It is not known whether the animated television series was contiguous with the feature-films, but if it was it may take place before them because the only one of his pets to appear in the series is his capuchin monkey, Spike. Ace was performed by Jim Carrey in the films Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, released in 1994, and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, released in 1995, and was voiced by Michael Daingerfield in the Ace Ventura: Pet Detective television series.Īce is a Miami-based private detective specializing in the retrieval of missing animals, the son of Rex Ventura and descendant of such as ' Ernest Ventura Shackleton' and ' Jacques Ventura Costeau'. Her Einhorn is the kind of role that makes it even clearer why she fought so hard for a shot at Catwoman.Ace Ventura is a title character created by screenwriter Jack Bernstein. Supporting players Cox, Warhol alumnus Udo Kier as mysterious billionaire Camp and rapper Tone Loc as a sympathetic cop have little to do but watch Carrey riff, while Young grimaces and growls as she is subjected to an endless barrage of indignities. Unfortunately, there are too few to fill out the film’s 90-plus minutes. Best gags involve Ventura’s menagerie-packed apartment and animal-like qualities, including high-revved senses of taste, smell and sexual appetite.

Pic scores points for its peppy, unpretentious quest to wrest laughs out of less than sparkling material. “Ace” is briskly paced and graced with Carrey’s ceaseless energy and peculiar talents, such as the ability to act out a football play in slow motion and rewind.

Frank Drebin, there’s no consistency to the “Ace” character, and the whole movie shifts in tone from social satire to sophomoric pranks and traditional copshow plotting as Ventura sets out to solve the mysterious kidnapping of the Miami Dolphins’ lovable dolphin mascot, Snowflake.Īlong the trail he befriends and beds the Dolphins’ beautiful flak (Courteney Cox), perplexes top cop Einhorn (Sean Young) who’s trying to break the case, and stumbles on to a nefarious revenge plot that involves Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino and a mythical Super Bowl misplay of the past. Unlike famous bumbling sleuths such as Inspector Clouseau and Lt.

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