"The Simpsons Movie" may have made the joke about paying to see something you get on television for free, but there's a certain thrill that comes with seeing one of your favorite shows make the transfer to the big screen. I may have hopped aboard almost a decade into its run, but I adore "Bob's Burgers" and all of the delightfully weird characters of Seymour's Bay. I think it's safe to say that the Belchers have earned their place among the great sitcom families, especially since Bob and Lina actually nurture their children's idiosyncrasies.

Seymour's Bay is structured like a summer town so it makes sense to turn the animated sitcom into a summer blockbuster to compliment the series' sunny aesthetic. I really enjoyed "The Bob's Burgers Movie," for the most part, as it stands by its characters while exploring beyond familiar environments and all of the secrets within. At its center, the feature film adaptation is a murder mystery, but it's also a musical...kind of."The Bob's Burgers Movie" features a few awesome numbers, but it falls short of the kind of numbers to make it a full-blown musical. It appears as if this was by design.

Bouchard rather people say they want more songs than complain about having too many

In an interview with Consequence, series creator Loren Bouchard ("Central Park") said he initially had the idea of including as many songs as a typical Disney musical, but ultimately decided he'd rather leave folks wanting more: The songs that made it in "The Bob's Burgers Movie" are great, but that's kind of the problem. It's understandable to have the audience enjoy what they're given without feeling as if the film tried stretching itself too far. The issue, however, is that the first two songs ("Sunny Side Up Summer" and "Lucky Ducks") are unbelievably catchy numbers that create this kind of bouncy show tune momentum before the movie decides to kind of bow out.

One of my biggest criticisms of "The Bob's Burgers Movie" is that it ultimately doesn't commit to the bit. Bouchard's thoughts on making a "Bob's" musical makes sense within the confines of a half-hour show where there isn't a lot of time to waste beyond a brief bouncy tune. It's different when the film presents itself as an all-out musical within the first few minutes a la "South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut," only for it to kind of decide it doesn't want to anymore.