Maurice Movie: The Amazing
Released in late 2022, The Amazing Maurice is a CG-animated fantasy comedy based on Sir Terry Pratchett’s award-winning novel, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents . The film, directed by Toby Genkel and co-directed by Florian Westermann, brings Pratchett’s satirical take on the "Pied Piper of Hamelin" to life with a star-studded voice cast and a screenplay by Terry Rossio.
The story follows (voiced by Hugh Laurie ), a streetwise, con-artist ginger cat who has developed the ability to talk. He leads a group of "educated" rodents—rats that have also gained sentience and speech—on a lucrative traveling scam. They enter villages, stage a "rat plague," and then have a naive, pipe-playing boy named Keith ( Himesh Patel ) "lure" the rats away for a fee. The Amazing Maurice Movie
The group's luck changes when they arrive at the town of , which is suffering from a real food shortage despite a lack of visible rats. There, they meet Malicia ( Emilia Clarke ), the mayor’s daughter and a book-obsessed storyteller who quickly sees through their scam but joins them to uncover a darker mystery. Together, they face off against a sinister force involving rat-catchers and a terrifying Rat King ( David Thewlis ). The Amazing Maurice Review - Mama's Geeky Released in late 2022, The Amazing Maurice is