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Ace Ventura, Pet Detective
Film review
Carrey, a comedian whose biggest claim to fame is a number of weird characters on TV's "In Living Color," stars here as the title character, so-called because he ferrets out a living, so to speak, by rescuing stolen, kidnapped and lost pets. He also takes a vast number of them into his home, which drives his landlord nuts.
The plot has Carrey being hired by Miami Dolphins marketing director Corteney Cox to track down the team's kidnapped mascot, a trained dolphin whose absence is sure to cause the team to play poorly during the upcoming Super Bowl. (Shouldn't this film have opened a couple of weeks ago?)
Later, quarterback Dan Marino is also kidnapped, but have no fear Carrey's on the case. And, of course, Carrey and Cox begin an affair, though they seem as ill-matched as any wrong-for-each-other screen couple in the history of film. (But then, who would be right for Carrey's idiot persona?)
Carrey also has regular run-ins with the local police chief, played by Sean Young as a tough-as-nails man-eater.
Young and Cox gamely try to support Carrey's madness, but wind up looking rather embarrassed. They will no doubt be signing up new agents soon.
As for Carrey's comic style, it's very much from the Jerry Lewis school of throw-in-every-broad-gesture-possible-and-make-fun-of-everything-in-sight. But after a while, the audience may wish he'd just settle down, as his neverending silliness just gets extremely tiresome.
On the other hand, they'll probably love him in France.
"Ace Ventura" is rated PG-13, which seems awfully tame considering the amount of raunchy humor here, with gags about sex, the male anatomy and any number of vulgar subjects. There is also an abundance of profanity and comic violence.
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Cast: Jim Carrey, Sean Young, Courteney Cox, Tone Loc, Dan Marino.
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