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Movies that feel likeAce Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)

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.

If you loved Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, the closest films we have are O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Shanghai Noon (2000) and Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994). All three share Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls' gritty and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006).

🍅 23% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Steve Oedekerkgrittywittyplayfulepic
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)

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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 78%★ 7.7adventure · comedy · crimePrime Video

Gritty where it counts, witty underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.

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Shanghai Noon
2000 · dir. Tom Dey
🍅 80%★ 6.6adventure · comedy · western

The same mix in both: play, then scale

The difference: Leans further into western

Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.

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Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994 · dir. Peter Segal
🍅 66%★ 6.5comedy · crimeParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: slapstick comedy

The difference: Less epic, more its own thing

Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.

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Taxi
1998 · dir. Gérard Pirès
★ 7action · comedy · crimePrime Video

Gritty crime, and it commits to that

In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.

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Fantomas
1964 · dir. André Hunebelle
★ 6.9comedy · crime · adventure

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

The difference: 31 years apart, and the 1960s show

Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using an array of masks and can create endless confusion by constantly changing his appearance.

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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
2006 · dir. Michel Hazanavicius
🍅 76%★ 7crime · action · adventure

Both lean on play more than on adventure

Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to stumble into a web of international intrigue.

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🍅 54%★ 6.7comedy · adventure · crime

Epic crime in both cases

When diabolical genius Dr. Evil travels back in time to steal superspy Austin Powers's ‘mojo,’ Austin must return to the swingin' '60s himself - with the help of American agent, Felicity Shagwell - to stop the dastardly plan. Once there, Austin faces off against Dr. Evil's army of minions to try to save the world in his own unbelievably groovy way.

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Manitou's Shoe
2001 · dir. Michael Herbig
★ 6.7western · comedy · adventure

Comedy built on grit, twice over

Abahachi, Chief of the Apache Indians, and his blood brother Ranger maintain peace and justice in the Wild West. One day, Abahachi needs to take up a credit from the Shoshone Indians to finance his tribe's new saloon. Unfortunately Santa Maria, who sold the saloon, betrays Abahachi, takes the money and leaves. Soon, the Shoshones are on the warpath to get their money back, and Abahachi is forced to organize it quickly.

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White Chicks
2004 · dir. Keenen Ivory Wayans
🍅 15%★ 5.9comedy · crimeNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: kidnapping

Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. To avoid being fired they accept a mission escorting a pair of socialites to the Hamptons--but when the girls are disfigured in a car accident, they refuse to go. Left without options, Marcus and Kevin decide to pose as the sisters, transforming themselves from black men into rich white women.

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Police Story 4: First Strike
1996 · dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
🍅 52%★ 6.6action · adventure · comedy

Adventure built on wit, twice over

Hong Kong cop Chan Ka-Kui returns, working with Interpol to track down and arrest an illegal weapons dealer. Chan later realizes that things are not as simple as they appear and soon finds himself to be a pawn of an organization posing as Russian intelligence.

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Fun with Dick and Jane
2005 · dir. Dean Parisot
🍅 30%★ 6.2comedy · crime

Both lean on play more than on crime

After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty good at robbing people and even enjoy it – but they have second thoughts when they're reminded that crime can hurt innocent people. When the couple hears that Globodyne boss Jack McCallister actually swindled the company, they plot revenge.

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Big Momma's House
2000 · dir. Raja Gosnell
🍅 31%★ 5.3crime · comedyStarz

Comedy of the same temperament

When a street-smart FBI agent is sent to Georgia to protect a beautiful single mother and her son from an escaped convict, he is forced to impersonate a crass Southern granny known as Big Momma in order to remain incognito.

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