Fellman's Movie Reviews

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is a 1994 comedy starring Jim Carrey. It follows pet detective Ace Ventura on his unique adventures. Ace is extremely eccentric while somehow extremely competent at the same time. He finds himself caught in the middle of a high-profile kidnapping of the Miami Dolphins mascot, Snowflake the Dolphin, during Superbowl week, and goes on a quest to find it.  

Jim Carrey had three movies come out in 1994. This, The Mask, and Dumb and Dumber. This has always been one of my favorite movies. I think it’s over the top with how funny it is. It’s exaggerated like only Jim Carrey can do. I’ve said it on numerous occasions; Jim Carrey is easily the best physical comedian out there. His facial expressions. The way that he moves. He just has a natural talent that other people can’t compare with. 

But it works so well with a character like Ace Ventura. He’s so eccentric and overly energetic, it takes somebody like Jim Carrey to be able to pull that character off. Any other actor wouldn’t have the skill to be crazy enough on screen to give it enough effort to make Ace Ventura what it was. I don’t think the film would have been as successful if they had somebody else doing it. They needed somebody like Jim Carrey. Somebody who could just give it everything he had. 

I was reading that it got unfavorable reviews from critics when it came out. But then, it becomes this huge start for Jim Carrey’s career. I think movie critics rag on movies sometimes just because they think they should. I think they’re mean just for the sake of being mean. If for nothing else, just because they’re critics, and they want other people to think they know what they’re talking about. Or maybe they’re just going with what other critics are saying and are just giving a movie bad reviews because they want to seem knowledgeable about what they’re trying to critique. And I know that it’s ironic as I’m ranting about this in a movie review. But it’s my review, and I’ll do what I want… 

And I know people talk about the scene when he figures out that Einhorn is a man and how it’s homophobic and the movie didn’t age well and blah blah blah. But even Jim Carrey said about that scene, it was completely on purpose that it was so over the top. That was the entire point of the scene. And people watching it 20-30 years later and getting upset about it, don’t have a sense of humor. That’s really their fault. 

So, yeah. Go and see Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. It’s one of the funniest comedies from the 90s, and one of Jim Carrey’s best movies. I laugh raucously every time I watch it. And I’ve seen it many times. It still makes me laugh out loud. It’s just a funny movie. And as always, keep on watching, with a smile on your face…