The Amazing Maurice

This film had great characters and a really fun and quirky storyline. I watched it with my 9 yr old son who loved it too. It is a great introduction to Terry Pratchett and some of the key characters that appear in his other stories. Additionally it wove in familiar children's tales to the main plot. The film has a great lineup of actors providing the voices which added to the overall feel of the film. I'm not sure why the review rating isn't higher, it really was a good film. In summary: a genuinely enjoyable watch for the family with humour, gentle peril and some emotional scenes. Perfect for some light entertainment.

Being a fan of Terry Pratchett's work, I felt slightly apprehensive when I heard that The Amazing Maurice is being made into a family film. The end result, however, is as entertaining and charming as I could hope for!

There have been some changes, of course, but the spirit of the book is pretty intact, even if somewhat lighter. The visual jokes are in line with Pratchett's style of humour, and the grim and sad tones of the story get through without getting too upsetting.

Most of the character designs are really good, the only really disappointing one being Malicia's needle-thin-with-a-massive-bobble-head design that is so typical of 3D animations of the past decade.

All in all I'm positively surprised with the film!

Story that has been told several hundred times in cartoons, feature and shortfilmlenght movies, theater, tv series and living very vividly in the folklore, namely the ratcatcher of hameln , germany, or the pied piper that stole all the children as ransom money for some ratpack work, so now you know...

but there are quite a few original digressions to the story, and maurice the cat is one of them, still not able to play the flute, he is the real mobster that steal from the poor and never gives it back...

production is pretty generic when it comes to advanced animation, and the first 30 minutes scriptwise isenglishenglish spoken uziwise at a heck of a speed without telling much actually, but after that it works, and they are able to draw you into the royamune of the ratking, an underground landscape so lavishly animated and coloured i just ended up fascinated.

So have a happy hour with maurice and his bunch, is a recommend from the grumpy old man.

A very underappreciated animation. It was buried under tons of Christmas movies and people haven't noticed it.

My family and I very enjoyed watching the film. We laughed more than a few times. Of course, it may be another re-telling of the Pied Piper tale. But touches of Terry Pratchett's humor and cameo of his other characters make it special. And, personally, I liked that atmosphere in the film is darker than in a regular animation films. In my opinion, it's an animation for 10 yo and older.

Important note: I didn't read this book, so I had no expectations of this adaptation.

It's a 10 for me.

The trick with a film like this is to make a film that is both accessible to everyone, and that includes young children as well as to the Terry Pratchett faithful. I'm delighted to say this film manages both in spades.

The casting is fantastic and the animation, including British animation is wonderful and a delight not to be in the world of Disney for an animated feature. I don't know much about Terry Pratchett, but I have read this book and it manages to hit all the points that I would expect, with great characters and so many laughs in the cinema where we watched an early showing. The children, especially with riveted it seemed.