The Bob's Burgers Movie

[terry78]

Disney Serves ‘Bob’s Burgers’ the Movie an Official 2020 Release Date

Didn't even know this was coming out next year.

 

[terry78]

Bob's Burgers Movie Is Still Happening, Disney Puts It Back on Release Schedule

 

[DarkKnight88]

Cool, Disney must be confident in it by not simply dumping it on Disney+.

 

[Lasirius]

One of my favorite shows, I'm excited it's not gonna be on Disney +

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[DarkShadow10]

 

[MOVIELORD101]

I have to be honest: as someone who's a fan of Bob's Burgers, does anyone else think the marketing for the movie is atrocious? I know Disney inherited this from Fox's slate from before the merger happened (this was in production for 5 years, well before then), but it's clear they're not really clarifying the nature of the show and movie well. Plus, they're hiding the fact the movie's a musical! A lot of the jokes in the trailers that are carried over from the show (Tina's awkwardness and occasional thing for butts, Gene's random weird comments and thing for music, and Linda's whimsical nature) are taken out of context and it doesn't help people who haven't seen the show at all.

Bob's Burgers is a fun show, don't get me wrong, but they're treating it as though everyone should know what this show is casually, like The Simpsons Movie's trailers did. But here's the problem: this ISN'T The Simpsons! It has its fans but it's not as big as that or South Park! Not only that, but the trailers speak VERY little of the plot (the family's restaurant is blocked by a massive hole in the street and the kids investigate and I guess figure out there's criminal negligence or something tied back to that, we'll see), just like The Simpsons Movie. Beginning to see the pattern?

On top of all this, it's out Memorial Day weekend....against TOP GUN MAVERICK. Which people have been waiting 2 extra years for and is getting RAVE early word of mouth. Yeah, this movie is screwed. Plus, Disney NOTORIOUSLY has had terrible luck on Memorial Day releases since 2015. Tomorrowland, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Pirates 5, Solo, Artemis Fowl (before it got moved to Disney+ instead). The only exception is the Aladdin remake and probably the Little Mermaid remake next year!

I appreciate Disney wanting to give Bob's Burgers a chance like this instead of just shunting it to Hulu (Though I think it would've done better there), but it feels like they're doing it just for the sake of having a Fox movie in theaters for the summer.

What do you guys think?

 

[Erik20]

I have to be honest: as someone who's a fan of Bob's Burgers, does anyone else think the marketing for the movie is atrocious? I know Disney inherited this from Fox's slate from before the merger happened (this was in production for 5 years, well before then), but it's clear they're not really clarifying the nature of the show and movie well. Plus, they're hiding the fact the movie's a musical! A lot of the jokes in the trailers that are carried over from the show (Tina's awkwardness and occasional thing for butts, Gene's random weird comments and thing for music, and Linda's whimsical nature) are taken out of context and it doesn't help people who haven't seen the show at all.

Bob's Burgers is a fun show, don't get me wrong, but they're treating it as though everyone should know what this show is casually, like The Simpsons Movie's trailers did. But here's the problem: this ISN'T The Simpsons! It has its fans but it's not as big as that or South Park! Not only that, but the trailers speak VERY little of the plot (the family's restaurant is blocked by a massive hole in the street and the kids investigate and I guess figure out there's criminal negligence or something tied back to that, we'll see), just like The Simpsons Movie. Beginning to see the pattern?

On top of all this, it's out Memorial Day weekend....against TOP GUN MAVERICK. Which people have been waiting 2 extra years for and is getting RAVE early word of mouth. Yeah, this movie is screwed. Plus, Disney NOTORIOUSLY has had terrible luck on Memorial Day releases since 2015. Tomorrowland, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Pirates 5, Solo, Artemis Fowl (before it got moved to Disney+ instead). The only exception is the Aladdin remake and probably the Little Mermaid remake next year!

I appreciate Disney wanting to give Bob's Burgers a chance like this instead of just shunting it to Hulu (Though I think it would've done better there), but it feels like they're doing it just for the sake of having a Fox movie in theaters for the summer.

What do you guys think?

The only reason why I even know the movie exists is this thread... so yeah, terrible marketing.

 

[CaptainWagner]

I have to be honest: as someone who's a fan of Bob's Burgers, does anyone else think the marketing for the movie is atrocious? I know Disney inherited this from Fox's slate from before the merger happened (this was in production for 5 years, well before then), but it's clear they're not really clarifying the nature of the show and movie well. Plus, they're hiding the fact the movie's a musical! A lot of the jokes in the trailers that are carried over from the show (Tina's awkwardness and occasional thing for butts, Gene's random weird comments and thing for music, and Linda's whimsical nature) are taken out of context and it doesn't help people who haven't seen the show at all.

Bob's Burgers is a fun show, don't get me wrong, but they're treating it as though everyone should know what this show is casually, like The Simpsons Movie's trailers did. But here's the problem: this ISN'T The Simpsons! It has its fans but it's not as big as that or South Park! Not only that, but the trailers speak VERY little of the plot (the family's restaurant is blocked by a massive hole in the street and the kids investigate and I guess figure out there's criminal negligence or something tied back to that, we'll see), just like The Simpsons Movie. Beginning to see the pattern?

On top of all this, it's out Memorial Day weekend....against TOP GUN MAVERICK. Which people have been waiting 2 extra years for and is getting RAVE early word of mouth. Yeah, this movie is screwed. Plus, Disney NOTORIOUSLY has had terrible luck on Memorial Day releases since 2015. Tomorrowland, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Pirates 5, Solo, Artemis Fowl (before it got moved to Disney+ instead). The only exception is the Aladdin remake and probably the Little Mermaid remake next year!

I appreciate Disney wanting to give Bob's Burgers a chance like this instead of just shunting it to Hulu (Though I think it would've done better there), but it feels like they're doing it just for the sake of having a Fox movie in theaters for the summer.

What do you guys think?

Disney has made it pretty aggressively clear they don't give a **** about the Fox movies they acquired and are just dumping them off with zero support or fanfare. But hey, at least we got the X-Men in the MCU

 

[MadVillainy]

Saw this yesterday. Big fan of the show. I thought the movie was ok.
No real huge complaints. I thought it was about the same quality as a decent episode of the show.

I will say this as far as criticism goes:
-I didn't the songs were that good. Especially compared to the show
-Honestly this kinda felt like a low key remake of that one season finale "How Bob Saves/Destroys the Town" The movie is, at least at its bones, very similar plot wise.

I wish they kinda did more with the fact that it was a movie. And this is the problem with most shows that have theatrical movies. Yeah the animation was better but it really didn't do much with the fact that it was a movie. Comparing it to The Simpsons Movie or even The Rugrats Movie from when I was a kid, the Bobs Burgers Movie plot felt a bit derivative and small.

Again it's not bad at all. I'll pick up the Blu Ray but I wish it was more. I remember some of the people working on the movie defended not moving it to Hulu by saying "You can watch Bob's Burgers any day on TV. You can't say that about seeing it in the theaters" and I thought that was a good point. But if they're saying something like that you gotta up the ante. And I don't mean scale.
This feels like this could've been a made for TV movie or even a season finale