It’s a comedy that featured Jim Carrey and you can watch it on Netflix!

It was February 4, 1994, when the comedy Ace Ventura, Cat and Dog Detective was released on American screens. It was born from two crazy ideas: first, Tom Shadiak and his friend Eugene Lebovitz took a comedy script that had been lying around in Hollywood for ten years and changed it. With that in mind, Shadiak single-handedly rewrote this pre-existing Ace Ventura script to make it what we know today.

An idea that will change everything

Their second idea is to find the future star of the film in the person of Jim Carrey, the king of the comedy clubs at the time, the only white actor of the comedy show. in vivid color and that According to Shadyak, “Steals every sketch he appears in.” Completely unknown outside the entertainment circuit at the time and only making brief appearances in movies, Carey agreed.

26 years later, the ending of this Jim Carrey film is still one of the most impressive in cinema

The actor is having the time of his life on the set, and in Tom Shadiak he finds someone willing to give him the spotlight for an entire movie just for the sake of farce. Carrey simply asks Ace’s character to go from complete moron to gifted detective and adds a lot of physical gags, taking a few gags from his one-man shows to immortalize them in the film. Ace’s voice is also an addition from him, again from one of his shows.

Rubbish, but incredible success!

The studio didn’t really believe in the movie it was going to release straight to video, but Shadiak and his team convinced Warner Bros. Try cinema and success there is instant. 10-20 year olds flock to the theaters to discover a new style of comedy that dares anything, including the trivial and vulgar if necessary!

With $107.2 million at the box office on a $15 million budget, Tom Shadyack and Jim Carrey became stars. It’s even better for the latter, as it added The Mask in July (119.9 million reported) and Dumb and Dumber in December (127.1 million) to that already-good list from the same year. The winning trio!

In France we first find Jim Carrey with The Mask, released in October 1994, followed by Ace Ventura in February 1995 and Dumb and Dumber in June 1995. Ace Ventura in Africa, a sequel, will be released next year. Animal Detective Adventures and many other successes of the actor in the 90s.