Director Mike Cheslik with Ryland Tews

I was feeling under the weather so this was perfect viewing. Wonderfully silly and inventive. I don’t imagine I caught all the influences: it had the look of an early silent movie mixed with Bugs Bunny, Charlie Chaplin, slapstick, James Bond . . . and even Monty Python’s fish-slapping dance. Shades too of Wallace and Gromit. There was a kind of a plot involving fur-trapping and beavers building a space rocket. Unforgettable scenes included huskies playing poker by a hurricane lamp each evening – the sole survivor reduced to playing solitaire as the big bad wolves picked off the team one by one each night.