One of the best comedies with Jim Carrey is currently available on the Netflix platform so don’t deprive yourself of it!
Discover or rediscover on Netflix Ace Ventura, dog and cat detective, directed by Tom Shadyac and one of the hit comedies of the 90s, which helped launch the Hollywood career of Jim Carrey.
As the title suggests, Ace Ventura is an outspoken animal advocate, recovering abducted dogs, stray cats, and stolen canaries. When he is contacted by a certain Melissa (Courtney Cox) to find “Snowflake”, a dolphin mascot of the Miami American football team, his troubles begin.
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Ace Ventura is a bit like the “Jim Carrey Show” for 1h30. The comic actor participates in the scenario and competes with grimaces, body elasticity and gravelly humor to get the laughter of the spectators and offer himself a monumental business card, because this is his first feature film. headlining.
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From the introductory scene with a delivery man destroying the fragile package he has to deliver, the tone is set: we are in front of a comedy that will go against the grain. The cult moments follow one another, from the sequence of the psychiatric hospital to that of the bay window, passing by the reception given by Mr. Camp (Udo Kier), the film is simply irresistible.
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Be careful though, because Ace Ventura dates from 1994 and nearly thirty years later, we cannot say that his humor has always aged well. Witness a clearly transphobic sequence located towards the end of the film, as well as a scene of homophobia which will disturb today much more than at the time.
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Still, in the United States, Ace Ventura was the first of Jim Carrey’s three films to be released in 1994. It was released on February 4 and immediately became a hit with 107 million dollars reported. The actor then plays in The Mask (July 29) and Dumb & Dumber (December 16), which collect 351.5 and 247 million respectively. Considering the small budgets, including for The Mask, which cost “only” 23 million, all are triumphs.
Ace Ventura will have a sequel set in Africa, but there will also be an animated series and an adventure of Ace Ventura Jr. Ace Ventura in Africa is also available on the Netflix platform, and it pushes the sliders even further !