The guilty party is indeed a member of the Dolphins team from that year, so the movie sorta spins its wheels a lot until it reaches its lame-brained twist. Ace gets a significant lead on the crime early on in the movie, when he finds a gem from a Super Bowl ring at the scene of the dolphin-napping, and realizes he just has to figure out which member of the Dolphins team from a particular year has a missing stone on their ring. Said plot is just a framework for what Roger Ebert refers to as Ace’s “weird nerdy strangeness”, which involves him wearing a tutu, staring at someone in a urinal, and trespassing on a crime scene to flippantly provide his opinion. The plot of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective concerns the kidnapping of the Miami Dolphins mascot, which is supposed to kick a football with its tail at an upcoming Super Bowl.
I’m not personally invested in it and I would never call myself a fan, but it’s kinda neat that the human body is capable of such things. Watching Jim Carrey’s acting in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, for me, is like watching Olympic swimming. His particular brand of over-the-top physical comedy doesn’t irk me as much as it does some people, and occasionally it’s actually impressive. I was lucky enough to be born after either one came out, so I wasn’t around for the heyday of the general public presumably enjoying, quoting, and discussing either of the two movies, but the simple fact of that not being universally true makes me kind of pissed off.įor the record, I’m not trying to knock Jim Carrey as an actor or a comedian. Unfortunately for me and the world at large, both Ace Ventura films were popular at the time of their release and made a shitload of money. If the movie were an obscure relic, relegated to the bargain bin of comedy history, I might be more inclined to look at it charitably. Were I in any way responsible for the genesis of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, I would probably have done the same thing. He moved out of his Los Angeles Mansion, and distanced himself from movies altogether for many years. In the 2000s, Shadyac sold most of his material possessions and donated most of the money he’d amassed during his career as a successful filmmaker. Tom Shadyac is the director of the original Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, a 1994 comedy starring Jim Carrey.
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