Synopsis
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In the 19th century, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.
In the 19th century, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.
Mario Balistreri Nick Bellore Bill Krugler James Stoeffel James Weise Bob Mueller Louis R. Schultz Pat Fagan Cutter Tews Kelly Jakes Brian Barry Clete Long IV
这很河狸, Centenars de castors, Setki bobrów, 狸太怨, Cientos de castores, Stovky bobrů, 헌드레즈 오브 비버스, Сотни бобров
A masterpiece. So many fucking beavers. More genius gags than I've seen in the entire past decade of movies. Also secretly the best video game movie (not based on a video game) ever?
Also I love that they clearly went "we're gonna beat Drive My Car and RRR for longest time before the title appears" and they pulled it off.
The funniest live-action cartoon I've ever seen.
HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS isn't merely a 'homage' to silent cinema and Looney Tunes-style comedy, but an actual example of it, with a new gag every few seconds that left me howling with tears of laughter, thanks to a visual identity somewhere between Terry Gilliam (cut-out animation included), an adventure video game and Japanese genius Hitoshi Matsumoto.
The plot is perfectly straightforward (as it should be): A man wakes up in a frozen forest and has to slowly build up enough resources to survive and, eventually, win the heart of the furtraper's daughter. Of course, that means this man has to hunt the local fauna (portrayed by people in animal costumes) for food and…
A genuinely astonishing snowy Midwest epic of silent-era/golden age cartoon humor and wit, retro video game design logic, and ingenious low-budget fur-trapper survivalist horror-action-comedy mayhem. A true testament to what you can do with a DSLR, After Effects, a handful of animal mascot costumes, a commitment to storyboarding, and a true gut understanding that 100 years ago a man falling over or getting hit really, really hard was the peak of comedy for a reason.
Just when you think its Guy Maddin Looney Tune schtick is bound to collapse on itself it somehow finds another vaudeville slapstick angle to build on its constantly accumulating mix of delightfully low-brow mania and intelligent, deliberate pastiche engineering. There are so many incredible physicals gags…
If I had half the dedication that this filmmaker has I’d be unstoppable. They should show Hundreds of Beavers at commencement speeches.
It’s like Looney Tunes and Monty Python mated with Sin City. You might be thinking, “That sounds fucking insane.”
Yes.
This movie created its own style and then took it to levels I did not think it could go. I felt so immersed in the rules and cartoon logic it established and built off of over it’s surprisingly merited 108 minutes. Just an extraordinary creative feat. No point in watching anything else until you’ve seen this, so if it’s in your city grab a log and roll over to your local theater on it.
”J’ACCUSE!”
an absolute miracle of micro budget filmmaking. one of the best metroidvanias of all time
Right after it ended my gf said “google how do i rate a movie more than 5 stars [out of 5]” and i really gotta agree with that statement. feel very lucky to have seen the movie twice now. Can’t fucking wait until more people see this
The thing I like about the title is it is accurate.
I haven’t laughed this hard at a beaver joke since The Naked Gun.