Ace Ventura Jr.: Pet Detective

Ace Ventura Jr.: Pet Detective (2009)

  • 56% of users liked it
    (32,663 ratings)

Morgan Creek revives the series that launched Jim Carrey to superstardom with this comedy concerning the offspring of everyone's favorite wisecracking wildlife sleuth. His mother wrongly arrested for kidnapping a baby panda, Ace Ventura's seventh-grade son determines to follow in his… More

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Mar 1, 2009 Wide
Morgan Creek Productions

Critic Reviews

  • Kevin Carr, 7M Pictures

    It's really a kids' movie at its heart. And if you watch it with that in mind - as a film made for the Nickelodeon crowd - you'll see that it fills out rather nicely

  • Rory L. Aronsky, Film Threat

    It's disappointing that this is the next, and most likely final step of the Ace Ventura franchise.

  • Nancy Davis Kho, Common Sense Media

    Funny, animal-loving kid lost in crude script.

  • Brian Orndorf, BrianOrndorf.com

    Ace Ventura Jr.: Pet Detective is a loathsome, exceedingly unfunny continuation of a once rewarding film series...a terrible motion picture, scraping the bottom of the barrel.

  • John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis

    If I were a kid, I might like it. But I'm not a kid, and I didn't.

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  • Luke B


    Somewhere in Hollywood lives an evil genius and his grand plan is to make sequels to every Jim Carrey movie...WITHOUT Jim Carrey. If that wasn't bad enough this film replaces Jim with some fat, irritating child AND suggests Ace died. "Respectful" is not a word in this… More

  • Panta O


    This KIDS MOVIE (also known as Ace Ventura Jr. and Ace Ventura 3) is actually a telefilm designed for a kids network and is not suitable for adults! Please, remember this when you watch it! I could not stand the bad screenplay, bad acting, and the director who made the third… More

  • Aurelius D


    Complete crap. It's like the people that did the first and second forgot what the movie was like. Not to mention this new idea of making movies straight to DVD being prequels or sequels is a really trashy idea. It's like they figure "How can I exploit an already… More

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