The only Chevy Chase movie of the Nineties to open at number one, and the last of his career to do so.
Though it made $40 million in the box office, this was the most successful Chevy Chase movie of the 1990s. It was also his first hit of the decade.
There were plans to do a sequel which never materialized.
In the scene where the tribe is learning a Native American rain dance, Ben is not participating and reading a magazine next to a tree. On the back of the magazine is an ad for The Lion King, which Johnathan Taylor Thomas voiced the character of Young Simba the year before this film's release.