Overview
A drunken salesman stumbles into an epic showdown with nature's furry foes, turning chaos into comedy.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Mild
- witty
- absurd
- propulsive
- cult movie night
- comedy marathon
What critics said
Critics broadly celebrated the film's sustained slapstick invention, visual imagination, editing, and energetic low-budget filmmaking.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The snowy frontier, costumed beavers, and escalating hunting systems are rendered in black and white with a deliberately game-like visual logic.
Jean's progression from drunken salesman to fur trapper is driven by recurring traps, brawls, falls, and escalating beaver encounters.
Jean systematically acquires trapping knowledge and equipment while confronting rabbits, fish, and beavers as successive obstacles.
The central conflict turns Jean's struggle for food and prosperity into an escalating contest with hundreds of beavers and other wildlife.
Films like Hundreds of Beavers, and why
The General
shares sustained physical comedy, visual invention, and low-budget eccentricity
PlayTime
shares black-and-white slapstick, survivalist ingenuity, and near-silent visual storytelling
Eraserhead
shares handmade action-comedy energy, absurd escalation, and audacious independent filmmaking
Evil Dead II
shares anarchic physical humor, fantasy-adventure spectacle, and maximalist gag construction
Movie Details
- Director
- Mike Cheslik
- Release Date
- 2024-01-26
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 (335)
Cast
- Ryland Brickson Cole Tews
- Olivia Graves
- Doug Mancheski
- Wes Tank
- Luis Rico
- Brendan Steere
- Jon Truei
- Jay Brown
- Jason Hoerchner
- Stephen Cervantes
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Philo, Brew, MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Fandor Amazon Channel, Midnight Pulp, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Midnight Pulp Amazon Channel, Cineverse Amazon Channel, ARROW
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Brew, Fandango At Home, MovieMe
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Brew, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Hundreds of Beavers about?
- A drunken applejack salesman battles an army of beavers in a wildly inventive black-and-white frontier quest for survival and glory.
- What is Hundreds of Beavers like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Hundreds of Beavers as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is Hundreds of Beavers violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Hundreds of Beavers as mild.
- What did critics think of Hundreds of Beavers?
- Critics broadly celebrated the film's sustained slapstick invention, visual imagination, editing, and energetic low-budget filmmaking.
- Which films are like Hundreds of Beavers?
- Films with a similar feel include The General, PlayTime, Eraserhead, and Evil Dead II.
- How long is Hundreds of Beavers?
- Hundreds of Beavers runs 108 minutes.
- Where can I watch Hundreds of Beavers?
- In United States, Hundreds of Beavers streams on Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Philo, Brew, MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Fandor Amazon Channel, Midnight Pulp, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Midnight Pulp Amazon Channel, Cineverse Amazon Channel, ARROW.
