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User Rating:
5.1/10
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Director:
Steve Oedekerk
Writers (WGA):
Jack Bernstein (characters)Steve Oedekerk (written by)
Release Date:
8 February 1996 (Hong Kong)
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Genre:
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Mystery more
Tagline:
Most people wouldn't last one minute in the real wild nature. Ace Ventura, not even a second. more
Plot Outline:
Pet detective Ace Ventura comes out of retirement to investigate the disappearance of a rare white bat, the symbol of an African tribe. more
Plot Keywords:
Spying
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Talking Through Buttocks
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Raccoon
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Africa
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Monkey Actor
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Awards:
5 wins
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3 nominations
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User Comments:
It's Just Plain Funny
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(Cast overview, first billed only)Jim Carrey ... Ace VenturaIan McNeice ... Fulton GreenwallSimon Callow ... Vincent CadbyMaynard Eziashi ... OudaBob Gunton ... Burton QuinnSophie Okonedo ... The Wachati PrincessTommy Davidson ... The Tiny WarriorAdewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ... Hitu (as Adewale)Danny D. Daniels ... Wachootoo Witch DoctorSam Motoana Phillips ... Wachootoo ChiefDamon Standifer ... Wachati ChiefAndrew Steel ... Mick KatieBruce Spence ... GahjiiTom Grunke ... Derrick McCane (as Thomas Grunke)Arsenio 'Sonny' Trinidad ... Ashram Monkmore
Also Known As:Ace Ventura Goes to Africa
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for crude humor.
Runtime:
90 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby/ SDDS
Certification:
Argentina:13/ Australia:PG/ Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) / Canada:G (Quebec) / Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) / Chile:14/ Denmark:12/ Finland:K-12/ Germany:12/ Iceland:L/ Netherlands:AL/ Norway:11/ Peru:14/ Portugal:M/6/ Singapore:PG/ Spain:13/ Sweden:11/ UK:PG/ USA:PG-13 (certificate #34152)
Filming Locations:
777 Ranch - 1829 County Road 432, Hondo, Texas, USA
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MOVIEmeter:
3% since last week
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Company:
Morgan Creek Productions
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Trivia:
Ace Ventura fools the Chief and his son saying "Shawshank Redemption" in which Bob Gunton ("Quinn") played the Warden.
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Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When the body of the monster truck ace drives lifts up, the dashboard is just a piece of plywood with the steering wheel sticking through it.
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Quotes:
Ace:
That's a lovely fur you're wearing. Perhaps I could find you some slippers made from the skins of innocent and defenseless baby seals!
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Movie Connections:
Spoofs The Shining (1980)
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Soundtrack:
Secret Agent Man
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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful:-
It's Just Plain Funny, 22 August 2001
Author:
Ben Hunt (rexodus) from Danville, IL
Is it dumb? Well, it's definitely low-brow, but it also has some gags that
are undeniably clever. Is it racist? Yeah, a little, but it's also
satirizing old stereotypes about "Dark Africa." Is it immature and and
gross
and sophomoric and over-the-top? Yes. Yes, it is.But someone (well, me) once said the only thing comedies have to be is
funny. And this movie is dang funny. Need I remind anybody of the scene
where Ace insists on dropping a slinky down the hundreds of steps leading
up
to a Buddhist temple? ("It was RIGHT there!") Or the slideshow in which
Ace's hand appears to greedily devour a poacher's crotch? That's just
hilarious!The great thing about this movie is that it doesn't settle for outlandish
set-ups that only seem to be jokes. This movie gets full bang for its
comedic buck. Do we have a fight with a crocodile presented
in-and-of-itself
as humor? No! In a lesser film, perhaps. But Ace Ventura goes the extra
mile, bringing us childish schoolyard taunts ("Stop hittin' yourself! Stop
hittin yourself!") And is it enough to have Ace chasing the villain through
the jungle in a monster truck? No - he actually pulls up next to him and
utters a bon mot worthy of Groucho. Also, where did that monster truck comefrom?! The sheer resolve not to explain the truck's presence is a sublimely
satirical dig at movies that might place monster trucks in the jungle just
for cheap, lazy wackiness.This movie is anything but lazy. Jim Carrey, like no actor before him,
pulls
out all the stops as Ace Ventura. Is he milking things? Oh sure. He's
milking things like Paganini milked the violin, or like Michelangelo milked
the Sistine Chapel. He's inventing a manic persona so complete and fully
realized, that it transcends standard comedy and achieves something
mystical
and poetic and truthful. And that's how it keeps from being
annoying.This film is too casually dismissed because it looks like a terrible movie.
I was hesitant to watch it. But maybe, years and years from now, it will
achieve the kind of subversive cult-film status it deserves.
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