Mel Gibson is Walter, a profoundly depressed CEO of his father's toy company who is barely able to speak. After his wife kicks him out, he comes across a beaver puppet in a dumpster and takes it with him for some reason. After a long night of drinking and failed suicide attempts, he awakens and begins using the beaver to communicate on his behalf. The beaver frees him to communicate like he previously could not and he is soon seemingly his old self - albeit with a puppet attached to his arm. Things don't just work out perfectly though but you'll need to see the rest of the movie for that. Anyway, other than it being a reaaaaaaallllly tough-to-accept premise (like a company would allow a dude with a puppet on his hand to have any kind of input as CEO) and having some other weirdness (Mel & Jodie Foster gettin' it on while he's wearing the puppet), there's a lot to like here. Some moving stuff and a nice subplot involving the teenage son. Anyway, this is isn't great but it was entertaining. I'll say 6/10, maybe 6.5. Definitely not up to the Tabedoza line of 7.
As for Jennifer Lawrence? She's really good in a small role as the love interest of the teen son.
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