Hundreds Of Beavers Movie Review- Unique, Original, B&W, Silent Slapstick Comedy, Is One Of The Best Of The Year--On VOD April 15th
The film is in black & white, it's also a silent film but with sounds of explosions or gasps from the lead actor. Chuckles from the beavers, birds pecking the lead actor & others, on the head. Such a great film throughout.
Hundreds of Beavers is excited to announce their streaming launch on April 15. The film, which emerged as one of the festival circuit's most unexpected gems of recent years, is coming to VOD and Fandor as a national tour continues. Hundreds of Beavers will be available for rental and purchase on Prime Video and Apple TV nationwide through FilmHub starting April 15, 2024. Other major TVOD platforms will follow. The frostbitten epic comedy will be available as an SVOD exclusive on Fandor beginning April 19.
The film has an unending energy that can't be topped, the creativity of this film is something to be applauded, it took four years to make the film with edits apparently happening every day after the day shoots were over, just to save time for the overall process at the end.
The film has a purpose for Jean's constant need to kill Hundreds of Beavers, there is a love story that is introduced and he has to present The Furrier's(Olivia Graves-above) father, who is the local merchant with the skins of the beavers to win his daughter's hand.
The Merchant(Dan Mencheski-above) waits patiently for the trappers to bring him the fur from the animals(furries) and has his daughter skin and make garments from.
However, there is a very successful trapper-The Mountain Man(Wes Tank), who has a very similar likeness to that, of Santa Claus, with sled dogs(not reindeer) and a huge bag full of beaver skins(not toys--sorry boys & girls)
The creativity always continues and so does the energy, this would be very hard to categorize as there is no dialogue it's easy for anyone to watch. The violence is cartoon, slapstick, when one of the animals is killed they have their eyes crossed out, like Jean's hat above.
I cannot recommend this movie more, it will be one of my favorites of the year, I honestly cannot remember when a comedy has been one of my favorites of the year, however, Wicked Little Letters will also be on the list for best of the year.
We follow a clumsy trapper, Jean Kayak(Ryland Brickson Cole Tews-above) as he tries, terribly to trap, rabbits and, you guessed it beavers. These are not your average beaver, these are mascot-style beavers, the film has so many different homages to cartoons, and silent movies, like Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush.
A tribute to Return of the Jedi, possibly, in a sled chase that has Jean throw a beaver off the sled and it lands identically the same as the speeder bike chase in Jedi.
The film has an unending energy that can't be topped, the creativity of this film is something to be applauded, it took four years to make the film with edits apparently happening every day after the day shoots were over, just to save time for the overall process at the end.
Being that Jean is alone in the cold wilderness, he often makes snowpeople to keep him company while he fishes(see above)he's also not successful and is often starving.
Early on in the film, he finds a bird nest and tries unsuccessfully to get the eggs, there is a hilarious scene where he is attacked by the bird, pecked on the head, and falls from the tree, almost impaled by very large falling icicles, after falling in a bush full of thorns which he screams in agonizing pain, later in the film he finds to his advantage.
The film has a purpose for Jean's constant need to kill Hundreds of Beavers, there is a love story that is introduced and he has to present The Furrier's(Olivia Graves-above) father, who is the local merchant with the skins of the beavers to win his daughter's hand.
The Merchant(Dan Mencheski-above) waits patiently for the trappers to bring him the fur from the animals(furries) and has his daughter skin and make garments from.
However, there is a very successful trapper-The Mountain Man(Wes Tank), who has a very similar likeness to that, of Santa Claus, with sled dogs(not reindeer) and a huge bag full of beaver skins(not toys--sorry boys & girls)
The creativity always continues and so does the energy, this would be very hard to categorize as there is no dialogue it's easy for anyone to watch. The violence is cartoon, slapstick, when one of the animals is killed they have their eyes crossed out, like Jean's hat above.
The use of the map is so very fun and clever, at each mishap, or sequence of events we follow Jean on the map as he whistles a little interlude almost, as we follow the animation to the next point, or if he falls back, like in snakes & ladders.
There are even big bad wolves in here, with a very subtle hint of Peter & The Wolf theme for the wolf.
I cannot recommend this movie more, it will be one of my favorites of the year, I honestly cannot remember when a comedy has been one of my favorites of the year, however, Wicked Little Letters will also be on the list for best of the year.
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