Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

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 Ace ...more

The film that marked Jim Carrey's graduation from TV sketch comic to box-office phenomenon, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective had such surprising widespread appeal that it even won over many of those who shook their heads at Carrey's manic antics on Fox's In Living Color. He's none too subtle here, quite literally talking out of his butt ("Do you mind if I ass you a few questions?" is a typical groaner), but his hyperactive willingness to go above and beyond for the laugh soon became Carrey's ...more