Ace Ventura - an animal detective

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Movie
German title Ace Ventura - an animal detective
Original title Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1994
length 83 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Tom Shadyac
script Jack Bernstein ,
Jim Carrey
production Gary Barber
music Ira Newborn
camera Julio Macat
cut Don Zimmerman
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Ace Ventura - Pet Detective is an American feature film of the genus comedy from the year 1994 . It was directed by Tom Shadyac and written by Jack Bernstein and Jim Carrey . The main roles were played by Jim Carrey and Courteney Cox .

The film established Jim Carrey's popularity and was continued with the film Ace Ventura ( 1995 ). In 2009 a second sequel entitled Ace Ventura 3 - The Animal Detective was released directly on DVD. The director took David M. Evans . Jim Carrey does not appear again in the film.

action

The private detective Ace Ventura is looking for missing animals. One day he is assigned to find the missing mascot of the Miami Dolphins football team, Snowflake . The owner of the Miami Dolphins is threatening administration chief Roger Podacter and employee Melissa Robinson that they will be fired if the dolphin does not return by the Super Bowl in two weeks, because otherwise his superstitious players would be without a chance.

The police, who were also investigating, let out the water from the dolphin pool. Ventura finds a small red amber in the shape of a triangle as the first trace in the filter system of the pool and later finds out that four of them were set in a championship ring that all players of the 1984 Dolphins team had received. Immediately he set about getting close to all the players of that time and checking their rings on their hands, which he succeeds in doing without finding a ring with a missing amber. From Emilio, a trusted police officer, he learns that the police investigations have not continued either.

When Podacter fell to his death from his balcony, Ventura was able to use the simplest of conditions to inform the police officers present and their suicide boss Lt. Lois Einhorn explain that it is a murder. Ventura suspects a connection with the kidnapping of the dolphin.

Then he discovers a master photo with another player. Robinson explains to him that Ray Finkle only joined the team in the middle of the season and is therefore not shown in the earlier photo Ventura followed. In addition, Finkle had awarded the possible decision in favor of the Dolphins at the last second in the Super Bowl final. Finkle was released afterwards and is said to have returned to his homeland. Ventura learns from his parents that Finkle was in a mental hospital and disappeared from there eight years ago without a trace. They were supposed to pick up his personal belongings from there, but have not yet done so. Finkle blamed his teammate Dan Marino for failing because he held the football with the seam on the inside instead of the outside. In Finkle's room, Ventura discovers slogans of anger and revenge against Dan Marino. Over the phone he instructs Robinson to arrange for police protection for Dan Marino, but she arrives seconds too late - Marino is also kidnapped.

Ventura teaches Einhorn in their office about his theory of a Vengeance campaign by Finkle against his former team and that he believes Finkle is behind all three cases. Thereupon the police chief, who otherwise disapproves of him, begins an aggressive flirtation with him, which the animal detective does not reciprocate.

Ventura has Robinson admit her to the mental hospital as a possible future patient and finds a newspaper in Finkle's remains with a report about a missing hitchhiker named Lois Einhorn. At home there is a message from Emilio on the answering machine that he has discovered a message from Podacter on Einhorn's desk in which he thanks for a nice evening with Einhorn and is looking forward to the next one. Ventura finds the solution that Ray Finkle and Lois Einhorn are identical. He attaches himself to Einhorn's heels and ends up in the boathouse of a yacht club, where Dan Marino is tied up and the dolphin swims in the water. Ventura can knock out the kidnappers, criminals covered by Einhorn for helper services, but is provided by Einhorn, requests the police reinforcement and Ventura is now charged with the kidnappings and the murder. When the entire police arrive, Ventura is able to knock the pistol out of Einhorn's hand and win a fight with her. Einhorn calls on the police officers to shoot Ventura, but Robinson arrives with Emilio, who is playing their hostage, and tells the police officers to put their weapons on the ground. Now the animal detective tries to prove his theory to the police by tugging at Unicorn's hair, tearing up her blouse and pulling down her pants - but without success until Dan Marino, who is behind her, points out that Unicorn's male genitals are caused by the crotch are bent backwards. Ventura explains to the police that Podacter discovered the secret and therefore died. From Unicorn's hand he pulls a master ring with a missing amber.

The dolphin and Dan Marino arrive at the stadium just in time to entertain the spectators for the half-time break and to play for the second half of the Super Bowl.

Reviews

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the idea of ​​the film would be suitable for a half-hour television show. The “stretched” film disappoints, the plot is “superfluous” and most of the time nothing useful happens.

“A genre parody about a private detective for stolen pets, which is not dramatically convincing. Anyone who wants to get involved in the low level of the film makes the acquaintance of a talented comedian. "

Awards

Jim Carrey won for his role film awards Blockbuster Entertainment Award , London Critics Circle Film Award and Kids' Choice Award ; he was nominated for the MTV Movie Award and for the Golden Raspberry .

Ira Newborn won the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Award in 1995 .

backgrounds

Production costs were estimated at 12 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 72.2 million in US cinemas.

Recordings of Uwe von Schamann , the German-born kicker of the Dolphins from 1979 to 1984, were used in the film for the character of Finkle.

In the hardcore club Ace joins, the band Cannibal Corpse plays the song Hammer Smashed Face from their album Tomb of the Mutilated , which is indexed in Germany due to the explicit cover.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Film review by James Berardinelli, accessed June 20, 2007
  2. Ace Ventura - An animal detective. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. Box office / business for Ace Ventura - An Animal Detective, accessed June 20, 2007