Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls Reviews

Actually, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls is not quite as bad as this summary suggests. Though that is not to say that this film is good, for me it isn't. The film does look good, it was interesting to see the likes of Simon Callow and he especially does bring some dignity and like in the first Jim Carrey does a fine job carrying the film. However the plot is very predictable and flimsy, and the direction lacks the energy and imagination of that of the first. The film also could have done with being longer consequently some of the characters lacked credibility. Also the pace is not as snappy and smart, when the humour fell flat(like it did one too many times) it felt like a balloon had been popped. The slapstick is very juvenile here, while the script is more childish than sophisticated and for me that was a bad idea. Overall, disappointing but thanks to Carrey it is at least watchable if nothing to go wild about. 4/10 Bethany Cox

Not as good as the first one. A few too many times Jim tried too HARD to be Funny. But there is the one scene that EVERYONE who saw remembers: Ace getting out of the RHINO, COOL! LOL!

Back in the 94, Jim Carrey finally had his breakthrough with ‘Ace Ventura’ and in the same year, he also had some major success with ‘The Mask’ and ‘Dumb & Dumber’ and, seemingly overnight, he became one of the biggest movie stars in the world and 20 years later, he is still one of the most recognizable actors in the world. Through the years, Jim Carrey has wisely avoided the sequels following his starring vehicles and he did pretty good since they were all terribly underwhelming (‘Son of the Mask’, ‘Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd’, ‘Evan Almighty’). The only exception was this sequel which Carrey did just a year after making the 1st installment. Personally, I always had a weak spot for ‘Ace Ventura: Pet Detective’. Indeed, I saw it when it was released (it was actually released after ‘The Mask’ in France when it was the other way around in the USA), I must have been 14-15 years old and I thought it was actually pretty funny. Eventually, it took me about 10 years to finally see this 2nd installment but, to be honest, I didn’t like it much. I guess, the fact that I was very young help me to enjoy Ace’s first adventures but, this time, I thought he was pretty annoying, not really funny and I seriously had a hard time to care about the whole thing. To conclude, even though it was one of the very rare sequels starring Jim Carrey, it was still not really good and I don’t think it is really worth a look, except maybe if you are a die-hard fan of Carrey’s work.

"Your request is not unlike your lower intestine: stinky and loaded with danger."

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls is the inevitable sequel to Jim Carrey's popular 1994 comedy film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. This sequel is even more random and hilarious than the first film...but a lot more stupendous as well. If you can imagine it, When Nature Calls is filled with laughs that are even more exaggerated than those used in the original. The filmmakers have chosen to focus less on the plot, and more on the hilarious gags.

The fairly straight-forward plot follows Ace Ventura (Carrey) who returns as our beloved Pet Detective. After an assignment goes very wrong in the Himalayas, Ventura goes into exile. That is, until he takes up his job again and flies to Africa to investigate the disappearance of the sacred Great White Bat. If Ace does not recover the bat in time it could mean civil war between the two rival tribes.

In typical Ace Ventura style, there are plenty of hilarious gags to see here (many of them being just plain disgusting), but a lot of the better ones were in the first half. Throughout the second half it seems the gags slowly lose steam, descending into nothing more than a string of highly entertaining gags that sit the film in the 'watchable' category.

If you're not a fan of Carrey and his mannerisms I suggest you stay clear. It's no wonder Steve Oedekirk was involved in this film. Even if you can't imagine it to be true, this sequel crossed the line even more than the first film. It's loaded with random, sometimes disturbing gags that make the film very enjoyable, albeit stupendous.

If you're looking for something thought-provoking and full of meaning I suggest you stay perfectly clear of this one. But if you want harmless entertainment that can be continually enjoyed, then rent this immediately.

Readers of my last couple reviews can see that I've been on a Jim Carrey streak, thanks to Netflix, and the sequel to the first Ace Venture, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, is next on the chopping block.

Again Jim Carrey stars as Ace Ventura, pet detective, who has lost the will to find pet after failing to rescue a raccoon in the Himalayas and went to become a Tibetan monk and find inner peace. But he is almost forced back in to becoming a pet detective again in order to find a great white bat that has gone missing.

Not much has changed since the first movie as Carrey isn't very funny and neither are the other characters.

The whole story is really boring and the most of the jokes are still bad sex or scat jokes.

Really the whole movie is worse then the first and again not one I would want to see again.