Rubber-faced comedian Jim Carrey returned to the screen as the hyperkinetic sleuth from the previous year’s hit Ace Ventura, Pet Detective.
Ace’s newest adventure found him in the jungles of Africa on the trail of the stolen Shikaka – the sacred great white bat of the Wachati tribe. If he fails, there will be a tribal war between the Wachati tribe and the Wachootoo tribes.
The Wachati show their affection by spitting, and Ventura noisily demonstrates that he’s really affectionate. He also helps a hungry chick by vomiting into its mouth. And in the most disgusting but amusing scene of all, a stunned group of tourists watch as a rhino gives birth to a fully-formed Ace.
Sadly, it isn’t only the geography which is sprawling. So is the anorexic script. With such a thin storyline, this movie is Jim Carrey, the whole Jim Carrey and nothing but Jim Carrey.
The man still suffers from verbal diarrhoea and as Ace fans know, one orifice isn’t enough to talk from. You always know what you’re going to get with Jim Carrey!
Ace Ventura
Jim Carrey Fulton Greenwall
Ian McNeice Vincent Cadby
Simon Callow Ouda
Maynard Eziashi Burton Quinn
Bob Gunton Wachati Princess
Sophie Okonedo Tiny Warrior
Tommy Davidson Hitu
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Wachootoo Witch Doctor
Danny Daniels Wachootoo Chief
Sam Phillips Wachati Chief
Damon Standifer Mick Katie
Andrew Steel Gahjii
Bruce Spence Derrick McCane
Tom Grunke
Director
Steve Oedekerk
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