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Amazing Maurice, The [Blu-ray]

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Parfitt, Orlando (5 November 2020). "Sky sets animated feature 'The Amazing Maurice' with Hugh Laurie, Emilia Clarke (exclusive)". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 5 November 2020 . Retrieved 6 November 2020.

Lodge, Guy (30 January 2023). " 'The Amazing Maurice' Review: Spry British Animated Romp Shows a Cat (or Even a Rat) May Look at a King". Variety . Retrieved 30 June 2023. The main focus of the tale is Maurice, a large ginger moggie with a mouthful of teeth that would put the Cheshire Cat in the shade and who is forced to remind people at regular intervals that it's pronounced "Maureeees". He's a sarky sort, he is a cat after all, and Hugh Laurie's vocals suit him perfectly. Maurice's mates - who have lost top billing in the transition from source book The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents to the film - are a band of rats. They are far more chatty than most after dining on the wizardry dump near the Unseen University and they've also got a young human called Keith (Himesh Patel) in tow. Keith has an important part to play in the little band's ruse, which sees them travel from town to town creating a 'plague of rats' until Keith pipes the rodents away for a suitable sum. The mice think that Maurice is saving the cash so they can go to live on an island they have read about in a book and believe is a paradise, where men and rats live side by side. Maurice? Well, as previously noted, Maurice is a cat, so has other ideas. The Amazing Maurice was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Dazzler Media (under license from Universal Pictures) on 1 May 2023. [16] Reception [ edit ] Box office [ edit ] Their quest leads them to the local rat catchers' headquarters where they find a secret passage to the basement filled with food. They also find Darktan and the other rats coming from the tunnels with the trap they found. Maurice correctly guesses that the rat catchers are trying to catch the rats alive to use them for entertainment, pitting dogs in rings with rats and betting on how fast they are killed. The rat catchers catch Sardines and use him for the ring but he is rescued by the others.

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Terry Pratchett was a man who knew the rules of traditional storytelling and characters and that knowledge allowed him to bend them in interesting ways that retained a whiff of the original while being original in themselves. So it is with this family tale that's scampering on to Sky TV this Christmas in the UK and then heading Stateside to Sundance. Milligan, Mercedes (2 December 2022). "Exclusive: 'The Amazing Maurice' Lets the Fur Fly in U.S. Theaters February 3". Animation Magazine . Retrieved 2 February 2023.

The animated film The Amazing Maurice has been released today to buy on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK. The Sky Original feature stars Hugh Laurie, who voices the eponymous Maurice, with David Tennant co-starring as intelligent rat Dangerous Beans, AWN Staff (13 June 2019). "Sir Terry Pratchett's 'Amazing Maurice' Being Turned into Animated Feature". Animation World Network. Archived from the original on 12 June 2019 . Retrieved 7 November 2020. The Amazing Maurice is rated PG. Parental guidance is suggested, meaning some material may not be suitable for children. Parents are urged to give "parental guidance." The movie may contain some material parents might not like for their young children. 6.2 Hugh Laurie voices the title character, a charming, talking cat in a world where not all animals talk. (Why he and his rat buddies can speak is one of the plot's mysteries.) Anyway, Maurice goes to small villages and sings about their rat problem, revealing that only he and his buddy Keith ( Himesh Patel) can “pied piper” the rats out of town and save the day. For a price, of course. It’s all a scam. Keith, Maurice, and even the rats (including ones voiced by Gemma Arterton and David Tennant, among others) are just trying to make a little coin on their way across the country.The film tells the tale of Maurice, a large talking cat, who travels from town to town offering to solve their sudden rat problem. He unveils Keith, a young boy who can play the pipe quite well, and the rats march out of town to the relief of the townsfolk. Maurice and the money received from the grateful town suddenly disappear and he reappears a suitable distance away to count the money with Keith and the rats! But these are no ordinary rats – they talk and wear clothes and dream of an island paradise where rats and humans live together in peace. All goes well with their ‘rat scam’ until they reach the town of Bad Blintz, where they meet a book-obsessed girl, Malicia, who leads them on an adventure to solve the mystery of her town. Zahed, Ramin (25 August 2022). " 'The Amazing Maurice' Will Paw Its Way to U.S. Theaters in January". Animation Magazine . Retrieved 2 February 2023. Clarke, Cath (14 December 2022). "The Amazing Maurice review – rodent crime caper is a riot of silliness". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 30 June 2023. The Amazing Maurice is a 2022 computer-animated fantasy comedy film directed by Toby Genkel and co-directed by Florian Westermann, from a screenplay by Terry Rossio, based on the 2001 novel The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett. [5] [6] The film stars Hugh Laurie, Emilia Clarke, David Thewlis, Himesh Patel, Gemma Arterton, Joe Sugg, Ariyon Bakare, Julie Atherton, Rob Brydon, Hugh Bonneville and David Tennant. [7] The story follows Maurice, a streetwise ginger cat who befriends a group of talking rats by coming up with a money-making scam.

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