The Amazing Maurice

I love Terry Pratchett and have read many Discworld novels, so I’m biased toward liking this movie. However, I haven’t read The Amazing Maurice itself, so I can’t say how faithful the adaptation is to the book. That said, I really enjoyed the Discworld references, and the film felt like Pratchett — clever, irreverent, and self-aware in all the right ways. I liked it a lot.

Adaptation Displacement to Discworld

This movie Is terrible!

As an adaptation of Terry Pratchett's "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents" this movie falls woefully short. Gone is Mr. Pratchett's wit and insights into taking the good wisdom of previous generations while rejecting the hatred they carried, or of how we project our fears and hatred onto people different from us while justifying those same actions within ourselves. Characters are completely unrecognizable from their novel counterparts. Probably the worst thing done in this movie is that they took the novel and put a Mr. Bunsy has an Adventure filter over it, the very thing that Mr. Pratchett decried in his novel. Taken as a stand alone movie with no consideration of it being an adaptation, it's art style is what you would expect from a straight to TV movie (which it wasn't). There is a plot in there, or at least it has a beginning and an end, but don't expect much in the way of connecting those two points. If your kids enjoy the kind of animation and story telling found in your average Barbie movie, then they'll probably enjoy this as well.

This movie was great because it had a lesson that was rats have feelings like humans!

ADORABLE totally. Emilia should do more voice work.

this movie was decent. it was a decent book adaptation, and it really had the potential to be great, but the story seemed a bit fast for the book's pace. sadly, the concept of conciseness was completely skipped out on. also, I really don't feel as if the movie was about Maurice. He really seemed like a side character, rather than the main attraction. but, I did think the humor was captured quite well. the animation style doesn't really fit the book, but it didn't take much to get used to the unique designs of the characters. another thing to note is the main villain. he seemed more silly than scary, and really wasn't intimidating. he felt out of place. overall, this movie could have been as great as the book, but it wasn't.

It looks like another failure to adapt Terry Pratchett to the big screen because they NEVER leave things the way he wrote them. The animation would be just OK... if it were 20+ years ago. Now it just looks cheap. I'd not say its as bad as the live action disc world adaptation that was so bad the estate made them say it was "inspired" by it rather than an adaptation. If you love his books, stay away as comparisons will only make a film like this look even worse than it is. If you have a child who ... who .. nope, just sit down and read them the book instead.

great movie. Terry Pratchett was a master story teller. This reminded me of watching Shrek for the first time

A pretty solid retelling of Terry Practetts anti-children's story-story, with a considerable amount of his charm and wit still present in the transition. If you are interested in introducing your child to a meta-commentary on how our stories are shaped and how they shape us then I would 100% recommend showing them this picture.