Mike Cheslik’s “Hundreds of Beavers”

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.