Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls Plot

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) is the sequel to Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994). Jim Carrey reprises his role as the title character Ace Ventura, a detective who specializes in cases involving animals. Ian McNeice, Simon Callow, and Sophie Okonedo costar and Tommy Davidson, who co-starred with Carrey on TV's In Living Color program, has a cameo.

It was written and directed by Steve Oedekerk, who had also collaborated in the making of the earlier movie. As with the original, this movie is a wacky comedy and has large amounts of silly, toilet humor (the movie title, itself, is a double entendre).

A third movie in the series, Ace Ventura, Jr., is being planned. This is Jim Carrey's only real sequel.

After failing the rescue attempt of a raccoon in the Himalayas (a reference to the film Cliffhanger), Ace Ventura has an emotional breakdown and goes on a personal soul-searching quest by becoming a Tibetan monk. However, he is soon approached by Fulton Greenwall, an African missionary working for a provincial consulate, supposedly in the country of Namibia. Greenwall asks Ventura to take a special case to find a sacred animal, Shikaka, which has become a point of contention between two tribes (the peaceful Wachati and the belligerent Wachootoo). This great white bat is a sacred animal for both the Wachati and Wachootoo tribes of Namibia. Whenever its name is spoken, the tribesmen must bow. Its name is presumably a contraction of two slang terms for feces, "shit" and "caca". The bat's guano plays a prominent role in the plot of the film. With his faithful capuchin monkey, Spike, Ace travels to Africa and returns to his pet detective work.

After arriving in Nambia and meeting with the head of the consulate, Vincent Cadby, Ace begins learning about his case as well as the possible suspects. However, when he travells to the sacred caves which had been the home of Shikaka, he discovers it is actually a rare white bat. Ace, unfortunately, has a severe case of chiroptophobia and hates bats with a passion. He then travels to the Wachati tribe village and meets the chief where he finds a further complication - Shikaka is meant as a wedding present from the Wachati Princess who is set to wed the Wachootoo Prince. If the bat is not returned in time, the Wachootoo will declare war on the Wachati tribe and no doubt destroy their peaceful neighbors. After eliminating various suspects and enduring the problems of dealing with the Wachati and the Wachootoo he finally discovers that the head of the consulate has actually taken the bat and hired Ace as his cover story. He plans to let the tribes destroy each other and take possession of their land, using the numerous bat caves containing guano to sell as fertilizer. Ace manages to thwart Cadby's plans and returns the bat to the tribes who carry out a successful marriage and stop an impending war.