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Endlessly inventive in the style of a 1920's silent movie, Hundreds of Beavers asks the question, what do you get when you cross Wile E Coyote with Buster Keaton and set him loose in the wilds of a Wisconsin winter? The answer is a damn good time despite - and in some cases because of - the low budget effects and cheap production values.

Blending animation with live footage, the movie is a series of pratfalls, skits and visual gags that could just as easily be tasks in a video game, or else a drunken dream brought on by imbibing too much cider.

Humans wearing animal onesies are a terrific stand-in for anthropomorphized cartoon characters. Similarly, the fact that the over the top violence more often than not results in death also seems more appropriate to the live action genre.

It's unlikely that Disney will come calling anytime soon (unless they discover a market for a pole dancing princess), which means you'll just have to take a chance and discover the charm of this movie's raw, unpolished nature on your own.

Before seeing the movie at the Hamburg Fantasy Filmfest, I wondered how an hour and a half of playtime can be filled with the ideas in the trailer without getting slow or tedious. Now I actually wonder when it was the last time I laughed that much through a whole movie.

While delivering a consistent, smart, reduced and extremely efficient visual syle, the presentation doesn't let your focus away for one second, otherwise you might miss something funny. The way it symbolizes, repeats and develops the events by smart iteration in a limited universe ist ist excellent!

I highly recommend seeing it. Not for small kids.

There are so many great old-school type gags running past the screen at full tilt, built-on or even combined in ways that I never saw coming, encouraging multiple viewings (which I will gladly do with giddy enthusiasm).

This flick is like a combination of the best classic cartoon skits, all mooched together, added with a hint of video-game logic, then stretched out into a full length feature, and somehow nailing it. With barely any downtime, it keeps upping the ante, getting more and more zany, yet always with a focused eye on the narrative. Not to mention, for such a small budget they really got the animated style down, with prefect settings or simple but effective tools, such as goofy costumes and multiple humorous props.

One of the most fun theatre experience I've had in quite a long time, the audience belly laughing the whole was trough.

This is basically a 108 minute Wiley E. Coyote movie about an apple orchard owner who brews his own alcoholic cider. One autumn, beavers decimate his business, leaving him to tough out the long winter without food or shelter.

I knew that premise going in and I was still not prepared for just how Looney Tunes this concept is. It has a very low budget, indie movie quality to it. All the animals are either puppets or just people in mascot costumes, with tons of green screen and simple CGI compositing to make it all work.

And it really does work. This movie knows it's incredibly dumb looking, but it leans into it, nailing the perfect tone of like, cartoon silliness meets silent film accelerated motion.

Yet the movie manages to keep a bit of an edge to it. Despite being very slapstick and Looney Tunes, I would not necessarily say this is a movie for little children. Silly as it may be, this is a story about a man learning to survive on his own in the wilderness, and there are times where it can be a little dark and adult. That's all part of its charm.

I find the whole thing very fun and refreshing, though I'm not entirely sure I'd want more of it than just this one movie. But while it lasts, this is a great movie full of lots of surprises.

This is probably one of the most creative bits of home brew filmmaking I've seen in quite a while.

Incredibly creative and funny. Wonderful gags from start to finish.

Unfortunately the film's greatest strength can also be its greatest weakness at times.

The choice to have no dialogue is fun, but it denies the opportunity for the film to slow down at any point. This results in the experience being a little exhausting.

Jokes that should be funny whiz by at times, since the brain is so overstimulated.

The non-stop, rapid fire pace can be greatly appreciated in short bursts, but if you hold down the trigger the barrel is going to overheat.

Still, greatly appreciated this movie. Plenty of laugh out loud moments. I have a soft spot in my heart for films like this where it's clear the people involved have a lot of passion and love for movies.

Highly recommend, probably going to check out "Lake Michigan Monster" next.

Cheers!