{"id":53527,"date":"2022-06-06T16:26:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T20:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=53527"},"modified":"2022-06-06T16:26:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T20:26:45","slug":"the-bobs-burgers-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/06\/the-bobs-burgers-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bob\u2019s Burgers Movie- Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Bob Garver<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Since premiering in 2011, \u201cBob\u2019s Burgers\u201d has very quietly become an invaluable part of Fox\u2019s Sunday night animation lineup. In fact, it has become the best part. By which I mean that current-era \u201cBob\u2019s Burgers\u201d is better than current-era \u201cFamily Guy\u201d or \u201cThe Simpsons,\u201d though 90\u2019s \u201cSimpsons\u201d is something of an all-time champion. Now struggling restaurant owner Bob Belcher and his family have made the jump to the big screen, and the result is predictably funny and enjoyable.<\/p>\n\n\n

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            Bob (H. Jon Benjamin) and his wife Linda (John Roberts) are hoping to get an extension on a bank loan so they can keep their restaurant open for its best summer ever. The extension is curtly denied, and the family has just a week to make payment or they\u2019ll be shut down. Bob will have to sell a lot of burgers to make the payment, but the start of summer means the start of tourist season, so they might just pull it off. But then a huge sinkhole opens up in front of the restaurant, blocking its entrance, which means the family can sell zero burgers. Bob\u2019s friend Larry (Larry Murphy) tries to set them up with a cart so they can sell burgers at the nearby boardwalk, but they don\u2019t have a vendor\u2019s license the local carnies aren\u2019t exactly welcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Bob\u2019s kids have their own plans for the start of summer. Teenage daughter Tina (Dan Mintz) wants to work up the courage to kiss a boy. Son Gene (Eugene Mirman) wants his band (with a pun name worthy of the series\u2019 reputation for awesome pun names) to play in a nearby amphitheater. Youngest daughter Louise (Kristen Schaal) wants to prove she\u2019s not a baby after another girl points out that she\u2019s afraid to be separated from her trademark bunny ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Louise decides that the key to proving her bravery is to explore the sinkhole, which results in the discovery of a dead body. Louise freaks out and is humiliated, the sinkhole can\u2019t be filled in because it\u2019s now a crime scene, and the family\u2019s landlord Calvin Fishoeder (Kevin Kline) is arrested for murder. The kids undertake the task of proving Mr. Fishoeder\u2019s innocence, since his incarceration will mean the end of the restaurant regardless of the situation with the bank. They suspect Mr. Fishoeder\u2019s no-good brother Felix (Zach Galifianakis) of being the real murderer, though I had my sights on the brothers\u2019 cousin Grover (David Wain), simply because I thought he was a character exclusive to the movie (I was wrong, he has in fact been in two episodes of the show).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The way to tell the movie apart from the show is its length (of course), some more ambitious animation during driving sequences, and more elaborate musical numbers. The show is known for containing either original or parody songs in almost every episode, but they\u2019ve never been belted out quite like they are here. It turns out that Roberts in particular has a surprisingly lovely singing voice. I found myself wondering if the opening number could somehow be dragged out for the whole movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The murder mystery stuff isn\u2019t all that enthralling in \u201cThe Bob\u2019s Burgers Movie,\u201d which is a shame because it dominates the last act and the movie takes itself too seriously for a bit. But you\u2019ll get plenty of what you came for here, with creative wordplay and clever asides around almost every turn. I understand why \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d has made more money than \u201cThe Bob\u2019s Burgers Movie,\u201d but the latter had a much more responsive audience at the screening I attended, even if there were fewer people. This was the most fun I\u2019d had at the movies\u2026 maybe all year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grade: B<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Bob\u2019s Burgers Movie\u201d is rated PG-13 for rude\/suggestive material and language. Its running time is 102 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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