The Amazing Maurice
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.
- Released: 2023-01-06
- Runtime: 93 minutes
- Genre: Adventure, Animation, Fantasy
- Stars: Gemma Arterton, Emilia Clarke, David Thewlis, Hugh Bonneville, Himesh Patel, Ariyon Bakare, Julie Atherton, Joe Sugg, Peter Serafinowicz, Hugh Laurie
- Director: Toby Genkel
Comments
- FreeFallAnnie - 3 June 2024
Fun Framing!
I was looking up Sir Terry Pratchett's work because I love his morals, and ideals. In particular, I love his grasp of concepts like entanglement and superposition (quantum-like stuff).
I agree with the quote from his Night Watch series- "Y'know,' he said, 'it's very hard to talk quantum using a language originally designed to tell other monkeys where the ripe fruit is."
Baring this in mind, I was up for whatever I could find of his work as I truly believe we need new ways of talking about the messy nature of the world.
Low and behold. The Amazing Maurice popped up.
I was not let down.
It was a fun fiction using framing form.
The book Bunnsy Wunnsy takes on a superpostition of being both in Malicia's story and in the main narrative. Until the state is collapsed at the climax of the story.
This was cool.
Then there was the recursive form of the framing devices used. Recursion happens all the time, it changes the dimension/layer on which an event is happening.
I often struggle to keep track of which layer I am in, so seeing the concept demonstrated so effectively was indeed mentorship for me.
I think it's important to see different ways of delivering narratives - this kind of networked information is part of our messy world.
Love this quirky tale. - paul_haakonsen - 18 April 2023
Quite enjoyable...
When I sat down here in 2023 to watch the 2022 animated movie "The Amazing Maurice", I did so with my son. And I have to say that we both found this animated movie to be rather enjoyable.
The storyline in "The Amazing Maurice", as written by Terry Rossio was quite good. I didn't know that it was based on a Terry Pratchett book, but that was definitely a nice thing. The story in "The Amazing Maurice" proved entertaining from start to end, and it offers something for children and adults alike. And that makes "The Amazing Maurice" a rather versatile and easily enjoyable animated movie.
With "The Amazing Maurice" being an animated movie, of course having a good voice acting cast is essential. And they definitely had that here, with the likes of Hugh Laurie, Emilia Clarke and David Thewlis, and many others.
The art style and animation style in "The Amazing Maurice" was good and enjoyable. There were a lot of attention to detail in all scenes, with lots of nice additions, which makes the movie suitable for more than just a single viewing.
I was genuinely entertained by "The Amazing Maurice" from directors Toby Genkel and Florian Westermann, and it is an animated movie that I warmly recommend you to watch if you enjoy animated fables.
My rating of "The Amazing Maurice" lands on a six out of ten stars.
