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Morgan Creek revives the series that launched Jim Carrey to superstardom with this comedy concerning the offspring of everyone's favorite wisecracking wildlife sleuth. His mother wrongly arrested for ... read more read more...kidnapping a baby panda, Ace Ventura's seventh-grade son determines to follow in his father's footsteps by catching the real culprit. Sibling scribes Jason and Justin Heimberg collaborate with Jeff Sank and David Mickey Evans (The Sandlot) on a screenplay directed by Evans . ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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PG, 1 hr. 33 min.

Directed by: David M. Evans, David Mickey Evans

Release Date: March 1, 2009

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  • January 30, 2010
    Somewhere in Hollywood lives an evil genius and his grand plan is to make sequels to every Jim Carrey movie...WITHOUT Jim Carrey. If that wasn't bad enough this film replaces Jim with some fat, irritating child AND suggests Ace died. "Respectful" is not a word in this film's voca... read morebulary. It also has some old guy, playing Ace's dad, whom repeats all of Carrey's signature lines in a fashion akin to your own grandfather, embarrassing you at your birthday party. This is really horrible, verging on disgusting. I'm not the biggest Ace Ventura fan, but this is just ghastly. I hope all involved have a suicide pact.
  • April 20, 2012
    This KIDS MOVIE (also known as Ace Ventura Jr. and Ace Ventura 3) is actually a telefilm designed for a kids network and is not suitable for adults! Please, remember this when you watch it!

    I could not stand the bad screenplay, bad acting, and the director who made the third i... read morenstallment in the Ace Ventura film series... but on the other hand, 23 of my 9 years old students simply loved it! They thought that the story of Ace Ventura, Jr. , who must follow in his father's (Ace Ventura's) footsteps to save his mother from going to jail, was hilarious!

    Won't waste time on this one... if you're a kid go and watch it!
  • August 28, 2009
    Complete crap. It's like the people that did the first and second forgot what the movie was like. Not to mention this new idea of making movies straight to DVD being prequels or sequels is a really trashy idea. It's like they figure "How can I exploit an already established name ... read moreand do nothing to make it worth while and have no originality?" Jim's over the top performance was amusing at best but lets be honest, the only reason people watched them was because he was in them. There were no original pieces to this movie period except perhaps the stylist for the hair, and even then I'm not sold. Having some old guy trying to play the part of Ace's father was incredibly lame and became incredibly painful as he tried to spout off the catch phrases. The kid did his own character and wasn't like a really cheap knock off like I had figured he would be. This isn't suitable for anyone to watch. It's unimaginative, unoriginal and unfunny.
  • October 8, 2010
    Very, very, very cute movie. It's also funny like the other ace movies, but its more for children. It's something to watch. I don't say own it, just rent it.
  • September 10, 2009
    worst movie ever. Did the studio cast the little fat kid to be Ace because they thought he was funny because he could act or because they thought he was funny because he's fat?
  • March 1, 2009
    Entertaining, my boy loved it. The kid tried to hard to act like Carey, which in itself was funny because it wasn't that good.
  • February 26, 2009
    omg boring.. i guess i was expecting jim carreys way of doing his humor, this kid was fat, and did a bad job imitating jim, omg this movie sucked, this is probably why it went straight to DVD. dont even bother people, buying or renting this movie. of course this is all my opinion... read more, if you don't believe me, then go ahead, but i promise u will be bored and disappointed.

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Kevin Carr
March 16, 2009
Kevin Carr, 7M Pictures

It's really a kids' movie at its heart. And if you watch it with that in mind - as a film made for the Nickelodeon crowd - you'll see that it fills out rather nicely Full Review

Rory L. Aronsky
March 12, 2009
Rory L. Aronsky, Film Threat

It's disappointing that this is the next, and most likely final step of the Ace Ventura franchise. Full Review

Brian Orndorf
February 25, 2009
Brian Orndorf, BrianOrndorf.com

Ace Ventura Jr.: Pet Detective is a loathsome, exceedingly unfunny continuation of a once rewarding film series...a terrible motion picture, scraping the bottom of the barrel. Full Review

John J. Puccio
February 18, 2009
John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis

...if you're a fan of the Jim Carrey Ventura films, you're probably not going to like this kids' version. Full Review

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