An average movie

Back in the 94, Jim Carrey finally had his breakthrough with ‘Ace Ventura’ and in the same year, he also had some major success with ‘The Mask’ and ‘Dumb & Dumber’ and, seemingly overnight, he became one of the biggest movie stars in the world and 20 years later, he is still one of the most recognizable actors in the world. Through the years, Jim Carrey has wisely avoided the sequels following his starring vehicles and he did pretty good since they were all terribly underwhelming (‘Son of the Mask’, ‘Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd’, ‘Evan Almighty’). The only exception was this sequel which Carrey did just a year after making the 1st installment. Personally, I always had a weak spot for ‘Ace Ventura: Pet Detective’. Indeed, I saw it when it was released (it was actually released after ‘The Mask’ in France when it was the other way around in the USA), I must have been 14-15 years old and I thought it was actually pretty funny. Eventually, it took me about 10 years to finally see this 2nd installment but, to be honest, I didn’t like it much. I guess, the fact that I was very young help me to enjoy Ace’s first adventures but, this time, I thought he was pretty annoying, not really funny and I seriously had a hard time to care about the whole thing. To conclude, even though it was one of the very rare sequels starring Jim Carrey, it was still not really good and I don’t think it is really worth a look, except maybe if you are a die-hard fan of Carrey’s work.

5/10