And she didn’t deserve to be bound and gagged along with Mr Vogel, who caught quite a chill as a result! IF (like me) you've always been impatient with the Rincewind-heavy volumes of Sir Terry's oeuvre, you're in luck.

Maurice Release Date, Trailer, Cast - Collider The Amazing Maurice Release Date, Trailer, Cast - Collider

Maybe it has to do with the fact that I never found the tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin very appealing when I was a child. The Amazing Maurice was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Dazzler Media (under license from Universal Pictures) on 1 May 2023. The audiobook of The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents is read by Ariyon Bakare ( Good Omens; His Dark Materials). While the characters lie and manipulate others, they show strong dedication to one another and value the importance of friendship. But when they reach a place where the rats have all disappeared, along with all the town's food, they must team up with the mayor's daughter, Malicia ( Emilia Clarke), to solve the mystery and save the day.Unfortunately, I have to disagree with them because it just doesn't have the depth of story or comedic dialogue that I have come to love from Discworld books. He does not seek to lead but provides insightful help to Darktan after the latter becomes the leader of the Clan.

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents - Wikipedia

The best part about this book, aside from criminal talking animals, is the existential crisis all the rats are going through. Karen Usher, who chaired the panel of Carnegie judges, declared that the selection was unanimous: "This is an outstanding work of literary excellence–a brilliant twist on the tale of the Pied Piper that is funny and irreverent, but also dark and subversive. Then they arrive in Bad Blintz, which is suffering from a plague of rats, and find there are NO rats anywhere (though the two resident rat catchers seem to have plenty of tails to show, at 50 pence per tail).This is barely a Discworld book—with the exception of Death (who could seamlessly slide into any other setting) there's nothing to differentiate it from any generic lightly-magical medievalish locale—while being quintessentially a Discworld book. Malicia believes that the rat catchers are up to something and so she, Maurice, and Keith break into the rat catchers' hut. Confronting the rat king in the rat catchers' office, Maurice appears and hits him with the money they swindled, allowing him to escape with the two rats. His cronies the rats can talk too, thanks to their hazardous-magical-waste diet amid the trash-heaps behind Unseen University. Just one of the many hilarious lines in this family animation adapted from the Terry Pratchett children’s novel about a crew of scam artist rodents.