Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls | Canadian First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Review | Commentary 

The beginning with the raccoon is a reference to a Sylvester Stallone movie; Cliffhanger.

The death of the poor racoon is actually a well done spoof on the opening of Cliffhanger.

My 65 year old grandmother took us to see this at the cinema back when this came out. She had to leave us in our seats as she wet herself laughing. She carried on the laughs by greeting her Bridge partners by exclaiming “Bumble Bee Tuna’… I miss her dearly…..

I'll always say that rhino bit is one of the single best bits of physical comedy ever.

Fun Fact: When Ace Ventura starts singing "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" while he's driving, that was improvised. Jim Carrey forgot his lines, just started singing instead and they used it in the movie. Also, no matter how many times I watch the rhino scene, I always end up laughing my ass off.

5:33 was a take on an episode of the Twilight Zone where William Shatner saw a monster/gremlin on the wing of the plane while in flight.

29:38 my personal theory on Ace's attitude change was that he was still emotionally and spiritually broken after his failure with the raccoon. He never fully recovered and therefore just lashed out at everyone. Childish of him, maybe but it's definitely not out of the realm of realism and possibility.

The rhino birthing scene is, to this date, the loudest and longest I’ve ever heard a theater laugh.

The thing to remember with Ace in this movie is that he's broken after the Cliffhanger spoof opening scene. He left the Buddhist temple without being fully spiritually healed 😅

Fun fact: Elephants are actually very stealthy. Their feet act as giant cushions that muffle the sound of their footsteps.

5:33 Carrey is using his William Shatner impression to reference an old Twilight Zone episode where a very young Shatner is a terrified passenger who is the only one who sees a gremlin on the wing of the plane. This episode was recreated in the 80s Twilight Zone movie, with John Lithgow as the passenger ... and then in the 90s, Shatner and Lithgow worked together on "Third Rock from the Sun" and referenced this.

Fun fact: The reason for Ace Ventura's fear of Bats, is a nod to Jim Carrey's previous film "Batman Forever" where Jim Carrey played The Riddler

Written/directed by Steve Oedekirk, creator of Jimmy Neutron and an old friend of Carrey's from 80's stand-up. Oedekirk made the batshit crazy Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, a parody of poorly translated kung fu movies that you guys should absolutely watch!

The crazy fighter Ace gets beat by is played by Tommy Davidson. Davidson and Carey both starred in the extremely funny 90's sketch show In Living Color.

Modern Monster trucks are generally just the shell of a truck or hearse on top on the wheels and everything else. So they don’t usually have working doors so the driver will usually climb in from the bottom or have a mechanism to lift the shell body up to get in or work on the rest of the truck

That rhino scene is one of the funniest scenes ever put to film. From the finger wiggling around to his face getting caught on his lower jaw I laugh every time.

Today you found out: Nitrogen is essential to the production of our food; farms use nitrogen as fertiliser. High-nitrogen bat guano is one of the highest natural nitrogen sources we've found. Guano was a very valuable resource until Daniel Rutherford discovered a way to pull nitrogen out of the air in 1772, at the age of 23.

I always sing chitty chitty bang bang every time I drive on a bumpy road because of this movie and also say "Like a glove!" When I park my car in a tight spot. Also, the chitty chitty bang bang part was improvised and also the part where he rewinds his speech confronting the villain and then repeats it. He forgot his next line and decided to do the rewind as a bit, but the director liked it so much he asked him to do it again and that's the take you see in the film.

Fun fact...Elephants are very quite stealthy and quiet when moving through even the thickest jungle.

fun fact: back on the studio tour at Universal Studios Hollywood, they would tell us a story when we came to the Psycho House. They said that one day, a tour was passing the house when a man dressed as an old woman came running out and started stabbing at people with a rubber knife. It was Jim Carrey on his lunch break.

I've never watched this movie edited down to just the really funny parts before. I've been trying to take a sip of my coffee for 10 minutes now and I can't because I can't stop laughing. And the thumbnail!! 💀💀💀

Holy crap, George! I once asked my mom while a song was playing if it was a racist song. She asked why. I said because he's singing "he's an Asian man." She corrected me.

Notso-fun fact: Jim Carrey considered this movie to have jumped the shark. He considered it to be too casually r**ist and he actually swore not to do any sequels, which he kept up until Dumber and Dumberer

Thanks George and Simone for all of the things. Tommy Davidson and Jim Carrie were former cast mates of "In Living Colour".

At 28:09 it's the cars lighter he uses. I don't think they do those anymore, but back in the day almost every car had a lighter that you pushed in like a button, and a few seconds later you could pull out the entire lighter and it'd be red-hot. It was based on electricity heating up a coiled metal band though, so it wasn't dependent on fire. That's why it's still hot when he throws it down into the consulates car.

The actor playing the poacher that Simone recognized also plays the Mouth of Sauron, thought you'd enjoy that bit of trivia.

I can never un-hear “milking the dune worm”. 😂

Glad to see you guys reacting to the second Ace Ventura so soon! The opening Racoon scene is a spoof of the opening scene from Sylvester Stallone's movie "Cliffhanger". The Airplane scene were he does his best William Shatner impersonation is from the classic Twilight Zone episode which was redone in the movie version and played by John Lithgow, and when he confronts Cadby tells him to "Repent, and thou shall be saved", he's doing Charleston Heston when he played John the Baptist in the movie "The Greatest story ever told. One last thing, when he sings the Chitty chitty bang bang song, he improvised it on the spot. I'm sure there are many other scenes he improvised as well. Alllllllllllll....righty then, secret Asian man and the lovely Simone you take care now, bye-bye. XOXO

The Rhino scene is still one of the funniest scenes I've ever seen in any movie ever. 😂

The first is definitely better. This is just an over the top comedy, but the first one is so much more. I always liked how dark it was, and it seemed rooted in reality with Ace being the absurd element. In this one, everything is just as wild as Ace in an attempt to up the laughs, but it takes away from the nuanced balance that gave the first so much charm.

Now that you have seen both Ace movies, you have attained total spiritual creaminess 😉👍

Fun Fact: The actor in the hat at 22:52 is Bruce Spence who also played the Mouth of Sauron in the Extended Edition of The Return of the King.

I wanted to see the rest of your reaction to the whole rhino scene as everyone panicks and he lets out the yell as he's "born" lol. This movie is a GEM

The first thing I remember noticing Ian McNeice in was the SciFi channel Dune movies. He was FANTASTIC in them

I cannot fathom why people think this one is better than the first one.

Well, as for him being more of a jerk in this one: I don’t think it’s fair to judge someone who’s seen a raccoon fall to it’s death unless you walked a mile in their shoes

This is my favourite of the two. The rhino scene and the monopoly guy cements that and it's endlessly quotable.

In the biopic about Andy Kaufman, the Man in the Moon. Jim Carrey stayed in character for the whole shoot., There's a great documentary about it... Some actually believe he was Inhabited by the spirit of Andy

The Air Force sent me to Okinawa for 2 weeks, and the fruit bats were basically chihuahuas with humongous wings!

When I met Ian McNeice we talked about this film and he had nothing but wonderful things to say about Jim but did mention he wasn't on all the time

When he's on the plane and says "there's something on that window....some....thing", he's imitating William Shatner in the Twilight Zone.

"milking the dune worm" xD

Me, my brother and my nephew had both this and the first movie on VHS and despite that this is the one we always came back to and quoted as kids

This is the best ace Ventura movie. I could be biased cuz I grew up watching this constantly. Tommy Davidson as the little guy he fights is classic

Love Carey's insane energy in this film. And yes, flying foxes are awesome.

28:10 That's how the body comes off on a monster truck. It lifts up so you can get in and out and work on the engine. Weird how it didn't run into any low hanging trees, though...

lol the "Cliffhanger" scene for scene parody at the beginning

"This is a lovely room of Death." I'm not a big fan of the Ace Ventura films, but this quote does nicely sump my opinion of hunter trophy taxidermy.

while still hilarious, i think many of us remember as this one as funnier than the first one because it's wackier, raunchier, and we were at an age where that combination is funniest shit in the world lmao

23:20 Yes, Bruce Spence played Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander in Legend of the Seeker. He is more well known for playing the pilot in The Road Warrior (1981), the second Mad Max movie. He was also The Mouth of Sauron in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. In the RotK director commentary, it was said that they wanted an actor like the pilot in The Road Warrior to play the Mouth of Sauron and someone said "Why not just get that actor?" And so they did.

Haha, I love how after George echoed Cadby's "show you" with the accent, Simone's response was "happy" like maid Marian from men in tights. The way she echoed it at the end of that one.

The actor who played the Newsreader in Rome was also Baron Harkonnen in a TV miniseries version of Dune and a sequel adaptation.

One of Jim's best performances is as Andy Kofman in Man on the Moon. He stayed in character the whole shoot. Andy's wife was on set as well, and said that he was exactly like Andy.

5:39 -- Shatner reference The thing with the raccoon at the beginning was a reference to Cliffhanger, which was kinda still current at the time.

I love the arrows in the leg scene, still my all time favorite gag of the Ace movies. Aside from the pocket water in the first one 😂

Jim Carrey didn't really want to make this movie. He disliked the central plot device of Ace being afraid of bats, and just didn't want to be reprising the character, but he did enlist his good friend Steve Oedekerk to write and direct it. Carrey is, as far as I know, not traditionally Method, but for the biopic Man on the Moon, in which he plays one of his comedy idols, Andy Kaufman, he did remain in character the entire shoot. They even later made a Netflix documentary about the making of the movie called Jim and Andy. It's one of his best performances and you two should definitely check it out even if you don't know who Andy Kaufman was. Must also again recommend The Cable Guy, the last remaining gem of Carrey's '90s broad comedy movies. Frankly, I think it's his best one. (And if you ever want to hear a commentary about the process, the Blu-ray of The Cable Guy has audio commentary from director Ben Stiller, producer and uncredited writer Judd Apatow, and Jim Carrey.)

First time I saw this I almost suffocated several times. I was laughing so hard lost control of my bodily functions and couldn’t breathe.

Jim Carrey actually didn't want to make a sequel, but he was contractually obligated. He's since said that while he had a fine time making it, he regrets not fighting to get out of it. He had a number of issues with the script, including not liking the "afraid of bats" angle and he was uncomfortable with the depiction of native peoples in the movie, concerned it would be offensive. I think some of this comes through in the over the top (which seems silly to even say after AV1) nature of the movie and lack of care to some details like in the first. It's funny, but not a patch on the original. Also, Carrey really wiggles his ears like that!

Before the first Ace Ventura, Jim Carrey and Steve Oedekerk (the director of AV2) made a small film together called High Strung. It is very good and nobody talk about it.

Me and my wife use so many of Ace’s sayings from this film in our everyday lives. We were backpacking around Australia and worked at Kings Canyon resort for 3 months and this film was played on the in-house TV almost every day. I’ve not watched it in years yet so many of the gags we use without even thinking about them. Great film! Bye Bye Now

"LIKE A GLOVE!!!!!" I love that quote. Honorable mentioned "Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.!"

Some bats are cute (dwarf fruit bats). Some bats are really cool (flying fox). Some are giant hairy mosquitos (vampire bats). Some look like a living nightmare (horseshoe bats).

The tall animal poacher was played by Aussie actor Bruce Spence who also played The Mouth of Sauron in The Return of the King {LOR}, quite a change of pace!

Crawling out of that rhino's ass is the hardest I've ever laughed in movie history.

There's something on the wing! is a Shatner reference and was also parodied on the simpsons tree house of horror (gremlin on the side the school bus rather than a plane)

21:20 LMFAO Stygian Dolls!

The intro is a parody of the beginning of "Cliffhanger," starring Sylvester Stallone. That's great movie by the way.

“He bends over and speaks from his rear”.. “Oh hiiim”!😂😂😂

George, you nailed it right on the head. Ace also would NEVER be afraid of an animal even a bat.

"Water tastes good!!! Glub glub glub!" 🤣🤣🤣 Poor crocodile.

The tall hunter was also in the Mad Max Films and was the Mouth Of Sauron in LoTR

"...little hot in these rhinos..." Is a line I quote to this day whenever I'm in an unusually warm room/environment.

Oh my god. I still do the limp arm run on occasion and I haven't seen this movie in almost 20 years. When you forget a movie but it was so ingrained in your childhood you can't help but imitate it!

The way Simone says “WOOW!!” in disgust 😂😂😂 @14:24

The first part of the racoon falling in the abyss is a perfect parody of Stallone's "CLIFFHANGER" movie...that scene it's exactly like it, just with some more drama.

"Pets, wild, or food" is a wild way to describe your love for an animal. 9:45

Fun fact, Jim Carrey forgot his lines; so he started singing Chitty Chitty bang bang. They kept it in :)

19:00 Ace Ventura: "Three darts is too _much!"_ Alexei Shostakov: "I can relate."

"There's someone on the wing." Makes me laugh everytime.

Simone's face during the rhino scene was worth watching this movie again!

I still know every word. I cried laughing at the scene when he’s messing around in the projector room with the slides. Better than the original, in my opinion. Soo damn funny. 😂😂😂

And the scene where Ace is imitating William Shatner is when William starred in an episode of The Twilight Zone (1959-1964) called "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet."

Aww, Simone! Feel better.😢

Love these movies. They're just so quotable. Nothing is better than a well placed, *"shhhhooooocaca."*

Someone should make a compilation of Simone's intros and George's dirty jokes.

"There's someone on the wing!" in a William Shatner impression. It refers to an old Twilight Zone episode with a man, Shatner, afraid of flying and trying to conquer his fears on a flight. He has a window seat and can see some gremlin messing with the wing-mounted engine, making it flame out.

I fell out of my seat laughing at the rhino "birth" scene in the theater! Yes, I actually had to get up off the floor. :D

the racoon's face always made me laugh so hard as a kid, i obviously knew it was fake, but something about that face was so hysterical

No joke, I was in Rivera Maya couple years ago, and the bit at 6:05, our bus driver was doing the same thing with his head! It was a gold moment and I died inside.

George is not the only one who thought it was Secret Asian man.

I forgot Steve Oedekerk made this. If you haven't watched it, Kung-Pow: Enter the Fist is a must see.

Simone with the Sword of Truth reference and George always referencing the Cosmere is awesome

The "there's someone on the wing" is a reference to a Twilight Zone episode staring William Shatner (later remade in the Twilight Zone movie and the part was played by John Lithgow). Jim did the bit in the over-the-top acting style that William Shatner is known for.

I thought the first was funnier because this was more slapstick whereas in the first he was eccentric but circumstances were more realistic. First was a movie and this was more like a cartoon.

I definitely like the first one more as well! 2nd one gets plenty of laughs, and is obviously super ridiculous if that's your thing, but Ace is more likeable and I like the interactions in there better. I'll rewatch the first any day of the week. The rhino scene though is funny every single time!

The bit with Jim Carey when he was on the plane rapidly opening and closing the curtains imitating William Shatner saying: “there’s something on the wing!” Is a reference to a Twilight Zone episode from 1963 called “Nightmare at 20,000 feet”. It stared William Shatner as a guy on a flight that sees a creature on the wing of the plane trying to sabotage it.

The opening is parodying The movie Cliffhanger feature Stallone

5:39 George, this a gag about an episode of 'The Twilight Zone' that starred William 'Captain Kirk' Shatner. It was reshot for the movie version that starred John Lithgow.

Okay "The Dot of Shame" is absolutely something George came up with, but I love it so much

When he says "There's someone on the wing" in William Shatner's voice, it's from an old episode of Twilight Zone that had Shatner in it.