5 Movie Spin-Offs That Suck

Oh yes. It exists and it is as dire as you think it would be.

The opening 20 or so minutes of this flick are enough to make you wretch as the movie cuts so many times, tries so many horribly dated transitions and fails so hard. to be even. remotely funny. that it's bleeding out long before anything of note actually happens. But Jules I hear you cry, it's a kids film cut it some slack. No absolutely not. I fully accept that kids films can and should be simpler for the target audience to digest, but we shouldn't want the next generation to be brought up on absolute gruel such as this.

This film tries the "shaking the keys at a baby to get it to laugh" approach but instead of keys it's wafting around a script excreted by lazy studio hacks and not even a baby would care.

And Ace as played by Josh Flitter is just horribly unlikable. His mannerisms are more grating than listening to Gilbert Gottfried being fed through a grater, his dialogue is lifted straight from the previous film which make it feel so apparent you're watching a pale imitation at best, and the plot is so thin on the ground that the film is bloated with chase and slapstick scenes that it becomes clear there's absolutely no meat on the bones of this film.

The reason why the slapstick and elongated physical comedy scenes worked so well in the original films is because it was Jim Carrey at the wheel. The man is nothing but persistent when mining for laughs and as such even annoying actions generate humor as he is so committed to doing something, anything to make you crack a smile. When super imposed over a child actor who is A, not at his peak and B, never going to have the charisma to pull this off, it's like watching Old Yella's final scenes in that we all just want to put the poor thing out of its misery.

And they do the absolute goddam dirty with Ace Ventura Snr as well in this film, because not only is this not an origin story meaning we'd at least have the option of pretending this doesn't exist, this is the 3rd film with this little butter bean as Carrey's son, and the last we hear of the original ace in this movie is that his plane disappeared while going through the Bermuda Triangle aka he's been killed off, off screen, in a sentence.

This movie is less pet detective and more absolute dog dick.