she is writing a profile for a celebrity gossip magazine.

No matter how potty-mouthed or frequently blackout drunk this Amy may be, however, she’s living in a New York-set rom-com, which means that she’s working at a glamorous men’s magazine. Equally entertaining are the host of characters that she’s created: the truly ridiculous and wow-did-he-just-go-there?

It would take a better director than Judd Apatow to do justice to the image of Cena’s sculptured flesh, or certainly a visually attuned humorist like Frank Tashlin who knew his way around pin-ups.

“Trainwreck” is just funnier and more daring when she’s not. She grows, she changes, and she learns a lot about herself in the process.

Schumer’s GQ interview won’t be released until Monday. But hey, she’s a comedian right? We might hope that Apatow and other filmmakers heed this lesson: inserting famous people into comedies, repeating their names ad nauseam, and having them act against type is not intrinsically amusing. Oh yeah, and there is the random black lady (played by “Saturday Night Live” cast member Leslie Jones) on the subway who begins screaming for no reason, other than a screaming black person is apparently amusing.

Trainwreck delivers all the punchy jokes you would expect from Schumer, but the movie’s undercurrent of sincerity and seriousness may catch you off-guard. People want to hear what she has to say, and are invigorated by the way she says it. But what she says in this film is consumed by the structures of commerciality.

To prepare for the comedy, Apatow made Hader and Schumer go on a date while he observed.