Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Movie • 1994 • Comedy
ReportHe's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!
This movie contains 33 potentially triggering events.
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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SpikeGreene
During a story Ace tells Melissa, he suddenly loudly barks for a brief moment. She is audibly surprised and then laughs.
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Is an animal abandoned?
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ycats333
the man in the movie loves animals. so he rescues them and takes care of them. he is looking for kidnapped animals and always has success
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Are there abusive parents?
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ycats333
the parents in the film are looking for their son.. i wouldn't call them abusive. delusional and supportive
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Is someone stalked?
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ycats333
well the whole movie the detective is trying to find who kidnapped. so he is following an entire football team, one by one
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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ycats333
there is a fight scene at the end. but the woman starts it, and holds her own
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Are animals abused?
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Technically? There’s animal hoarding and none of the animals in the film should be in the habitats they’re in. It’s played off as not harmful. In real life these animals would all kill each other and or be extremely stressed. Any owner who does anything like this is extremely irresponsible. Also, wild animals aren’t pets, dogs shouldn’t be unsupervised around small rodents and birds, and lizards need some form of basking. :)
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Is there a dead animal?
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A dead fish is in a bucket early on, presumably intended to feed a dolphin.
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Is someone drugged?
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ycats333
theres a funny scene he jumps on a mans back and looks like he chloroforms him just to look at his hand. then walks away
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Is someone held under water?
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a few scenes ppl are under water but nothing major happens
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Is someone restrained?
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Dan is restrained by Ray before she kisses him - this isn't restrainment in a sexual way.
He is restrained for quite a while - the restrainment isn't too severe, just around the waist with fairly thick white rope.
He is restrained for quite a while - the restrainment isn't too severe, just around the waist with fairly thick white rope.
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pickyourcliche
"Parody of a woman"? you transphobic trash, trans women are women.
A trans woman has clothes forcible torn off her for the purpose of proving she's trans, while she stands there humiliated.
A trans woman has clothes forcible torn off her for the purpose of proving she's trans, while she stands there humiliated.
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Are there jokes about sexual assault on men?
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ycats333
in a round about way its implied but not very graphic
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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ycats333
a cloth is held over someones mouth. but they dont asphyxiate. merely pass out
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Are any teeth damaged?
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SpikeGreene
No, but it is worth mentioning that Ace catches a fired bullet in his teeth at one point. However, his teeth are not damaged in any way, and it's played for comedy.
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Does someone break a bone?
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ycats333
someone falls off a balcony and dies. so you would assume there are broken bones. not graphic
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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a lot of crotch grabs mainly out of camera. implied uncomfortable but not mutilated. also a ventriloquist ass...
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Does someone fall to their death?
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The fall isn't shown, but the body is shown in a body bag without any trace of blood, gore or bruising. The subject is discussed first in the scene where the body is found, and then in the very next scene it's the subject of interest for everyone involved in the scene as to how he fell. The body isn't shown after the only scene it is in.
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Is there a shower scene?
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glitterpop95
Yes, but it’s not scary.
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Gross
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Does someone vomit?
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pickyourcliche
A long sequence where the protagonist spends a loooooong time trying to throw up because he kissed a trans person. Later with the big reveal that they're trans, every person in the room starts to gag and vomiting is implied. And the transphobia makes ME gag ^_^
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Does someone spit?
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Yes, (MAJOR SPOILERS) a whole group of bigoted people spit, scrub their tongues and vomit when Ace Ventura reveals a woman is a trans woman, but Ace himself misgenders her and pulls down her pants. The aforementioned bigoted people had made out with this woman. This film is extremely bigoted on the subject of trans people. Trans women are women, and to say otherwise is hate speech.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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SpikeGreene
SPOILER -- Ace himself, upon discovering is a trans woman, says she is "a man." He also deadnames her more than once. Ace's disgusting behaviour is fully glamourised by the film, not questioned once, and he does worse than only deadnaming -- see the other categories here relating to mistreatment of trans people.
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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The main character finds out that his date is transgender and gags about the fact that her kissed her in the shower
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Is a trans person depicted predatorily?
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jdpamv
A trans woman is the main villain and her sleeping with Ace Ventura is portrayed as predatory. She’s also sexually assaulted and outed by the protagonist in a way that’s glamorized and portrayed as the right thing to do.
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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SpikeGreene
SPOILER -- In front of everybody, Ace pulls down a trans woman's pants in front of a large crowd, to misgender her and mock her. It's awful and inexcusable, yet somehow the film defends it still.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Bluicidal
Ace pretends to have a mental illness so he can get into a mental institution to find more information on someone
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Mental Health
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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ycats333
i think the woman at rhe end is definitely having some flashback type of problems
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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SqueakSquawk4
It would be hard to argue with the whole "laces out" thing that Einhorn isn't a bit mentally ill. And i'm pretty sure that attempted murder counts as violence.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is there body dysphoria?
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roseswiththorns
A trans woman has her clothes ripped off, revealing she has not had bottom surgery. She is humiliated, mocked, and everyone in the room is sickened.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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There is a death which is being mistaken for a suicide at first
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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SpikeGreene
Ace once calls Melissa two fatphobic names, played off to be "funny": it's at a poolside and he calls her "fatty" and "saddlebags."
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Beaveresque
When a character is revealed to be transgender, all other characters in the film react with revulsion and disgust, and constantly misgender the character.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Anonymous
The main plot "reveal" is that the villain is a trans woman, this is met with disgust and misgendering, entirely played for laughs.
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Is there hate speech?
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Lots of transphobia, and it's clear the viewer is supposed to agree with it.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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mlle_leah
I highly discourage LGBTQI+ people to watch this movie which promotes homophobia, transphobia, sexism (and specism btw). Some scenes shows very explicit transphobia, may this movie burn in hell
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
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pickyourcliche
There is an implication of oral sex happening off screen while the protagonist acts like nobody's ever touched his peen before. It's played for comedy and isn't at all erotic, and doesn't last very long.
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Are there nude scenes?
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Jim butt shower
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Is there bestiality?
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ycats333
a man jokes he would love animals "if it got cold enough" clearly a joke. and nothing ever close to happens
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Sexism
Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
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yes. hes fake crying and he is called names, so its played for laughs
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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mlle_leah
The main character hits two police officers but they aren't hurt
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Some police are hit and at the start the bearded man (I'm not sure if he is named) is being driven into whilst he is trying to hit ace with a baseball bat
Noone dies due to being hit by a car though
Noone dies due to being hit by a car though
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Is there gun violence?
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There are guns but nobody's hurt by it
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