In ghostly form, he sees the Death of Rats coming for Dangerous Beans and makes a deal with Death: two of his remaining lives in exchange for both his life and the albino rat's. Do Maurice, the rats, and the piper succeed in their aims and fleece the residents of Bad Blintz as they have with so many other towns on Discworld? I care about "ring of truth" (if I think too much about types of stories I get confused and start labelling everything).

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

How did the film bring attention to storytelling devices and plot elements through Malicia's narration and obsession with reading books? Keith, (Maurice's pet human) just never got more that a 'meh' from me, my heart was all with the rats come the end.

When it's discovered that Bad Blintz already has a rat problem -- one that a couple of shifty-eyed rat catchers claim to have under control -- things turn deadly. With the assistance of an as well creative for-her-own particular great young lady, Malicia, Keith and Maurice start to examine why every one of the rats are gone, and what the rodent catchers are doing. Adapted from the book by Terry Pratchett, this perky computer-animated adventure leans a little heavily on its meta self-aware storytelling devices (expect numerous fourth-wall-smashing to camera asides), but it’s a fun, if slightly macabre option for family audiences. I'm very pleased to report that the reading experience was even better this time - partly because the original is always better, partly because I now understood certain side-stabs and references, which was very rewarding. In the case of the trailer for The Amazing Maurice, it may have just caused many more to put their hands in their pockets and purchase a seat for opening night.

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It's fun and funny and I will always look at this novel as a sly reference to Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, including multiple minds linked together to make a full intelligence. An extra easter egg are the innuendos on kids and young adults literature and movies, some kind of indirect fourth wall break, because the serious, heavy, often boring adult classics Pratchett satirizes in many of his other works are exchanged with the really good kids' stuff. A movie based on this book was released last year; I can't imagine they got those parts right, but maybe?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. They are saved when the wind-up toy mouse Malicia previously took from Darktan distracts him long enough to lose the flute, allowing them to run back to town with the flute. Darktan, the toolbelt-swathed engineering-wizard rat, has a crisis of faith about his role as a leader. Any fans of Pratchett will likely be familiar with the plot of the novel, and often for these fans, it can be crucial that the adaptation stay true to the source material. The book has been adapted for the stage twice: first by Stephen Briggs in 2003 and published by Oxford Playscripts, [5] then in 2011 as a musical by Matthew Holmes, published by Collins Musicals.

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As the rats move into the town's underground, they discover an overwhelmingly large number of rat traps, but no live keekees (rats who cannot talk or think). This time I paid more attention to the interactions between the rates, particularly to the ones who were adult rats when they became sentient and so remembered the old ways. Gosh, really,’ said Maurice, wondering if there were any more fish-heads and, if there were any more fish-heads, whether they were worth all this. It is full of talking rats and a cat and also some really random and dodgy implications of magic that certainly has me interested in reading more of his works.Ever since then, Maurice has done his best to put the rodents (rat is considered a derogative term) to good work so he they can get rich.