Set Aside Notions About Actors in Animal Suits: ‘Hundreds of Beavers’ Is an Intensely Clever, Richly Textured Farce
This picture is pure slapstick — done with a nod-and-a-wink, but also blessedly absent of self-aggrandizement. The out-and-out goal of this hyperkinetic film is to prompt laughter.

“Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” having been primed by “Top Gun: Maverick,” may have saved Hollywood from financial and cultural oblivion, but they don’t hold a candle to “Hundreds of Beavers” in terms of hardscrabble invention, independence of vision, and cinematic integrity. That, and none of those multimillion-dollar time-wasters have quite as many actors scuttering around in full-size animal suits.
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