Hundreds of Beavers – Movie Review

TL;DR – It was a completely wild ride from start to finish. I am not sure I have ever seen a film like this before, and I doubt I will ever again.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Post-Credit Scene – There is no post-credit scene.

Disclosure – I was sent a screener of this film.

Jean Kayak pops out of a hole.

Hundreds of Beavers Review

For the last year, I kept hearing rumblings of this weird Beavers film that everyone needed to see. It is super low budget, weird in every way, yet utterly engaging. It is the sort of film that never gets a theatrical realise in Australia; well, that is, it does not usually get one. I was fundamentally surprised to see this was not the case here, but more than that, I was excited to see just how a film like this could come together, and I am not sure if anything prepared me for this.  

So, to set the scene, deep in the 19th century, Jean Kayak (Ryland Brickson Cole Tews) is an applejack producer, a very alcoholic liquor that everyone near and wide travels to, given how good it is. However, a stray beaver damages the giant kegs storing the Applejack, destroying the store and orchard in the process. Jean has only one option: get even with the beavers. The only problem is that he will have to survive first, which might be easier said than done. It is not like it is a brutally cold winter, and he has nothing to his name but the clothes on his back and the ability to carve interactive sculptures out of wood with his teeth.  

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