YMMV / The Bob's Burgers Movie

• Award Snub: Despite rave reviews and positive reception, the movie wasn't even nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars, in addition to receiving no nominations for Best Original Song.
• Awesome Music: The three songs in the movie (Sunny Side Up Summer, Lucky Ducks and Not That Evil) are excellent, being uniformly hilarious and catchy. In fact, a common critique of the movie is that people wished it had more songs!
• Badass Decay: Louise isn't nearly as courageous in the movie as she is in the show, with an entire arc about needing to face her fears and become braver. When Chloe calls her a baby, Louise's response is to mope about it, when the Louise from the earlier seasons would have likely concocted an elaborate revenge plan (such as in "Ear-sy Rider", where she tried to have a biker gang cut off Logan Bush's ears after the latter stole her hat).
• Captain Obvious Reveal: While those who aren't familiar with the show may have a tougher time figuring it out, anyone remotely familiar with the show will very quickly deduce that Grover is the killer. Both Calvin and Felix are too major to remove from the series in such a way^note and if the killer was Felix it would basically be rehashing the Season 4 finale. Meanwhile, Grover is a minor character with only two previous appearances (i.e. expendable) and the kids' primary reason for suspecting Felix (he would inherit Calvin's wealth if Calvin went to prison) applies just as much to Grover (the movie mentions he's Calvin's cousin before the murder mystery even begins, which sets up that he's second-in-line for Calvin's wealth).
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: In one of the earlier seasons, Louise was shown, as a baby, wearing a pink beanie. Knowing that she reminds Bob of his Missing Mom who always wore a similar pink beanie and seeing the family resemblance betwixt the two, makes that connection a bit sweeter in retrospect.
• Like You Would Really Do It: Given Season 13 of the show has already been announced, was anyone really expecting the Belchers to actually die when Grover buried them in the sinkhole?
• Memetic Mutation: The film being a box office disappointment has led to jokes among fans that this is actually on brand for Bob Belcher.
• Moral Event Horizon: Grover Fischoeder murdered Cotton Candy Dan six years prior to the events of the film as part of an elaborate scheme to gain his cousins' inheritance, and later tries to bury the Belcher family alive.
• Padding: Grover’s Villain Song lasts nearly 6 minutes and he spends a majority of it explaining his plans for the Wharf, something that he could have done when he was holding his cousins and the Belcher siblings at arrow-point.
• Squick: When the teeth from the rotting skeleton of Cotton Candy Dan falls into Louise's mouth.
  • As well as her putting it in her mouth again to hide it.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: If they didn't decide to reveal what Louise looks like without her bunny ears in the Big Damn Movie, it makes you wonder if they ever will.
• Unexpected Character: Until the movie was actually released in theaters, David Wain was listed on Wikipedia as playing Courtney Wheeler, who'd racked up nearly twenty appearances in the show proper (both minor and major), with nary a mention of Grover Fischoeder, who'd only appeared as a minor character in two episodes. Ultimately, Courtney only appears briefly sitting behind Gene in class and during the end credits (both times without saying anything), while Grover ends up being the Big Bad of the film.
  • Fanny, a one-off antagonist not seen or mentioned since the "Wharf Horse" two-parter in Season 4, returns in this film. Though it is somewhat fitting, given that "Wharf Horse" and The Movie both have plots about a member of the Fischoeder family trying to destroy the wharf and attempting to kill Calvin and the Belchers.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Theatrically released animated films with a more mature rating are already pretty rare, so needless to say, the film got some pushback from the typical Animation Age Ghetto. Luckily, the film was a critical success in spite of the lackluster box office returns.
• The Woobie: Louise spends most of the movie debating whether to stop wearing her iconic bunny ears hat. She gets called a baby by Chloe, falls down the sinkhole where Cotton Candy Dan's corpse falls onto her (and his teeth inside her mouth!), gets laughed at again for her bunny ears hat at school the next day and later on in the film blames herself for her family's predicament.

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