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Loren Bouchard’s Bob’s Burgers is one of the best and most popular animated sitcoms currently on TV, and so it came as little surprise when The Bob’s Burgers Movie came along in 2022. The animated musical comedy film, created by Bouchard, centers around the beloved Belcher family as they work together to solve a murder mystery and save their beloved burger joint when a massive sinkhole opens in front of the restaurant. The movie hasn’t always been easy to revisit on streaming, and its availability is once again set to fluctuate after The Bob’s Burgers Movie landed on Tubi’s “leaving soon” list.
The Bob’s Burgers Movie Is a 10/10 Expansion of the Show
An animated show getting a movie is a significant hallmark of a successful, long-running series, and The Bob’s Burgers Movie didn’t blunder the premise. The movie’s 89% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes (paired with a “Certified Fresh” 87% critic score) rivaled the main series’ average 86% Popcornmeter score, and it’s easy to see why. The movie feels like a long episode of the show and a love letter to its fans that successfully scales up Bob’s Burgers’ heartfelt humor and character-driven focus while also raising the emotional and physical stakes beyond what a standard episode can afford. There are plenty of great callbacks to the main show, even more surprising emotional moments, and of course, the exact type of humor you’d expect from the Belchers, and the musical numbers are pretty great (be prepared for “Sunny Side Up Summer” to be stuck in your head on repeat).
