1994 · comedy · mystery
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Directed by Tom Shadyac1h 26m1994
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!
Our read: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive comedy · mystery entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, measured comedy / mystery, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- inventive
- intimate
- funny
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“You want peak Jim Carrey absurdity and Miami slapstick detective nonsense.”
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