The Bob’s Burgers Movie
Year: 2022
Rating: PG-13
Length: 102 minutes / 1.70 hours
Let a television show get popular enough, and eventually, you’ll see a movie get made of it. This is true for older shows like Get Smart (2008) as well as modern shows like Bob’s Burgers. It seems that animated shows have finally “made it” when they get their first animated movie. South Park, The Simpsons, and SpongeBob SquarePants are among the ranks of well-known animated sitcoms that made the leap to the big screen. Now Bob’s Burgers joins their ranks with The Bob’s Burgers Movie (2022).
The challenge for a 30-minute animated show expanding to a feature-length movie has always been the strength of its intertwining plotlines. For this movie, introducing an enormous sinkhole that’s blocking the entrance to the restaurant ups the scale of normal shenanigans, especially on the first day of summer when people are ready to go out to eat. Add to this a murder mystery that the Belcher kids are trying to solve and you’ve got a solid plot on your hands. And since this is Bob’s Burgers, there are a few more songs than in a normal episode, making this a pseudo-musical as well.
Visually, the movie version of this show looks crisp and clean, with shadows adding depth to the normally flat Sunday evening show. The few set pieces are exciting and well-placed to keep things interesting—to the point where I wondered how the Belchers were going to get out of their predicament. Adding in some lore to the Bob’s Burgers canon in this film also made this an enjoyable watch, as it helped develop the characters we’ve known for over a decade. Overall, fans of the show will enjoy the movie, even if it’s cinematic comfort food.
A successful jump to the big screen for Bob’s Burgers, I give The Bob’s Burgers Movie 4.0 stars out of 5.
