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The Amazing Maurice

The Amazing Maurice

  • Status: Released
  • 16-12-2022
  • Runtime: 93 min
  • Score: 6.746
  • Vote count: 167

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.

Hugh Laurie

Maurice (voice)

Emilia Clarke

Malicia (voice)

David Thewlis

Boss Man / Rat King (voice)

Himesh Patel

Keith (voice)

David Tennant

Dangerous Beans (voice)

Gemma Arterton

Peaches (voice)

Ariyon Bakare

Darktan (voice)

Joe Sugg

Sardines (voice)

Julie Atherton

Nourishing (voice)

Hugh Bonneville

The Mayor (voice)

Rob Brydon

The Pied Piper (voice)

Peter Serafinowicz

Death (voice)

Florian Westermann

Ratcatcher Billy (voice)

Toby Genkel

Ratcatcher Ron (voice)

Megan Giglia

In-Brine (voice)

Leona Liberty

Sell-By (voice)

Giles New

Blintz Vendor / Rat Handler / Chicken (voice)

Keiron Self

Rat Pit Announcer (voice)

Lynne Seymour

Rustic Old Lady / Bone Rat (voice)

Elizabeth Sankey

Bad Blintz Mother / Child / Baker (voice)

Kishan Barr

Rustic Village Boy (voice)

Jim Johnson

Brute the Cute / Billy / Jacko (voice)

Rob Wilkins

Rat Pit Dog Handler (voice)

Suzy Smithson

Bloodthirsty Rat Pit Spectator (voice)

Alex Stott

Rat Pit Spectator (voice)

Yasamin Saadat

Rat Pit Spectator (voice)

Andrew Baker

Rat Pit Gambler (voice)

Lisa Baker

Rat Pit Spectator (voice)

Julia Stuart

Encouraging Clan Rat (voice)

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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.