Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) movie poster

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)

"He's the best there is! (Actually, he's the only one there is.)"
ThumbScore
👍 86%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 42%
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Director
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
PG-13
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
6.6/10 (6,276 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
47%
Metacritic
37

Cast

Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura · 74% avg
Courteney Cox as Melissa Robinson · 77% avg
Sean Young as Lt. Lois Einhorn · 71% avg
Tone Loc as Emilio
Dan Marino as Dan Marino
Noble Willingham as Riddle · 76% avg
Troy Evans as Roger Podacter · 76% avg
Raynor Scheine as Woodstock · 71% avg

Is Ace Ventura: Pet Detective good?

Yes. 86% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 42%, but audiences disagreed.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#355 / 2672 · Comedy
Rank in its year
#24 / 84 · 1994
Rank among its director's films
#3 / 7 · Tom Shadyac

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The Ace 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 always gets his man… or beast! Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is a 1994 American comedy directed by Tom Shadyac, the film that launched Jim Carrey into superstardom. Carrey stars as Ace Ventura, a flamboyant, mentally unhinged Miami detective who exclusively investigates cases involving animals. When Snowflake, the Miami Dolphins' mascot dolphin, is kidnapped before the Super Bowl, and the team's star quarterback Dan Marino is also taken, Ace must use his unique skills — communicating with animals, disguising himself in increasingly absurd costumes, and annoying every authority figure he encounters — to solve the case.

Jim Carrey's performance was a tour de force of physical comedy that had no precedent in modern cinema — his rubber-faced expressions, full-body contortions, and commitment to making every entrance and exit a performance piece created a character so outlandishly energetic that audiences either loved or hated him with equal passion. The film's humor was relentlessly silly, and Carrey's ability to turn the simplest action — opening a door, shaking a hand, walking across a room — into a comedy routine was genuinely virtuosic. Ace Ventura earned $107 million worldwide on a $15 million budget.

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