Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
Directed by Steve Oedekerk
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.
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There are animal rights messages and a few sparks of cleverness, but the bat recovery scene recalls "Pee Wee's Big Adven-ture's" snake rescue; Ace's elongation of the word "loser" ("lah-hoo...suh-her") was uttered by Louie DePalma on TV's "Taxi"; "Trading Places" originated the dubious idea of a villain receiving his comeuppance via gorilla rape; and John Waters should receive even more dubious credit for introducing the talking derriere concept in "Pink Flamingoes."
"When Nature Calls" both improves and embellishes the mean-spirited original, a movie that borrowed its twist from "The Crying Game" as it turned sexual ambiguity from something wonderful and mysterious into something silly and repugnant.
The beginning riffs on Sly Stallone's Cliffhanger: Ace (Jim Carrey) and his raccoon pal are hanging from a rock at a very high altitude when the daffy detective loses his grip on the little paw, and the ill-fated ringtail loses his life.