History YMMV / AceVentura

* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** Nearly all endangered animals in "Pet Food" are based on real endangered animals, though none of them are down to their [[LastOfHisKind last individual]] ([[MetaphoricallyTrue yet]]). Yes, even the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-handed_howler red-handed howler monkey]] and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_fairy_armadillo pink fairy armadillo]].
** The entire plot to claim the Wachati's bat nesting caves seems... just another joke, right? ''Wrong.'' The phosphate trade makes 75 '''billion''' dollar a year. Throughout the 20th century, the primary source was Pacific islands, which are now almost depleted - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphate_mining_in_Nauru some]] to the point that the islands ''themselves'' are all but erased. Any large source of concentrated phosphates would make a gold mine look like a lemonade stand.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** The opening sequence in ''When Nature Calls'', where Ace rescues a raccoon stranded on a mountain. Appropriately, it's grand in scope and exciting.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDr1KAVRg_0 SHIKAKA!]]
** [[https://youtu.be/l7YbnG0iJX8 Pato Banton's version]] of Music/ThePolice's "Spirits in the Material World" from ''When Nature Calls'' is an ethereal-sounding and catchy song that fits the sequel's atmosphere well. It also helps that Banton's voice at times sounds ''eerily'' similar to Sting's.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Homo[=/=]transphobic as it may be, Ace just ''[[ChewingTheScenery imploding]]'' over the discovery is [[spoiler:Einhorn is actually a man]] until it's clearly meant to be an overreaction arguably saves the joke from being completely unfunny all these years later. Special mention goes to the scene where Ace puts a plunger in his mouth to eject more vomit out his mouth. If helps if you go by WordOfGod that it's meant to show the irony of how the simple act of [[spoiler:kissing a man]] can destroy someone as badass as Ace, or as a send up of [[spoiler:''Film/TheCryingGame'']].
** Cadby gets his comeuppance in the second film by getting ''raped by a gorilla''. It's equal parts hilarious, disturbing and bizarre.

** ''Ace Ventura Jr.'' has a crazy scientist trying to save "ugly animals", stating that they're endangered as well, but unlike pandas nobody cares about them since they [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute aren't cute enough.]] One mentioned species is the Chinese Paddlefish...which was declared extinct in 2019 after its last remaining spawning grounds were blocked off by dams, and its decline largely ignored until it was too late, simply because they weren't as "charismatic" as other endangered species like tigers, rhinos and sharks, and thus little effort or attention was given to their conservation.

** Speaking of that, [[spoiler:former sports athlete Bruce Jenner would follow in former athlete Finkle's/Einhorn's footsteps 21 years later... as transwoman Creator/CaitlynJenner.]]
** The scene in the sequel where Ace takes [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim a spear to the knee]]... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXmPrYEOvM8 twice]].

** When Cadby is raped by a gorilla, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" plays over the scene, long preceding the widespread use of the song in memes depicting a sudden unfavorable outcome.
** The opening scene of ''When Nature Calls'' is a parody of ''Film/{{Cliffhanger}}'' and features a raccoon. ''Cliffhanger'' starred Creator/SylvesterStallone and Creator/MichaelRooker, who later reunited in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2''... which also features a raccoon.

** In Ace's and Melissa's first scene together, Ace is chewing sunflower seeds and leaving the shells all over Melissa's desk. The mess is obviously driving Melissa crazy. Her behavior throughout the whole interaction is perfectly in-character for [[Series/{{Friends}} Courtney Cox's not-too-distant-future role Monica Geller]]. As is the line where she can't resist correcting her boss when he calls a dolphin a fish.
*** Jim Carrey would later star in ''Film/BruceAlmighty'' alongside Cox's ''Friends'' co-star, Creator/JenniferAniston.

** Allllllrighty then!
** LIKE A GLOVE!
** Loo-hoo-zeh-her![[note]]Jim Carrey reprised the catchphrase in 2020 when parodying Joe Biden's presidential victory speech. No prizes for guessing whom he was referring to.[[/note]]
** Reee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-heeally...

** "New England Clam Chowder." "Is that the Red, or the White?"
** Briefly "Frankly, that's none of your damn business, and I'll thank you to stay out of my personal affairs." became a catch-all smart-alec answer to any question.

** The opening scene in the sequel with the raccoon is a direct parody of ''Film/CliffHanger''. However given that this movie is far better remembered and easier to find in syndication it's likely many years later that newer viewers are unaware that it's a parody at all.

** The main guard, the often voiceless Hitu, from the second film is Creator/AdewaleAkinnuoyeAgbaje, [[Series/{{Oz}} Adebisi]] and [[Series/{{Lost}} Mr. Eko]] himself (then credited as just "Adewale").

* {{Sequelitis}}: The second movie is often found not necessarily ''awful'' (it still has its share of SugarWiki/FunnyMoments), but largely inferior, particularly for relying on more ToiletHumor and making Ace more of a {{jerkass}}. Notably, Carrey detested working on it so much that it directly lead to his declaration that he would never do a sequel to one of his own movies ever again. (he only changed it for ''Film/DumbAndDumberTo'', which got a middling reception... and ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog22022'', where he's the villain)

** Einhorn[[spoiler:/Finkle]]'s comically oversized [[spoiler: penis tucked between his/her legs]] when Ace reveals her secret. The split second we see it is all that's needed to drive home how gross it looks.
** The scene in the second movie where his fake rhino's air conditioner fails, forcing him to stick his head out, and when it does people watching the rhino are shocked to see a rhino give birth to Ace. Did we mention that ''he's naked at the time''? The scene actually gets cut in some broadcasts of the movie.
** The scene in the second film in which Ace pounds a heavily pregnant tribeswoman's belly, causing her baby to rocket out of her vagina and land in a fellow tribesman's lap. This scene likewise gets cut in some broadcasts.
** The main antagonist Cadby in ''When Nature Calls'' ultimately ends up getting his karmic punishment in the form of ''gorilla rape''. After the gorilla grabs him, it cuts to some bushes shaking while "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" plays over it. We thankfully don't see any detail, but the implications are...quite unsavory.
* SpecialEffectFailure: The explosive used to flip Ace's jeep in the second film is very conspicuous when it goes off.
* TearJerker: That first scene in the sequel when [[spoiler:a raccoon Ace was determined to save breaks loose and falls]]. It's supposed to be a parody of the opening of ''{{Film/Cliffhanger}}'' but for some people this doesn't help to make the scene funny at all (it's not like the original scene was exactly ripe for mockery, being both highly tragic and more than a little [[NightmareFuel frightening]]). Granted it is possible to see it as BlackComedy when Ace attempts to grab its paw as if it's a human hand or him becoming so despondent afterwards that he becomes a monk in Tibet, but it may not be enough to make up for the sadness of seeing an innocent animal fall to its death.

** ValuesResonance: On the flip side of the coin [[spoiler: Einhorn]] being played by a cis woman goes directly against the popular belief bandied about by the Gender Critical movement that men cannot become woman no matter how much surgery or hormones they get/take. Ace claiming gender-affirming surgery is effective when dressing down [[spoiler: Einhorn]] pegs him as actually being light years more progressive than the likes of what a JK Rowling or a Dave Chappelle would argue in the modern day.

** ValuesResonance: On the flip side of the coin Einhorn being played by a cis woman goes directly against the popular belief bandied about by the Gender Critical movement that men cannot become woman no matter how much surgery or hormones they get/take. Ace claiming gender-affirming surgery is effective when dressing down Einhorn pegs him as actually being light years more progressive than the likes of what a JK Rowling or a Dave Chappelle would argue in the modern day.