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This article is about the character. For the 1994 film, see Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. For the baseball player, see Yordano Ventura.
Ace Ventura, Sr.
Ace with his pets
Created by
Portrayed byJim Carrey
Voiced byMichael Daingerfield (credited as Michael Hall)
In-universe information
GenderMale
Occupation
  • Pet detective
  • Adventurer
  • Hero
SpouseMelissa Robinson Ventura
ChildrenAce Irwin Ventura, Jr.
RelativesRex Ventura (father)

Ace Ventura, Sr. is a fictional character created by screenwriter Jack Bernstein, director Tom Shadyac and actor and comedian Jim Carrey. Ace was played 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 (credited as Michael Hall) in the animated television series.

Biography

Ace 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". 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. His eccentricities makes him a laughing stock to the Miami-Dade Police Department in the early part of the first movie, but eventually earned their respect after his rescue of Dan Marino and the dolphin, Snowflake.

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Main article: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

During the first film, Ace is tasked with not only finding a stolen dolphin, but also trying to prevent the kidnapping of Dan Marino from a psychopath ex-football player, Ray Finkle, bent on revenge for costing the Dolphins the game with the botched field goal. He is certain that Finkle is the man responsible, but he can't find him. Ace also learns of a missing hiker whom coincidentally is named Lois Einhorn and tries to figure out the connection she has with his suspect. Eventually, Ace not only discovers the connection that Finkle has with Einhorn, but also that they're the same person in a transgender disguise. This may infer that he had killed Einhorn and underwent a partial sex change to assume her identity. Disgusted by the truth in kissing a man, Ace spends time vomiting in the toilet, cleaning his mouth, burning the clothes he was wearing and washing his body. He tries to test his theory on Lt. Einhorn, but finds a normal feminine body and actual hair. Before Ace was about to give up, Marino secretly alerts him to a bulge sticking between her/his legs. With concrete proof, Ace makes a short humiliating speech at Einhorn while revealing to the entire Miami PD about her true motive in killing Roger Podacter, when he discovered her true gender ("He found Captain Winky!")! He proves it by forcibly turning Einhorn over to reveal the bulge sticking out of her silk panties. Everyone in the PD, including Marino and Snowflake reacts in disgust when they learned that Finkle had kissed them the same way as Ace. Now humiliated and exposed, Finkle makes his last attempt to kill Ace out of revenge, but he flips him over into the wharf. As he attempts to pull himself up, Ace steps over Finkle's hand and takes the ring which was indeed missing a stone to finalize his theory that Einhorn is no doubt the disgraced Ray Finkle. Ace begins a relationship with Miami Dolphins press officer, Melissa Robinson, while Finkle is arrested for his crimes.

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Main article: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

During the second film, Ace attempts monasticism after a failed rescue attempt of a raccoon; only to be called out of retirement to investigate a missing sacred animal, although he has a severe fear of bats. During meditation with the Abbot, he discovers Vincent Cadby who originally hired him to find the bat is the same kidnapper who wanted the war to happen so he can take control of the guano deposits there. He thwarts Cadby's plans to have the two tribes go to war and returns the sacred bat. After the marriage between the Wachati chief's daughter and Tiny Warrior, Ace is eventually hunted down by both tribes, implying he had something to do with the princess no longer being a virgin.

Family and Ace Irwin Ventura, Jr.

By the events portrayed in the third film, it is established that after resolving his case in Africa, Ace returned to Miami and started a family. He married Melissa and they had a son, Junior. But Ace has disappeared somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle, and never appears in the film itself.[1]

Development

Bernstein had wanted to do a comedic version of Sherlock Holmes, and when watching the Stupid Pet Tricks segment on Late Night with David Letterman, got the idea for a pet detective.[citation needed]

Personality

Ace Ventura is an eccentric self-styled 'pet detective' who forsook regular police work to concentrate on this latter pursuit. Like other fictional detectives, he is notable for extraordinary powers of observation and deduction; and on at least one occasion, he has managed to escape being shot by catching a bullet in his teeth.

Ventura's eccentricities include his persistent vulgarity and exceedingly flamboyant behaviour; but he is nevertheless a dedicated detective, driven by an insatiable adoration of animals and a desire to protect them from human mistreatment. In Ace Ventura, Jr.: Pet Detective, it is implied that his abilities, personality, and appearance are hereditary. Although Ace is an animal lover, the second film reveals a deep-seated fear of bats.

Ace as he appears in the animated series.

In most appearances, Ace usually wears an unbuttoned Aloha shirt over a plain white A-shirt, with red and black striped trousers and black biker boots. He lives in an apartment alongside many different animals, all of whom hide from his landlord, Mr. Schickadance, in his absence.

The Mask: The Animated Series

In the episodes "The Aceman Cometh/Have Mask, Will Travel" of The Mask: The animated series, when Milo, the pet dog of Stanley Ipkiss, was stolen by Dr. Pretorius, Ipkiss calls Ace for help. Both Ipkiss/the Mask and Ace Ventura were the animated versions of characters portrayed by Jim Carrey himself. Ace later accidentally wears the mask on his rump, which assumes a face similar to his own and gains the ability to speak, suggesting a joke featured in the original film of speaking while presenting his rump to the listener and moving it in semblance of a speaking mouth.

Reception

Ace was ranked the 60th Greatest Movie Character in a November 2008 list by Empire Magazine.[2] He was also voted one of the most annoying film characters ever in a British online poll.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Puccio, John J. (February 18, 2009). "ACE VENTURA JR.: PET DETECTIVE - DVD review". Movie Metropolis. Retrieved October 21, 2010.
  2. ^ "60. Ace Ventura". Empire Magazine. November 2008. Retrieved November 30, 2008.
  3. ^ Handy, Bruce (June 2015), "The Daring Genesis of J.J. Abrams's Star Wars: The Force Awakens", Vanity Fair, retrieved November 7, 2015
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