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Name: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Director: Tom Shadyac
Genre: comedy, crime, mystery
Released: 1994
Duration: 1 h 26 min
Rating: 6.9

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective has an iRankMovies score of 56.6/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)

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Release:1994

Runtime:1h 26m

Country:United States

Director:Tom Shadyac

Language:English

Genre

ComedyCrimeMystery

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Keywords

Miami FloridaDolphindetectiveHuman Animal RelationshipStupidityMascotSlapstick ComedyAnimals

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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb6.9/10· 351K votes

Rotten Tomatoes48%

Metacritic37%

TMDb6.6/10· 6K votes

With 48% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.9/10 on IMDb and 37/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been modest.

About Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The Ace 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!

Cast of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Jim Carrey
as Ace Ventura
Courteney Cox
as Melissa Robinson
Sean Young
as Lt. Lois Einhorn
Tone Loc
as Emilio
Dan Marino
as Dan Marino
Noble Willingham
as Riddle
Troy Evans
as Roger Podacter
Raynor Scheine
as Woodstock
Udo Kier
as Ronald Camp
Frank Adonis
as Vinnie
Tiny Ron
as Roc
David Margulies
as Doctor

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective facts

Budget: $15M
Box office: $107.2M
Collection: Ace Ventura Collection

Our take on Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Tom Shadyac's comedy hands Jim Carrey a rubber-limbed showcase as Ace Ventura, a Miami detective who specializes in animals. The case: recovering the Miami Dolphins' kidnapped mascot and, eventually, their quarterback, a hunt that sends him underwater, undercover, and into all manner of gleeful mischief. Broad, cartoonish, and built almost entirely around Carrey's manic physical comedy, this 1994 crime spoof aims squarely for silliness rather than subtlety. It suits viewers in the mood for loud, unapologetic goofiness and 90s nostalgia, and it works best if you surrender to its absurd energy. Anyone seeking a grounded mystery should keep looking, but comedy fans will grin throughout.

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