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The film is set in a health club in Los Angeles, with John Travolta starring as an ace investigative reporter for real-life mag Rolling Stone.
He's one of the movie's funniest, most talented, and above all, most original voices, so why remake an old warhorse like this? Walter Matthau is the shifty editor and Jack Lemmon is his ace reporter.
Colonel Scott was a legitimate ace during the war and his story is worth watching.
One of Walter Matthau's many triumphs, and Tatum O'Neal as the pitching ace is also terrific (especially in the dug-out scene where she tries involving Matthau in her life and he cracks, sending her away in tears: "You don't wanna go, fine, no big deal.").
The best part for me is seeing Ace being thrown about by a shark!
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls followed.
Ace Ventura would surely have to be one of the all time comedy greats.
A team of American special agents lead by super smooth ace martial artist Jones (the ever cool Jim Kelly) travel across Thailand to rescue June (Judith Brown sporting in atrociously overdone Southern accent), the daughter of a U.S. senator who's been abducted by the evil Rangoon (Sam Hiona doing a third-rate Fu Manchu impression).
Before "Cannonball Run" they made the first two "Smokey and the Bandit" pictures, and afterwards they made "Stroker Ace" and "Cannonball Run II".
The plot is pretty neat and the setting is ace, with treasure seeking archaeologists heading to an accursed island where murders have recently taken place.
It helps that the effects, designed by Randall Willaim Cook, are pretty ace when they do appear.
Maybe because Jim Carrey's the only actor on earth who can pull Ace Ventura off without looking like a complete jackass.
Ace Ventura is obnoxious, but he makes sense and solves complex cases; he's no idiot.
Finally Dennis Morgan who plays flying ace Scott made many great movies and this is one of them.
Carrey's a comedic legend and in Ace he found the ideal showcase for his talent (which, sadly, he beat to death in the lackluster sequel).
Ace is on a totally different planet and he couldn't care less for social conventions or politeness.
The uniformly ace acting from a tip-top cast qualifies as another significant asset: Lambert and Locklin make for sympathetic leads, Smith excels in one of his customary bad guy roles, plus there are stellar supporting performances by Jeffrey Combs as flaky, bespectacled computer whiz D-Day, Lincoln Kilpatrick as wise trustee inmate Abraham, Tom Towles as mean roughhouse bully Stiggs, Vernon Wells as vicious top con Maddox, and Clifton Collins, Jr. as scrappy young punk Nino Gomez.
Here in Atlanta we mourn the death Monday, February 27th of General Robert L. Scott, ace and author of the book from which this classic movie was made.
Based on the Hecht-MacArthur play, a newspaper editor and his ace reporter battle each other while fighting civic corruption in Chicago.
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is my all-time favorite Jim Carrey movie.
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective must search through all of Miami looking for clues and motives on the kidnapping and makes a complete fool of himself at the same time!
If you wanted to see Jim Carrey before he was the Grinch then this is the movie to see! Courtney Cox is also in the movie, playing an executive of the Dolphins named Melissa Robinson, Ace's love interest in the movie.
Yeah, and Kent Murdoch (Lew Ayres) was there, ace photographer always with an angle and a wise crack, fast with his words, especially "Now listen, baby..." when he's with a good-looking dame.
There's also the exquisite b&w photography from cameraman Ted Mc Cord, along with expert direction from studio ace Jean Negulesco.
When the Miami Dolphin's dolphin is kidnapped they hire Ace to find the animal.
He's an ace helicopter pilot who is a cello player, art collector, and an environmentalist.
Ace Ventura is such a well made movie.
Virgil makes for a pretty cool killer, the ending is unexpected and the gore, though cheap and occasionally of the squirt gun blood variety is fun to watch and ace in a couple of places.
Shootout scene with Motorhead's "Ace of Spades" in the background: you can't ask for anything better.
The third happens to the castanet player, whose fortune teller turns up the ace of spades for her several times in a row without fail.
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