Tuesday Night | February 4, 2025

Tonight’s film is called “Hundreds of Beavers”. You can watch it on Amazon Prime or rent it elsewhere.

See what we thought below.

Every once in a while, you watch a film and feel it is entirely unique, in its own category or class. The more films you watch, the less likely it is that a film makes you feel this way. “Hundreds of Beavers” is one of those films.

A nearly wordless comedy, Mike Cheslik’s “Hundreds of Beavers” is categorized as a "slapstick epic" that tracks the ascension of a drunk to a master fur trapper. This was simply one of the most inventive films produced in years; and it was made for under $150,000. I’d call it “adult looney toons” for lack of a better reference point.

The movie is bursting with visual gags that build on each other throughout nearly two hour runtime. It's built on a thin premise. It probably overstayed its welcome by twenty minutes. This almost feels in service to the preposterousness of climax, where the lead fur trapper infiltrates a compound of literally trap hundreds of beavers.

Perhaps the most fitting description of a movie like this really is “adult looney toons”, but this doesn’t quite capture the brilliance of this film’s visual language, writing, or comedy.