Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)

  • 45% of critics liked it
    (51 reviews)

  • 57% of users liked it
    (31,687,365 ratings)

When your dog, bird, or water-dwelling mammal disappears, who do you call? Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey) is a low-rent private eye who specializes in recovering lost animals, so when Snowflake, the Miami Dolphins' aquatic mascot, is kidnapped, team representative Melissa Robinson (Courtney Cox) puts… More

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PG-13,
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Genres
Action & Adventure, Comedy
In Theaters
Jun 1, 1993 Wide
Warner Bros. Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

    Carrey suggests an escaped mental patient impersonating a game-show host.

  • Michael Sragow, New Yorker

    [Carrey's] comic language is made up of accent marks, not characters; instead of inhabiting a scene, he swallows it up and spits it out in manic doodles.

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    Unlike famous bumbling sleuths such as Inspector Clouseau and Lt. Frank Drebin, there's no consistency to the "Ace" character, and the whole movie shifts in tone from social satire to sophomoric pranks and traditional copshow plotting.

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    The most obnoxious case of masculine swagger since Andrew Dice Clay, with just a tad of Paul Lynde thrown in for spice, Jim Carrey defies you not to bolt for the exit.

  • , Time Out

    Desperate stuff.

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  • Bruce B


    This was Jim Carrey's first official role and launched his brilliant career. He stars as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. "He's the best there is. Actually, he's the only one there is." The mascot of the Miami Dolphins "Snowflake the Dolphin" has been… More

  • Alice S


    LACES OUT! EINHORN *IS* FINKLE! FINKLE *IS* EINHORN! AAAAAAAA.......AAAAAAAA.......AAAAAAAA!

  • Film C


    Well its entertaining i dont think its as funny as the second and these arent the best movies in the world, just silly light hearted movies to laugh at!

  • Cassie H


    Jim Carrey ROX!!!!!!!!!!! (:

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