Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls is the second film of a series that showcases the character Ace Ventura, played by Jim Carrey, who is a well known “pet detective” of missing domestic and wild animals. Throughout the film, there are rather abrupt comedic gags that interrupt the story, but does not try to take too much away from the plot. Instead, the comedic pieces move along with the narrative, and build the intensity of a scene through its absurdity rather than actual drama. First starting in tha Himalayan mountains, the story remains in underpopulated, “uncivilized” areas, that help further play into the humor later on, as Carrey faces poison darts, bats, and is called “White Devil”.
The reason this movie would be considered anarchistic is the nature of the Ace Ventura character that Jim Carrey portrays (like many of his other famous characters). He is finding new ways to call people different names (“and YOU must be the Monopoly guy! Thanks for the Free Parking”) then punching them in the face as Ace then lifts their unconscious body over his shoulders, spreading open their legs and arms while still draped over Ace’s shoulders. His over exaggerated physical humor (such as spreading his butt cheeks to mimic the George of the Jungle-type of yell from a tree, over emphasizing most of his dialogue such as one liners (“Like a glove!”), and even singing a cheery song about a car as he’s destructively driving through the jungle and singing to his passenger rather than staring at the road (“Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” scene). Even when he’s trying to go on a stakeout, it starts to get hot inside the fake rhino he’s camping out in. Because the front entrance through the mouth won’t open, he finds a small light coming through the model rhino’s “backdoor” entry, forcing him to strip naked before squeezing himself out this rubber rhino as tourists stare in horror while watching this rhino “give birth” to a human man
Michela May, Harley Fonseca, Dulce Gomez
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