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The Amazing Maurice

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6.8/10 • 155

2022-12-161h 33m

AnimationAdventureComedyFamilyFantasy

A furry tale about me.

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.

Directors
Toby Genkel
Editors
Friedolin Dreesen

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  1. Hugh Laurie

    Hugh Laurie

    Maurice (voice)

  2. Emilia Clarke

    Emilia Clarke

    Malicia (voice)

  3. David Thewlis

    David Thewlis

    Boss Man / Rat King (voice)

  4. Himesh Patel

    Himesh Patel

    Keith (voice)

  5. David Tennant

    David Tennant

    Dangerous Beans (voice)

  6. Gemma Arterton

    Gemma Arterton

    Peaches (voice)

  7. Ariyon Bakare

    Ariyon Bakare

    Darktan (voice)

  8. Joe Sugg

    Joe Sugg

    Sardines (voice)

  9. Julie Atherton

    Julie Atherton

    Nourishing (voice)

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CinemaSerf

Jan 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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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$17,000,000.00
Revenue
$21,110,363.00
Keywords
based on novel or bookgrim reapercartoon catnine livesratterry pratchettdiscworldinterspecies friendship