The Best Comedy I Watched Last Year Deserves *Way* More Attention

This movie is an homage to silent films, but unlike The Artist, this movie is all about the laughs. And despite the old-school influences or lack of dialogue, the whole thing feels thoroughly modern. For instance, all the animals are played by adult humans in mascot costumes, adding an immediately recognizable ridiculousness to every scene. The jokes are a mix of physical clowning and visual effects added in post-production, though these are not the high-style CGI effects audiences have grown used to with every new Marvel movie or Star Wars series. The whole thing feels wildly low-budget—the movie was made for just $150,000—while simultaneously paying intense attention to detail. To put it succinctly: It’s like your favorite old-school Saturday morning cartoon come to life.

You’ll know seconds into watching the trailer whether or not Hundreds of Beavers is your kind of film, and I’ll concede there are people I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it to. (Not everyone appreciates the art of a perfectly idiotic prat fall like I do.) But with a 97 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and nearly-unanimous praise from critics, I am shocked that so few people have seen it. It was even listed among the top 10 of the top 50 films of 2024 on Letterboxd!

Luckily for everyone, Hundreds of Beavers became available to watch on Amazon Prime in April 2024, and is still there waiting for you whenever you’re in the mood to laugh at rambunctious bunnies, vicious wolves, a helplessly incompetent fur trapper and hundreds—yes hundreds—of tenacious beavers.

Watch Hundreds of Beavers now on Amazon Prime.