The film stars Tews as an applejack maker in a conflict with beavers, trying to win the hand of a merchant's daughter.

Cheslik and Tews, who previously collaborated on multiple projects, developed the idea for Hundreds of Beavers in October 2018.

Hundreds of Beavers premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 29, 2022, and has been met with critical praise and listed among the ten best films of the year by multiple outlets.

Cheslik and Tews rejected the distribution offers made to them due to the limited release schedules and instead self-distributed their film.

Two beavers sneak into the orchard of successful 19th century applejack salesman Jean Kayak and eats the support beams of his two giant kegs.

He finds a group of beavers collecting logs to build a structure and attacks a pair, but is physically beaten by them.

He accidentally pushes a beaver into it, causing it to malfunction and launch in the wrong direction, breaking the dam and creating the Green Bay with the flood.

The Indian Fur Trapper latches onto the rocket with a grappling arrow and launches it at the beavers, destroying the figure.

The snowball of hundreds of beaver pelts stops at the merchant's cabin, and Jean is allowed to marry the daughter.

Filmmakers Mike Cheslik and Ryland Tews met at Whitefish Bay High School and came to collaborate on film projects.

Cheslik directed, wrote, edited, and created the visual effects for the film while Tews played the lead role.

[7] The script was a two-page treatment filled in with notecards and gag drawings and the Cheslik compared it to the screenwriting techniques of George Miller.

[13] Eric West, Daniel Long, Jay Brown, and Mike Wesolowski wore the beaver costumes.

The website's consensus reads: "Sustaining a zany premise with stylistic bravura and inspired gags, Hundreds of Beavers is a comedic gem that gives a dam.

[29] Dennis Harvey, writing for Variety, praised the film's editing as it could "milk every gag without belaboring it," the soundtrack was "equal to the visual imagination on display," and that the "ingeniously home-made lark never runs out of steam.

[30] Nick Schager, writing for The Daily Beast, declared the film "a marvel of slapstick invention" and "an overstuffed live-action homage to the golden age of animation".

[32] Joseph Johnson, writing for The Harvard Crimson, gave the film 4.5 stars and praised it as "a groundbreaking technical achievement" due to the large amounts of complex animations.

[33] Pete Volk, writing for Polygon, praised the film's visuals despite its small budget as it "nevertheless looks better than many modern blockbuster productions".