A streetwise cat has already worked out the easiest way to talk small-town leaders out of their money, and all he needs is a kid who can look convincingly harmless while the con plays out. The Amazing Maurice, a 2022 animated feature, builds its whole premise on that partnership before letting it get complicated.
What is The Amazing Maurice about?
Maurice built his money-making scheme long before the story starts and knows exactly how to run it: find a town, find a boy who can pass for clueless, and let the routine do the rest. The film follows what happens once that setup, reliable as it has always been, starts to strain under towns and people who do not behave the way earlier marks did. It is a family adventure that leans on voice performance and animation rather than spectacle, telling a story about a con that slowly outgrows the con artist running it.
About the cast
Hugh Laurie and Emilia Clarke lead the voice cast, joined by David Thewlis, Himesh Patel, Gemma Arterton and Hugh Bonneville in supporting roles. The ensemble gives the film's mix of comic timing and warmth room to work, with the voice performances doing much of the job of distinguishing characters that share a small, close-quarters story.
Context & significance
Directed by Toby Genkel, The Amazing Maurice is a German-Irish co-production released in 2022, running just over ninety minutes as an animated family feature. The film sits in a tradition of animal-led caper stories aimed at family audiences, using its scheme-and-consequence structure to keep the pace brisk without needing a large cast of settings to do it.
Watching The Amazing Maurice on Ktime
K-Time streams The Amazing Maurice with a Persian dub, giving Farsi-speaking families an option beyond the original English track. Browsing the page costs nothing; watching the film itself requires signing into a K-Time account, and the platform's Farsi-first interface is built with exactly this kind of family viewing in mind.