Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)

Most people think so. 83% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 33%, but audiences disagreed.

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. Wikipedia ↗

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls is a 1995 American comedy directed by Steve Oedekerk, the sequel to the 1994 hit. Jim Carrey returns as the eccentric pet detective, who has retreated to a Tibetan monastery after failing to save a raccoon and is lured out of retirement to investigate the disappearance of a rare white bat — the sacred animal of the Wachati tribe in Africa — whose absence could trigger a tribal war. Jim Carrey's physical comedy was pushed to even greater extremes than the original — the rhino birth scene, in which Ace emerges from a mechanical rhinoceros's rear end to the horror of watching tourists, was one of the most memorably absurd sequences in 1990s comedy.

The film's humor was broader and more slapstick-oriented than the original's mystery structure, with Carrey's improvisational energy given free rein across African locations. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls earned $212 million worldwide on a $30 million budget.