Fellman's Movie Reviews

Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls is a comedy starring Jim Carrey. It is the sequel to Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. After losing a raccoon in a “Cliffhanger” parody opening sequence, Ace finds himself in a monastery in Tibet. A man named Fulton Greenwall comes to find Ace to help him find a missing bat for the Wachati tribe in Africa. Ace also makes contact with the Wachooto tribe, who are looking for the sacred bat as well, and will go to war with the Wachati’s if they don’t find it.  

I like the first one better, but this one is still a hilarious movie. No matter how many times I watch this movie, I will never get over “white devil” part when they get to the Wachootoo tribe. It never stops being funny. The whole script is so well written. And the funny part is, it’s not even like it’s conversational dialogue. It’s mostly just the things that Ace is saying and the way that Jim Carrey delivers it that make it so funny.  

And once again, the physical part of Ace Ventura is a huge part of what makes the movie. The way that Jim Carrey moves can’t be done by anybody else. The way that he moves his arms when he’s supposedly going numb when the darts hit him in the forest. There’s no other actors that could do that the way that he did it. And the rhino scene. I don’t think any other actor could make the faces that he made coming out of that rhino. It just couldn’t be done by anybody else.  

I’m such a huge fan of the opening scene with the raccoon, too. How they parody Cliffhanger like that. Because the look in the raccoon’s eyes is priceless. Like, it sees the hook breaking. And they zoom in on its face. And the camera does that real close-up on just the eyes of the raccoon and it’s eyebrows are raised in excitement. It’s anthropomorphizing the raccoon in real time. It’s one of my favorite opening sequences of a movie, ever.  

But I could sit here all day and pick out scenes that I love about this movie. It’s better for you to just go and see it yourself. So, yeah. Go and see Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls. You’ll be happy you did. And if you’re not, well, that’s your fault, and you’re wrong. And as always, keep on watching, with a smile on your face…