Comedy Film Hundreds of Beavers Starts Streaming on Dropout

Dropout has become a reliable streaming service for fans of weird and inventive comedy. Shows like Game Changer and Make Some Noise give comedians room to get increasingly ridiculous. Now, the platform has added a movie that fits right in with that sensibility, and you can watch it with a Dropout subscription.

Hundreds of Beavers, the gloriously strange 2024 silent comedy, is now streaming on Dropout. If you missed the movie during its theatrical and VOD run, this is an excuse to finally see why it became one of the year’s biggest cult comedy discoveries.

Polygon called Hundreds of Beavers the funniest movie of 2024, describing it as a modern take on the silent comedies of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, filtered through the logic of a video game.

What is Hundreds of Beavers about?

Hundreds of Beavers follows Jean Kayak, played by Ryland Brickson Cole Tews. Kayak is a trapper whose life is ruined when a bunch of beavers cause absolute chaos. Stranded in the snowy wilderness, he sets out to survive, hunting animals and collecting beaver pelts in the hope of eventually earning enough money to marry a merchant’s daughter.

The movie is a black-and-white, dialogue-free slapstick comedy that plays like someone turned a classic silent movie into a video game. Kayak gradually upgrades his equipment, learns how different animals behave, and racks up beaver pelts, complete with counters and game-like menus.

Then there are the beavers. Most are played by people wearing enormous mascot costumes, including beaver construction workers, lawyers, judges, and even a Sherlock-and-Watson-style detective duo.

The movie was made for just $150,000, with its directors doing a lot with a little and earning a 97% score on Rotten Tomatoes. If you like your comedy strange, physical, and relentlessly committed to the bit, Hundreds of Beavers is worth adding to your Dropout watchlist.

Source: Polygon