The Bob's Burgers Movie (PG-13)
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This movie is based on the TV series Bob's Burgers. It starts out six years ago, with someone being murdered. In the present, Bob and Linda are given a week to make a payment on a business loan, otherwise their cooking equipment will be repossessed. To make matters worse, a sinkhole appears right in front of the restaurant, so no customers can come in. (They try to redirect people to enter through the alley, to no avail.) Then Louise discovers a skeleton (the murder victim from six years ago) in the sinkhole. The Belchers' landlord, Calvin Fischoeder, is arrested for the murder, but Louise believes he's innocent, and sets out to solve the crime, with Tina and Gene's help. Meanwhile, the kids each have their own issues going on. Louise is upset about another kid calling her a baby, and is considering no longer wearing her bunny ears hat. Tina is nervous about wanting to ask Jimmy Jr. to be her summer boyfriend. And Gene has just made a new instrument out of a few items from the restaurant, and wants his band to play at a concert on the Wonder Wharf, which is celebrating its 80th anniversary. Also, Teddy constructs a mobile burger cart for Bob and Linda to sell burgers on the Wharf (over Bob's objection that they don't have a street vendor's license).

That's all I want to reveal of the plot, though I will say there's a brief post-credits scene. The movie is reasonably amusing, and has both a genuine feeling of anxiety regarding the future of the restaurant and some truly harrowing elements related to the murder mystery. But of course there's a happy ending, with all the various plot threads tied up neatly. Plus there are a few fun songs, and good characterizations. (I don't quite want to say character development, except maybe for Louise, though I'm not sure if even that will carry over to the next season of the show. For the most part nothing really changes, but the characters are all good at, you know, being themselves.) I guess I don't know what else to say. But it's definitely a fun movie.