Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
- Before Jim Carrey was cast, several major A-list stars turned down the lead role because they felt the script was too risky.
- During the filming of Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Jim Carrey improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
- The original script for Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls was written over a decade before production finally began in 1995.
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 โ the sacred animal of the Wachati tribe in Africa โ whose absence could trigger a tribal war. Jim Carrey's physical comedy was pushed to even greater extremes than the original โ 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.
