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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)

PG-13 Feb 04, 1994 Comedy, Mystery, Crime 1h 26m
User Score
66%
6,020 votes
Internet Movie Database
69%
Rotten Tomatoes
48%
Metacritic
3700%

He's the best there is! (Actually, he's the only one there is.)

Overview

He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey 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!

Tom Shadyac
Director
Jack Bernstein
Screenplay
Jim Carrey
Screenplay

Part of the Ace Ventura Collection

Includes Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and other great movies.

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Top Billed Cast

Jim Carrey
Jim Carrey

Ace Ventura
Courteney Cox
Courteney Cox

Melissa
Sean Young
Sean Young

Einhorn
Tone Loc
Tone Loc

Emilio
Dan Marino
Dan Marino

Dan Marino
Noble Willingham
Noble Willingham

Riddle
Troy Evans
Troy Evans

Podacter
Raynor Scheine
Raynor Scheine

Woodstock
Udo Kier
Udo Kier

Camp

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Media

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Official Trailer
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Ace Ventura - Pet Detective (1994) Teaser (VHS Capture)
Ace Ventura - Pet Detective (1994) Teaser (VHS Capture)
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Ace Ventura, Pet Detective - Trailer
Ace Ventura, Pet Detective - Trailer
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Reviews

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A review by Andre Gonzales
Written on April 6, 2023

One of the funniest movies of all time. Still to this day, every time I watch it, I can't help but laugh. One of my favorite movies of all time....

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A review by Filipe Manuel Neto
Written on August 3, 2023

**Jim Carrey is the movie.**

Jim Carrey is one of the great comic actors of the 90's, and this film is one of those that opened the doors of stardom for him. He already worked with comedy before, of course, as an actor and stand-up artist, and he took advantage of this background to build Ace, an animal detective with eccentric habits and manners.

In general, this type of comedy is not to my liking, but I have to recognize Carrey's enormous qualities and talent. In cooperation with director Tom Shadyac (I don't know if it was the first, but there were several throughout their career), the actor did a truly inspired job that gives the film all its strength and originality. Imagining this movie without Carrey is impossible. Sure, there's a lot of exaggeration, and the rest of the cast ...

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