"Director: Steve Oedekerk"

• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective + When Nature Calls | Blu Ray | (28/10/2019) from £16.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A double bill of comedy genius Jim Carrey's most iconic roles: Ace Ventura. in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective he must track down a kidnapped dolphin mascot with the help of the team's board member Melissa (Courteney Cox). In Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls Ace is summoned by the British Consul General (Simon Callow) to recover a missing sacred bat in order to stop a war between two tribes.

• Nothing To Lose | DVD | (22/01/2001) from £7.94   |  Saving you £10.04 (202.83%)   |  RRP £14.99

  With a story that's too flimsy to support its running time, this road-mo vie comedy has plenty of problems, but at its best it's a surprisingly inspired vehicle for the clever teaming of Tim Robbins and Martin Lawrence. Robbins plays an addled advertising executive who comes home early one day and discovers his wife in bed with his boss. To make matters worse, he's later carjacked by a struggling, unemployed family-man-turned-petty-thief (Lawrence), and that's when he loses his cool completely. He takes the carjacker hostage and recruits him on a road-trip scheme of revenge against his wife and boss. Plotting to break into his boss' high-security vault, Robbins gets a criminal assist from Lawrence, but they're also on the run from another pair of would-be thieves who trail them to the vault's location. The routine plot of Nothing To Lose is occasionally limp and sluggish, but writer-director Steve Oedekerk (who makes a wacky cameo appearance as a security guard) mines comedy gold during several scenes that detour from the plot for the sake of sheer lunacy. Robbins and Lawrence have great comedic chemistry (if you can tolerate Lawrence's constant profanity), and although the movie ends on a false note with some unlikely turns of fate, it's definitely good for more than a few solid laughs. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Ace Ventura - When Nature Calls (1995) | DVD | (09/09/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  This inevitable sequel finds Jim Carrey reprising his role as the world's greatest pet detective. His latest case, the disappearance of a rare African white bat, draws him out of his spiritual retreat at a Tibetan monastery following the tragic outcome of his previous case. That traumatic experience, which makes for a hilarious opening-scene send-up of the Stallone thriller Cliffhanger, prompts Ace to venture to Africa, where he goes native with the tribe that hired him to find their symbolic bat. From that point anything goes, with Carrey pushing the boundaries of good taste (what, you were expecting good taste?) up to and including his now-infamous "birth" scene from the backside of a mechanical rhinoceros. Lighten up, and don't be ashamed if you find yourself laughing. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Ace Ventura - Pet Detective/Ace Ventura - When Nature Calls | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £7.96   |  Saving you £1.03 (12.94%)   |  RRP £8.99

  The 1994 box-office hit that turned comedy maniac Jim Carrey into Hollywood's first $20-million man, this gag-filled no-brainer stars Carrey as the titular rubber-faced gumshoe who tracks down lost pets for his heartbroken clients. Ace's latest case involves the apparent kidnapping of the Miami Dolphins' team mascot, Snowflake the dolphin. His investigation is a source of constant aggravation for Miami police lieutenant Lois Einhorn (Sean Young), who turns out to be packing more than a pistol under her skirt. Friends fans will appreciate the presence of Courtney Cox, who remains admirably straight-faced as the Dolphins' publicist and Ace's would-be girlfriend, but of course it's Carrey who steals the show with shameless abandon. Carrey's hyper antics made Ace Ventura: Pet Detective one of the bestselling videos of the 1990s. This inevitable sequel finds Jim Carrey reprising his role as the world's greatest pet detective. His latest case, the disappearance of a rare African white bat, draws him out of his spiritual retreat at a Tibetan monastery following the tragic outcome of his previous case. That traumatic experience, which makes for a hilarious opening-scene send-up of the Stallone thriller Cliffhanger, prompts Ace to venture to Africa, where he goes native with the tribe that hired him to find their symbolic bat. From that point anything goes, with Carrey pushing the boundaries of good taste (what, you were expecting good taste?) up to and including his now-infamous "birth" scene from the backside of a mechanical rhinoceros. Hey, don't be ashamed if you find yourself laughing. --Jeff Shannon

• Barnyard | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £4.25   |  Saving you £1.74 (40.94%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A carefree party cow has to find the courage to be a leader in this animated outing.

• Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls | DVD | (28/10/2019) from £7.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the deepest jungles of Africa, two tribes will fight a savage war unless a sacred animal can be found so they're sending for the only man who can help, Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey)! Ace embarks on a delicate mission from the English Consul General (Simon Callow) to help a people untouched by civilisation. Blind to fear and immune to pain Ace must gain the respect of the tribe, discover the animal within and answer: When Nature Calls!

• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective/Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls | Blu Ray | (19/09/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The 1994 box-office hit that turned comedy maniac Jim Carrey into Hollywood's first $20-million man, this gag-filled no-brainer stars Carrey as the titular rubber-faced gumshoe who tracks down lost pets for his heartbroken clients. Ace's latest case involves the apparent kidnapping of the Miami Dolphins' team mascot, Snowflake the dolphin. His investigation is a source of constant aggravation for Miami police lieutenant Lois Einhorn (Sean Young), who turns out to be packing more than a pistol under her skirt. Friends fans will appreciate the presence of Courtney Cox, who remains admirably straight-faced as the Dolphins' publicist and Ace's would-be girlfriend, but of course it's Carrey who steals the show with shameless abandon. Carrey's hyper antics made Ace Ventura: Pet Detective one of the bestselling videos of the 1990s. This inevitable sequel finds Jim Carrey reprising his role as the world's greatest pet detective. His latest case, the disappearance of a rare African white bat, draws him out of his spiritual retreat at a Tibetan monastery following the tragic outcome of his previous case. That traumatic experience, which makes for a hilarious opening-scene send-up of the Stallone thriller Cliffhanger, prompts Ace to venture to Africa, where he goes native with the tribe that hired him to find their symbolic bat. From that point anything goes, with Carrey pushing the boundaries of good taste (what, you were expecting good taste?) up to and including his now-infamous "birth" scene from the backside of a mechanical rhinoceros. Hey, don't be ashamed if you find yourself laughing. --Jeff Shannon

• Kung Pow - Enter the Fist | DVD | (20/01/2003) from £15.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (12.51%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A shamelessly low-brow parody, Kung Pow: Enter the Fist is a scrambling of footage from the 1975 Hong Kong martial arts epic Tiger & Crane Fist with new material shot by director Steve Oedekerk (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls) in which he doubles for original star Jimmy Wang Yu. Following the style set by Woody Allen in What's Up Tiger Lily?, Oedekerk also dubs all the voices, rendering the basic revenge story even more formulaic and ridiculous. The villain turns out to be working for flying saucers manned by French aliens (!) and the Chosen One hero has an odd habit of using animals as weapons (gopher nunchakas, squirrel padding) and, in the stand-out scene, doing a full-on Matrix/Crouching Tiger battle with an extremely agile killer cow. A lot of the film is just dumb, but it still manages to beat laughs out of you with its relentless goofiness. Though it might seem an ego trip for Oedekerk, he is actually a likeable leading man, pulling funny faces and deliberately dubbing even his own voice badly. On the DVD: Kung Pow: Enter the Fist on disc includes an animated draft of the kung fu cow scene, with special effects elements shown pre-mixing. There are also several deleted sequences and a director's cut of one extended fight scene. --Kim Newman

• Ace Ventura Triple | DVD | (11/07/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Titles Comprise: Ace Ventura Pet Detective: He's the best there is. In fact he's the only one there is! He's Ace Ventura Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover under fire or underwater he's always gets his man..or beast! Ace Ventura When Nature Calls: Africa's the place and Ace is on the case setting out to rescue an animal he loathes - a bat! Jim Carrey returns as Ace the alligator-wrasslin' elephant calling monkeyhining loogie-launching burning coals-crossing disguise-mastering pet detective. If you're ready to laugh like a pack of hyenas if you want more fun than an industrial-sized barrel of monkeys you know what to do: heed the call! Ace Ventura Jnr Pet Detective: I will try to be normal 12-year-old Ace Ventura Jr. promises. That's cool except what's normal for him is finding missing mutts kidnapped kitties or gone gators and creating hilarious chaos every step of the way. Like father like son its in his nature to be a pet defective detective! And when a zoos baby panda is stolen and Aces mom is Suspect #1 our young hero sets out to clear the family name. Its a new generation of family fun and goof-brained comedy panda-monium as Ace Ventura Jr. (Josh Flitter of Nancy Drew and License to Wed) teams with adventurous girl-next-door Laura (Emma Lockhart) and nerdish gizmo-wiz A-Plus (Austin Rogers) to chase down leads and laughs. Ready for fun? Allriiiighty-then. Ace - Ace Jr. is on the case!

• Thumb Wars | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £31.55   |  Saving you £-21.56 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Thumb Wars is a parody of Star Wars in which all the characters are played by real human thumbs with equally real human eyes and mouths grafted onto them through the wonders of computerised image tweakery. Obvious, really. If you're a fan of the toy and puppets dramas on The Adam and Joe Show or, frankly, even if you're not, you'll love this. Quite apart from the inherent wonderful silliness of mastermind Steve Oedekerk's creations, the mickey-taking is of a high order as Loke Groundrunner, Hand Duet and Princess Bunhead, aided by Oobedoob Benubi, battle the forces of the evil Thumbpire (the stormtroopers wear thimbles) in order to destroy the "big dangerous weapon thing that can blow stuff up". Along the way, Luke and Oobedoop replay Bunhead's holographic message while lying on the floor so they can look up her dress, the two robots have sex and Hand Duet insists on being paid in girly giggles. The eventual destruction of the "big dangerous weapon thing" will have you in stitches, with Groundrunner attempting to use "the power of the Thumb" while the spirit of Oobedoob urges him to "use the instrument panel, Luke--that's what it's there for". --Roger Thomas

• Kung Pow - Enter The Fist/Bulletproof Monk/Kiss Of The Dragon | DVD | (05/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bulletproof Monk (Dir. Paul Hunter 2003): 'Bulletproof Monk' begins in the 1940s as a Tibetan Buddhist monk charged with protecting an ancient scroll passes on his legacy to his pupil. As the student receives the power to safeguard the scroll his aging process is halted and he gives up his name only to be known as the Monk (Chow Yun-Fat). Suddenly the monastery is raided by Nazis led by the ruthless Strucker (Karl Roden). As they attempt to seize the relic the Monk is shot and falls off a cliff taking the scroll with him... However six decades later the Monk appears in America and crosses paths with Kar (Seann William Scott) a tough city kid with a talent for picking pockets. Together the unlikely duo must contend with the forces of the now-elderly Strucker still determined to possess the mystical scroll. As Strucker's granddaughter Nina (Victoria Smurfit) leads his thugs to track down Kar and the Monk the two heroes receive help from the mysterious Jade (Jaime King)... Kung Pow: Enter The Fist (Dir. Steve Oedekerk 2002): Writer/Director Steve Oedekerk kicks the karate film genre up a notch by inserting new scenes new dialogue and himself into an obscure Hong Kong chop-socky flick from the '70s. The result is ""ridiculously funny and must be seen to be believed!"" (Slant Magazine) In order to avenge his family's death a legendary warrior named ""The Chosen One"" (Oedekerk) wanders the countryside in search of the murderous Master Pain also known as Betty. Filled with fist-flying action incredible special effects and outrageous kung foolishness this martial arts mockery delivers knockout laughs from beginning to end! Kiss Of The Dragon (Dir. Chris Nohon 2001): China's top secret agent visits Paris on a pleasure trip only to encounter government espionage at the highest level...

• Kung Pow - Enter The Fist / Dude Where's My Car / Austin Powers - International Man Of Mystery | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Kung Pow: Enter The Fist: In order to avenge his family's death a legendary warrior named The Chosen One (Oedekerk) wanders the countryside in search of the murderous Master Pain also known as Betty. Filled with fist-flying action incredible special effects and outrageous kung foolishness this martial arts mockery delivers knockout laughs from beginning to end! Dude Where's My Car? Jesse (Ashton Kutcher) and Chester (Seann William Scott) got really wasted last night. The fridge is packed with pudding their girlfriends - The Twins - are ticked off and somehow Jesse's car has disappeared. So the hapless stoners set out to find the car which happens to have their girlfriends' anniversary presents in it. But they soon discover that losing the car isn't half the story. High school hottie Christie (Kristy Swanson) is mysteriously hot for Jesse Chester is a favorite customer at the local topless club and they owe a suitcase full of money to a transvestite stripper. On top of all that they're being pursued by a minivan full of geeks horny space babes and a couple of totally gay Scandinavian dudes - all trying to find the continuum transfunctioner the device that can save or destroy the universe... Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery Frozen in the 60's secret agent Austin Powers (Myers) is thawed back into action to once again battle his archenemy Dr. Evil. With his sexy sidekick Ms. Kensington (Liz Hurley) Austin must stop Dr. Evil's outrageous plot to control the world. But first this time-warped swinger must get hip quick and discover that there's no free love in the 90's...

• Thumbwars - The Phantom Cuticle | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Every Hand Has A Thumb... Created by Steve Oedekerk the writer of The Nutty Professor Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls and Patch Adams this hilarious ""thumbation"" spoof features reluctant hero Loke Groundrunner and his tasty companion Princess Bunhead as they try to stop Black Helmet Man and the Evil Thumbpire from doing really bad things! So hold onto your cuticles eat your peas and get ready for the first and only all-thumbs space epic. May the thumb be with you!

• Nothing To Lose | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In a remote Italian village rife with ignorance and superstition several young boys are murdered. Suspicion falls on a beautiful blonde newcomer to the village but when a hard-nosed reporter and a promiscuous young woman search for the true killer they discover a motive even more shocking than the crimes themselves.