Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

"New animals. New adventures. Same hair."

1995 1h 30m EN

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★6.3TMDB · 4,736

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Synopsis

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Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.

“New animals. New adventures. Same hair.”

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Cast

Jim Carrey
Ace Ventura
Ian McNeice
Fulton Greenwall
Simon Callow
Vincent Cadby
Maynard Eziashi
Ouda
Bob Gunton
Burton Quinn
Sophie Okonedo
The Wachati Princess
Tommy Davidson
The Tiny Warrior
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Hitu

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Steve Oedekerk
Writers: Steve Oedekerk
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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90 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Made its money back 7.1× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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31 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Ace Ventura Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

CAST

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493+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Steve Oedekerk, shot by Donald E. Thorin. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Robert Folk. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Malcolm Campbell shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Steve Oedekerk directs. Donald E. Thorin behind the camera. Robert Folk scores. Malcolm Campbell cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

190 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Made its money back 7.1× over at the box office.
331 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
4Part of the "Ace Ventura Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5493+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
6Directed by Steve Oedekerk, shot by Donald E. Thorin. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Robert Folk. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Malcolm Campbell shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Jim Carrey and Ian McNeice and Simon Callow carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "New animals. New adventures. Same hair.".
11IMDB entry: tt0112281 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 10 themes, including "kidnapping", "africa", "indigenous", "human animal relationship".

The technical file

Cinematography: Donald E. Thorin
Original score: Robert Folk
Editing: Malcolm Campbell
Production design: Stephen J. Lineweaver
Costume design: Elsa Zamparelli
Makeup / hair: Jay Cannistraci
VFX supervisor: Wally Schaab
Sound: Steve Maslow
Stunt coordinator: J.J. Makaro
Runtime: 90 min · 1h 30m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $30,000,000
Box office: $212,385,533
Return: 708% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)

Awards

Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Movie

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Part of

Ace Ventura Collection

A comedy film series featuring Ace Ventura, an eccentric Miami-based private detective who specializes in retrieval of tame and captive animals.

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Steve Oedekerk

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Andre Gonzales2023-04-06
★ 5/10
Not any where as good as the 1st. It was ok. Not as funny. I guess I just didn't like the whole jungle theme.
Filipe Manuel Neto2023-08-12
★ 3/10
Uninteresting, the film is only not worse thanks to Jim Carrey. Personally, I liked the first movie. Jim Carrey is a force of nature and almost always manages to surprise us with his crazy things. Unfortunately, this film is inferior, much inferior, and in good part due to the poor level of comedy, which abuses sexual and scatological humor to make jokes, increasingly predictable and unfunny. I really think that the film's problem is in the script, a piece of garbage that shouldn't have been used for anything other than a good bonfire. Another problem is the departure of Tom Shadyac and the replacement by Steve Oedekerk, a director who is incapable of having the same creativity and comic spirit. These two problems doomed the film. Jim Carrey turns out to be the least guilty. He continues to be a huge actor and carries the entire film on his shoulders with a panache and ability that is difficult to match, as far as comedies are concerned. I think he embarked too much on easy humor, he let himself go down a less friendly and less familiar path than would be desirable, but even so, he deserves a positive note. Simon Callow is the only supporting actor to earn a good grade, with the rest being average. Technically, the film is poor. The sets and costumes are predictable and not pretty, the recreation of the African environment has aromas of falsehood (as if we were watching a school theater play and not a big budget film) and the effects are poor. The amount of animals involved is remarkable, and the animals deserve all the attention as they are, almost, actors in their own right.