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  • Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
  • Opened February 4, 1994 | Runtime:1 hr. 26 min.
  • PG-13
    Language Warning
  • Information for parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 12+. Read More
  • When the dolphin mascot of Miami's NFL team is abducted, Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey), a zany private investigator who specializes in finding missing animals, looks into the case. Soon Miami Dolphins players are kidnapped too, including star player Dan Read More
  • Cast: Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox, Sean Young, Dan Marino
  • Director: Tom Shadyac
  • Genres: Slapstick, Comedy, Gross-Out Comedy

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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Recent Fan Reviews

  • Must Go!

    Awesome

    by MongrolMan

    This movie is just hilarious! You can see that this is an early Carrey flik by just how insane his character is. This one tops a lot of his later films.

  • Must Go!

    GREATEST movie!!!

    by TannerTT1997

    I know every ace Ventura part of the movie

  • Must Go!

    oh wow!

    by cliche_hannah

    I watched this movie...and fell in love with jim carrey!!! it is so stupid! but I laughed the whole time. I watch it almost everyday...its the best movie ever.

    but you kind of have to have a stupid sense of humor to enjoy it.
    like me :)

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  • 90
    Washington Post | Rita Kempley

    A riot from start to finish, Carrey's first feature comedy is as cheerfully...

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times |

    He's so over-energized from the start you keep thinking he'll wear out his...

  • 80
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Treat this project as you would a safari: It has its slow parts but the...

  • 75
    TV Guide |

    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective marks the ascendance of a new star in film farce, as...

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