Watching the film Hundreds of Beavers and a product of Shakespeare’s Henry V in the same week was something of a crash course in the suspension of disbelief.

Hundreds of Beavers (Mike Cheslik, 2022) is a slapstick comedy about a fur trapper (Ryland Tews) using ever more elaborate methods to catch beavers.

Except the beavers are people in cheap beaver costumes and much of the action was conjured up using deliberately unconvincing digital effects.

Even if we allow the excuse that it’s sup...