Jim Carrey's “Butt Birth” Rhino Prop from 'Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls' Sells for Nearly $60,000

The buildup to it with him getting progressively hotter, the fan dying, and then cutting to him making his way out is great comedy.

Gets kinda hot in these Rhinos

55 and I needed oxygen I was laughing so hard.

I’m 39 and i agree. After seeing the unedited version a few times, i saw a different tv cut—it didn’t show him coming out, just the family’s faces as they watched, and his noises. It was *just* as funny. Something about the mystery.

Also 52, also the funniest

Charmed, I'm sure..

BULLSHIT

Ongo Gablogian would have been majestic as hell in that couch.

Shut up baby d***

DO NOT COLLECT $200

It's in the bone!!

Don't just stand there! Throw me a spear!

Any leg injury (even a stubbed toe) gets this reaction out of me to this day

Every time. Without fail. The amusement never ends!

But you gotta say it in a high pitched tone.

CHICAAAAAAAAAAGO! You, you're outta here...go on, get.

For such a silly movie, that was such a harrowing intro, so 90's.

Haha! This guy has empathy!

I said this all the time to my ex-wife..

Psst.. your balls are showing

Hey, thanks for the free parking

How selfish of me, lets do alllllll the things *yoou* wanna do.

The people in the film seeing it and being freaked out is key.

It’s hard to find a version in the US at least online where they didn’t cut the whole thing. It cuts to the family watching them him falling to the ground. 

He didn't want to take food off their families.

He got a quote for shipping and it was in the neighborhood of $10,000

it’d be great advertising for their heavier duty models

What about the Mr. Monopoly cameo?

Probably not enough connections to Star Trek either.

I like how we all know one day Mike will cross the line to decrepit elderly and will proceed to immediately laugh himself to death

I watched that video a few weeks ago and something was off. Watch the scene again and see how much space Jim Carrey has to work with while in the rhino. Then watched the tested video and see how cramped the interior of the rhino is. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8t8Ir9SeRE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8t8Ir9SeRE) Specifically look at this timestamp and see how much room he has and the camera would have: [https://youtu.be/Q8t8Ir9SeRE?t=45](https://youtu.be/Q8t8Ir9SeRE?t=45) It just doesn't add up. I bet they had a rhino interior set built for Jim Carrey to perform in. And then they had the actual rhino prop they brought onto location (the one he crawls out of). Compare the rhino in the Tested video to the actual scene. The legs don't match at all. Like the other user stated its not exactly how it appears in film. I bet the legs were restored/replaced at one point. Its common for mechanical props to be harvested for parts after filming. As for the CGI, I doubt they used any except for the scene where you see heatwaves coming off the rhino, that might have been some sort of digital effect. However, nothing in the scene screams 1995 CGI. It appears the rhino prop is attached to some device that is moving it along the ground and the legs are just moving to make it look like its walking on its own. And when Jim Carrey comes crawling out of the rhino it looks like the back two legs have been possibly replaced to give the prop more stability for when Jim comes crawling out. I could easily be wrong. The film has a lot of visual effects credits but if those legs on the rhino are truly CGI they look damn good for 1995 and the compositing is really good considering the type of tools they had back then.

This is from the prop site auction page: While shots of Ventura inside his mechanized rhino were completed on a soundstage, this full-size example measuring more than 10 feet from tip-to-tail was built solely for exterior shots of the giant mammal. It originates from Planet Hollywood. Constructed from fiberglass with hard-coated styrofoam legs, the rhino features a removable latex sheet backside, a foam latex tail, a door hatch with hydraulic hinges on one side, and additional hydraulic poles, a padded chair, a control dashboard, and a fan on the interior, much of which would have required removal for any shots in which Carrey appeared. The fan turns on when powered. A number of years after filming, the latex elements on this rhino - which had dried out since production - were replaced for display. The legs and neck, originally made from latex, were replaced with rigid, sculpted hard-coated styrofoam. As a result of this process, the head and legs - which were originally movable as seen in the butt birth sequence - are now fixed in place.

My sphincter collection grows ever mightier!

First thing that I said as well. This is a priceless piece of cinematic history.