BY CHRISTOPHER STAMM
GUEST MOVIE REVIEWER
The Bob’s Burgers Movie (Now showing in theatres)
This film is rated PG-13 – for language and off-color humor
Hi everyone. This week I fully intended to review Top Gun: Maverick, but let’s be real: You are going to see it, I went to see it. Everyone is going to go see it. So why bother reviewing that one, right?
So instead I wandered off into the theatre to see something different. Hence this review of The Bob’s Burgers Movie.
Honestly, I would have never gone to see this if my dear wife, Mary, was not off in the Upper Peninsula doing her best to find every winery located in that region and taste everything. So being home alone and tired of looking at my cats, I decided to play movie roulette. The rules are simple: go to the cinema, and whatever is playing closest to your arrival time, that is what you buy a ticket and go see.
I have played this game off and on for years. I have seen some real stinkers and have seen some great films I otherwise would not have seen. It’s all about luck.
This week was a lucky one. The Bob’s Burgers Movie is funny – very funny.
Based on the Fox television show of which I can say I have never seen a single episode, The Bob’s Burgers Movie is very accessible to those of us that have never watched the TV show.
Basic plot is this: Middle class family of five owns a burger joint, said joint is barely making it, giant sinkhole opens up in front of shop and nobody can access the restaurant. Bob has bank loans due, and to make matters worse, a skeleton is found in the sinkhole, all but guaranteeing that it will be weeks before the sinkhole is fixed and people can get into the burger joint.
Bob’s three kids decide to solve the mystery, to save the shop, while Mom and Dad and supporting patrons try to come up with a plan to sell the burgers from a cart, and hijinks ensue.
And did I mention it’s a musical? No? Well, it is, and even though the songs are not slick polished auto tuned pictures of perfection (some of the people singing may very well be tone-deaf), the songs are actually pretty good and act as a driver for the story.
The Bob’s Burgers Movie is a great way to kill 1 hour and 42 minutes, and some of the jokes are aimed at the adults in the room and land perfectly. I laughed out loud along with the other patrons in the theatre multiple times.
Now playing in theatres, The Bob’s Burgers Movie gets a solid three out of five stars because it’s just simple as this: it’s funny.