The great thing about Fox’s animated TV sitcom Bob’s Burgers is that the appeal is right there in the title: You like burgers? Wonderful. Here’s a show that will give you the same feeling. For those unfamiliar with the pleasures involved, here’s one person’s take: A burger is unassuming and simple, to the point where just about any fast-food place in America will offer one, even if the rest of the menu is focused on something radically different. As with pizza, there are countless ways to prepare a burger, but the basics are the same everywhere — and no matter how many burgers you’ve had, those basics can still be surprising.
The Bob’s Burgers Movie is one such surprise. The feature-length incarnation of the long-running series doesn’t stray very far from the familiar. Just like any given episode of the show — which just wrapped its 12th season with its 238th episode in late May — The Bob’s Burgers Movie follows Bob Belcher (H. Jon Benjamin) and his wife, Linda (John Roberts), proprietors of the titular burger shop, as a new crisis threatens to pull their family business under. Meanwhile, their children, Tina (Dan Mintz), Gene (Eugene Mirman), and Louise (Kristen Schaal), become overly committed to proving something to themselves and others, which leads them on a nonsensical adventure that eventually, maybe, will also help their parents.
This is how most episodes of Bob’s Burgers can be summed up, and the movie is no exception. This time, the problem threatening the burger shop is a massive sinkhole right at its front door, keeping the Belchers from doing business during an annual festival that’s vital to keeping them afloat. Meanwhile, the Belcher children are about to end the school year, and each wants to make their
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