The Amazing Maurice Review - A Fun Animated Flick
Hugh Laurie plays a talking cat named Maurice, and Keith, a piper, is his companion in crime (Himesh Patel). They travel from town to town with their gang of rats, tricking the locals into believing Keith and Maurice are the only people who can help them with their rat problem. The rowdy Malicia (Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke) draws the group into learning what happened when they arrive at a town barren of both rodents and food. They must stop the terrifying Rat king (David Thewlis), who has moved into the town to everyone's horror.
All ages can enjoy The Amazing Maurice's humour. There is a wide range of jokes given throughout the movie, albeit some lines are raunchier than others. Evildoers are given a poison and then told where to find the remedy, but both are just laxatives. In The Amazing Maurice, even the jokes about excrement have a deeper meaning. In the movie, death has a significant role. In the movie's action-packed conclusion, when both human and rat lives are on the line, the grim reaper asks his much smaller rat-grim reaper counterpart, "Busy day?" as the camera pans back from the battle. The film's most ridiculous joke, though, is when Clarke tells the story of the actual pied piper, an obvious psychopath, in it. The Amazing Maurice doesn't hold back, including drunk rats and leather jackets.
The cast provides the excitement that keeps the narrative engaging. There is a claim that hollywood has grown fixated on utilising celebrities as voice actresses rather than amateurs, leading to bigger animated films rather than better ones. In the case of The Amazing Maurice, the performers are only well-known enough so that viewers won't be deterred by them but skilled enough to bring this animated story to life. patel is endearing and gets along well with Clarke. The character with the most screen time, Laurie (well known for the television series House), makes good use of it by prancing around and giving exposition in the way he can only.
The audience can benefit greatly from The Amazing Maurice. It's simple to agree with the movie's idea if one can empathise with the rats in Ratatouille; everything else will follow. Almost everyone can chuckle at the humour, and no joke veers too far in either side to become tone-confusing. The cast is outstanding and having a blast in the animation industry. Terry Pratchett's writing has been sufficiently honoured by Genkel and Rossio, and both the original and the adaptation of The Amazing Maurice succeed.