Fans of “Bob’s Burgers” will find a lot to savor in the long-awaited big-screen adaptation of the Fox comedy about the oddball Belcher family.
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And Louise (Kristen Schaal) is trying to prove to her classmates (and herself) that despite her hot pink bunny-eared hat, she is NOT a baby.
Their parents, meanwhile, have more dire concerns: The bank is threatening to repossess their kitchen equipment if they don’t pay back a loan. Bob’s (H. Jon Benjamin) bribery burger (which he made special for the bank employee with an extra egg and everything) doesn’t work. And he and his wife Linda (John Roberts) have to scramble to make a payment in two weeks.
Their cartoonishly wealthy and eccentric landlord Calvin Fischoeder (an ever delightful Kevin Kline) says he might consider waiving rent for a month as he speeds away on a golf cart chugging champagne with celebrity-news” target=”_blank”>his brother Felix (Zach Galifianakis)<
Naturally, the finances of the burger joint are not among the kids’ highest priorities, especially when the remains of a long dead body turn up, and they decide to skip school and help solve the murder of the boardwalk employee Cotton Candy Dan. They’re related, but we won’t spoil how.
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There are even genres sprinkled in. The songs are a study of contradictions: Somehow atonal, catchy, charming and awkward all at once. It’s a pretty impressive feat. And yet they are so few and far between that it does feel like a bit of a stretch to be marketing this as a musical.
Eleven seasons in, the characters may not be ubiquitous enough to recruit any newcomers to start with the movie. genres were arguably more widely known when their movies came out. But “The Bob’s Burgers Movie” is not impenetrable for a novice either. Like that no-frills burger joint with only one customer at the bar, it may even be worth the risk.
“The Bob’s Burgers Movie,” a 20th Century Studios release in theaters Friday, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for “language and rude/suggestive material.” Running time: 102 minutes. Three stars out of four.
