2022 · animation · adventure · comedy
The Amazing Maurice
Directed by Toby Genkel1h 33m2022
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.
Our read: The Amazing Maurice (2022) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive animation · adventure · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle animation / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
Watching The Amazing Maurice tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
?
Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
More info & search links
How The Amazing Maurice feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want witty Pratchett-flavored animation with rats, cats, and sly moral mischief.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if kid-targeted fantasy con-art plots and talking rodents feel too juvenile.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like The Amazing Maurice, with why →
Discussion
Make it a movie night.
Pick a mood, get a film the whole couch will enjoy, and give everyone something to watch for.
Pick tonight's film →