"Bob's Burgers," an animated show finishing its 12th season on Fox, is not really like anything else. It's not irreverent or crass like its older Fox siblings "The Simpsons" or "Family Guy." It's animated plainly and portrays mundane situations — a family running a burger restaurant in a seaside town — that could be easily re-created on a live-action show.
Yet this unassuming show has worked its way toward the top tier of the animated show pantheon in the past decade, and its new feature-length film, "The Bob's Burgers Movie," solidifies it successfully, if a bit routinely. Directors Loren Bouchard and Bernard Derriman have created essentially a long, funny, quality episode of the show.
The plot hardly matters, but here it is: The same week beleaguered Bob Belcher (H. Jon Benjamin, who also voices the titular character in FX's "Archer") and his wife, Linda (John Roberts), owe the bank an overdue loan payment, a sinkhole opens in front of their restaurant, sucking up all their business and revealing a dead body and a mystery that their kids Louise (Kristen Schaal), Gene (Eugene Mirman) and Tina (Dan Mintz) decide to solve to save the restaurant.
