The Amazing Maurice

2022

AnimationAdventureComedyFamilyFantasy

Maurice is a streetwise ginger cat who comes up with a money-making scam by befriending a group of self-taught talking rats. When Maurice and the rodents meet a bookworm called Malicia, their little con soon goes down the drain.

"A furry tale about me."

Rating

6.756
160 votes

Popularity

1.8458

Origin & Countries

GBDEBE | en | Belgium,Canada,Germany,United Kingdom

Production

Ulysses Filmproduktion,Cantilever Media,Narrativia,Studio Rakete,Squeeze,Red Star 3D,Telepool,Global Screen,Creative Europe Media,Sky Original Productions

Runtime

93 min.

Budget (M$)

21.1 / 17ROI 124%

Status

Released

Release: 12/16/2022

Credits

The Amazing Maurice

Toby GenkelDirector

The Amazing Maurice

Hugh LaurieMaurice (voice)

The Amazing Maurice

Emilia ClarkeMalicia (voice)

The Amazing Maurice

David ThewlisBoss Man / Rat King (voice)

The Amazing Maurice

Himesh PatelKeith (voice)

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

1/23/2023

6 / 10

I quite liked the premiss of this animated comedy. The eponymous orange cat travels from town to town promising to help the citizens eliminate their perennial rat problems. Raising all the cash they can, they pay him and out of the blue a young lad appears and Hamelin-style, pipes all the offending rodents out of the town. Shortly afterwards, though, we realise that this is all a scam. "Maurice" is in league with his team of rats, and with the piper, and the money is to be used to enable them all to travel to a magical land mentioned in their sacred text (a comic book!). It's when they arrive in a town where they face a much greater danger, that "Maurice" has to raise his game and find the real "Pied Piper" and his pipe, if he is to save all his brethren from doom! It's a simple story with some fun characterisations - I liked "Dangerous Beans" and "Sardines" and the action flows along pleasingly for just ninety minutes. Certainly, it's a derivative hybrid of stories, and I found the narration really quite annoying after a while, but as a charming family adventure film that illustrates the values of teamwork, loyalty whilst still being peppered with some fun dialogue and scenarios, I quite enjoyed it.

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