![]() Turning the Pied Piper story on its head, and then flipping it around again so that it’s right-side up but utterly disoriented, The Amazing Maurice asks plenty of its young audience. As a former kid with a lot of affection for the animated movies that used to freak me out, that’s a compliment. This isn’t pristine, groundbreaking, photoreal CG, but cartoonishness that suits its oddballs-and might even give a kid a stray nightmare or two. Stuffed with motormouths and throwaway gags, the chunky animation can be a little off-putting, but its momentary ugliness feeds into its delightfully dark villains, its underdog heroes and the strange story tying them all together. ![]() Adapting Terry Pratchett’s Carnegie-winning Discworld book, The Amazing Maurice is a successfully wry, odd, utterly British spin on the Shrek-like self-aware fairy tale. ![]()
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