Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Here we are again, with a review of the second Ace Ventura movie, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls.

 Hey, fun fact:  This is the only sequel to a Carrey movie that Carrey stars in.  Woo hoo knowledge!

Anyway, on to the film.

This movie was a semi-grossout comedy, meaning you only have the urge to vomit once or twice.... As previously stated, this is a Jim Carrey vehicle.  It falls between Batman Forever and The Cable Guy, which means it is one of Carrey's last "fan favorite" films.

So Ace is back, and the catch phrases are flying.  Seriously.  He barely goes five minutes without spouting an old one or one of the new ones from this movie.  The plot here concerns Ace, after a heartbreaking loss, being brought back into the animal saving business by Fulton Greenwall (Ian MacNiece), who works for a consulate in a made up African nation.  Y'know, if we took every made-up African nation from films and books and made them real, Africa would be like 4 times the size it is.  So anyway, Ace is in the jungle, which looks like a woodsy forest in America...because it is.  Yeah, the film was (shockingly) not filmed in Africa, but in South Carolina and Texas...because when I think of Africa, I think of South Carolina and Texas.  Still, they manage to make it look passable, and the setting barely distracts from the film...

So, then as per usual, Ace pisses off the rich and overmoneyed (they deserve it) and starts his investigation.  Ace is a shitty investigator.  Seriously.  He can find clues, but he lucks into all his big breakthroughs.  However, he is observant, when it suits the plot.

Bottom line, it's a sequel, and fairly predictable.  Worth seeing once or twice, and carried wholly by Carrey's acting abilities and comedy skills.