When his cider distillery is destroyed, a pioneer must learn to trap beaver to stay alive through the winter and win the love of the fur trader's daughter. This live action cartoon is the Looney Tunes love child of Jeremiah Johnson and Chaplin's The Gold Rush. It's ridiculously clever and inventive and the hilarious gags never stop flowing from beginning to end. Filmed in the snowy forests but heavily edited in After Effects, it has the rough-hewn quality of silent films that complements its setting and adds to its charm. Lead actor and co-writer Ryland Brickson Cole Tews is terrific in a heavily physical role that's broadly comic without overplaying it. I laughed a lot and will be recommending this film to everyone.
Review of Hundreds of Beavers
