Makes sense. This movie started production immediately after they released their hit song "I Cum Blood" that Carrey has said is his favorite (yes, that's really the name of the song)
Google a picture of the Love Boat cast. Captain Stubing was the captain of the boat. It's actually a friggin hilarious joke because the butler looks just like the guy.
"If I'm not back in 5 minutes, just wait longer"...is a phrase I still use to this day. Also, the line "this house is clean" is from the movie "Poltergeist" (1982). That's a VERY suspenseful movie you need see and "Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls" is definitely worth watching.
The "halftime" bit where he slams his head onto the bench was the actual audio from the scene. The director Tom Shadyac once said in an interview that when they shot the scene he couldn't believe how loud it was and the fact that Jim just went 120% on the scene so they didn't ADR the shot at all.
Ace Ventura 2 is the rhino's ass movie. Arguably just as funny as or funnier than the first one. And when that movie came out in theaters, the rhino scene was jaw-droppingly shocking and hilarious.
Ace Ventura 2 is excellent, and it's writer/director Steve Oedekerk co-wrote Bruce Almighty. He also wrote, directed, and starred in Kung Pow! Enter The Fist, a spoof of Hong Kong martial arts movies.
The football players throughout the movie really were NFL players at the time, to include Dan Marino. The sole exception was Ray Finkle, who was fictional (although his back story was loosely based on Buffalo Bills kicker Scott Norwood, who famously missed a last-second field goal in Super Bowl XXV which led to his team losing by one point). I actually first saw this movie in the theater with my parents. I was just about to graduate from basic training in the Army, and in honor of that we all received overnight passes to go out on the town and celebrate. But while all my buddies were partying at a local hotel, I got to spend the evening with my parents (who'd made the drive to see me graduate the next day) and then sleep on the floor in their hotel room. I did enjoy the movie, though, and it was somewhat amusing seeing my mother get drunk off of two drinks over dinner. 😄
Jim Carrey did an interview, where he said he talked to Anthony Hopkins before filming. He said Hopkins told him to think of Ace as an animal. So Ace Ventura is actually a cockatoo! Craziness if you think about it, the hair and the walk makes sense.🤣
Yes, the character of Ace Ventura is based on a bird… the hair, the clothes, the walk, the mannerisms etc. the thing that’s incredible about Jim Carrey is he’s actually versatile unlike any other comedian (except Robin Williams) he actually gives you something different in every movie he’s in, while other comedians are constantly giving you the same BS in all of their movies
How in the world did Jim Carrey of this era have the opportunity to interact with Anthony Hopkins? I was so curious I Googled it, and apparently Carrey was a big fan of Hopkins so he just called him up and asked him out to dinner and that's how they met!
5:49 “I practiced making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.” - Jim Carrey
Friends came after Ace Ventura. Before this movie, Courtney Cox was The Girl from Springsteen's Dancing in the Dark video. Then she was briefly The Girl from Ace Ventura before being forevermore one of the Friends. Captain Stoobing the Love Boat's captain. The doorman at the party bore a resemblance. Smelt is a fish.
My youngest brother has watched this movie so many times as a kid, he soked up the Ace Ventura behaviour to the point, where it's part of himself now. He randomly walkes like him, curles the lip.... When you just quote a tiny bit of the movies today, he is in full on Ventura mode. He is 35 now 😄
It's been missed by a few reactors now so its worth mentioning that Mission Impossible was originally a 1966 CBS TV series that was hugely popular at the time and the popular score of the movies is directly from the TV show
Ace Ventura was an original character for this film, it became massive after the movie release and then they made it into an animated kid's show and comics. Im realizing more and more there is a huge generational gap here: up to the early 2000's original comedy movies were very common so it wasn't far fetched to have original characters created for comedies, like for example Dumb & Dumber which also got massive and they were turned into an animated kid's show and a comic. That's a bigger conversation but nowadays the media landscape is very different and comedy movies are not that common if they exist at all. Comedy in these days is produced in other mediums like RU-vid.
Jim Carrey did say in an interview that the character Ace Ventura is supposed to be like a curious bird. That's why he has the tall hair, colorful outfits, and also bobs his head a lot and eats seeds.
When this movie came out. I was Ace for Haloween that year. Had the hair, shirt, pants. You name it. Knew every line and never broke character. I had to take the next 2 days off because I was exhausted after doing it for hours at 3 parties. I still quote this movie to this day. I need to find the pictures.
Captain Stubing was the captain of the titular ship in _The Love Boat_ , a US TV series which for some reason was popular from its debut in 1976 through its finale in 1986. Gavin MacLeod, who played the captain, was thin and grey-haired around a significant bald patch, leading every thin, balding old man as the butt of "Captain Stubing" jokes up through the early 90s (when Ace Ventura was made).
The simple formula was to bring in celebrity guest stars each week to play characters in love themed plots of all sorts. That means it was both somewhat repetitive and somewhat fresh each week. The recurring characters were crew members and where formula characters, exactly as you would expect. The goofy and very horny purser. The female activity director. The ship's doctor. The crew got their share of hot guests from time to time, too. A definite lightweight, but very successful.
The scene in the mental hospital when Ace slams his face into the bench, if you look closely you can actually see the doctor laughing. It cuts away quick but you can see it. Probably my favorite bit in the whole movie
Jim Carrey said in many interviews that he said that Ace Ventura's body and mannerisms were based on the idea that Ace is a really smart bird. Even his hair is modeled after a cockatoo
@@tfpp1 No, I get it. It starts out good, but the Lost Boys are really annoying in that movie, and the sets look cheap and dingy. Shame, because Dustin Hoffman is a great Captain Hook and Robin Williams is a perfect grown-up Peter.
@@jculver1674I’m sorry, that sounds weird because it’s a Steven Spielberg movie… the biggest director ever. To hear someone say that a Steven Spielberg movie is cheap is unheard of
I always thought he used the bizarre behavior to keep others off guard, letting him get access to info and clues since they disregard and underestimate him as a dork.
For the second movie, Carey actually managed to get in the contract that he could be even more over the top. So that movie is basically him at full speed ahead.
Captain Stubing is from the Love Boat 😄. It was extremely popular romantic TV-drama from 70s and 80s set in a cruise ship. It often featured famous actors and actresses as guest stars playing each cruise's passengers. Each week guest actors were credited along with regular cast as crew in its iconic intro. It had three plot lines format set in each cruise: one revolving around crew member, which was usually most comedic in nature, second story line was more romantic comedy type with some drama and third which was more serious and dealt more serious issues. So a little bit for everyone. Scene is extremely funny if you're familiar with the TV-show.
If you watch the movie carefully, it was filmed right after hurricane Andrew hit South Florida in 1992, when he's going to Ray finkle's parents home you can actually see major hurricane damage to the right of the highway. All the football players you see in the montage are actually Miami dolphin players from the 92/93 season. The person making the kicks where snowflake is being held is the Miami dolphin kicker Pete Stoyanovich in a dress and a wig.
Someone else mentioned it, but Jim Carrey insisted on Cannibal Corpse being hired because he loved the band. I assume you know that Dan Marino is a real player. As far as I know, he's the only real football player in the film. There are technically two sequels to this, but nobody is going to want you to watch the third movie: it was a direct-to-video sequel made something like ten years after the second movie with no returning cast members or creatives, starring a child doing the schtick as "Ace's kid." There is a cartoon, but it was made based on the success of these two movies. I would guess that this was shot before "Friends," but I can tell you it was shot before Carrey was a movie star. He was a breakout star on the Wayans' sketch comedy show "In Living Color," the only white guy in the cast, and then Ace Ventura, The Mask, and Dumb and Dumber all managed to come out the same year, 1994, turning him into the biggest comedy star overnight. I still hope that among Carrey's '90s comedies, you make time for The Cable Guy, which I think is his comedy peak. At the time, it was not super popular but over the years it's gained a following as people become more receptive to Carrey doing something a little different (although in this case, not drama -- I won't say exactly what I mean to you can find out for yourself). Expect more Star Trek jokes, though. The director of this movie ended up being one of Carrey's most frequent collaborators. Tom Shadyac would later direct him in Liar Liar and Bruce Almighty. I wonder if Shadyac was a fan of Ghostbusters, as he snagged two cast members: Alice Drummond, who played the librarian in Ghostbusters and Ray Finkle's mother, and David Margulies, who played the mayor of New York and the doctor at "Shady Acres" -- a reference to Shadyac and what he later named his production company.
The part where Ace is in the asylum and he goes "let's see that, in instant replay" was made up on the spot by Jim Carrey. You can see Courtney Cox turning her head to hide her laughter because she couldn't keep it in and caught her off guard. Also the story he tells her where he's being chased by a rabid dog and startles her by showing her the "bite mark" on his neck was also made up on the spot. He genuinely scared the crap out of her. 🤣🤣🤣
The physicality of his character, including how he eats sunflower seeds, is because Ace is based on a parrot, hence his weird hair (crest), head bobbing and weird swagger, etc.
Originally, Rick Moranis was offered the role of Ace Ventura. He declined, THE Alan Rickman was considered for the role as Ace. But Jimmy boi got the role and changed the character of Ace by simply being Jim Carrey.
The scene when they get to the party, and Ace calls the doorman Captain Stubbing, and asks about Gofer and Doc, is a reference to the t.v. show The Love Boat, because the doorman looked just like the star who played Captain Stubbing, and Gofer and Doc were two other popular characters.
I've watched this movie and the second one since childhood, Jim Carrey was a staple in my household. So glad you guys could watch it, I feel like Jim Carreys humour definitely rubbed off on me and my mother no wonder why we're so weird 🤣😭!!
Yes definitely! Same with me, my parents took me to see this when it came out in 1994… I was 7 and I was hooked on Jim Carrey ever since. He became my idol from then on. Ace Ventura became my life and I quoted it for years (still do)
When this came out on VHS it came with the Ace Ventura business card. My cousins and I literally watched this movie for 24 hours straight and repeated all the words 😂
Mission Impossible was also a TV series back in the 60s. This movie is actually older than the Mission Impossible movies so that was actually a reference to the TV show
I saw this in the theater with my friends and pregnant girlfriend, and we were all in pain from so much laughing. I actually saw Jim Carrey doing stand up a couple years earlier, right before In Living Color was on t.v., and he is really this insane all the time. :D
This was well before the Mission Impossible movies. The theme music was from the old Mission Impossible TV series. And Captain Stubing, Gopher, and Doc were characters in the 80s series “The Love Boat.”
Cannibal Corpse is in the movie because JIM CARREY is a big fan. Seriously. Also, this movie isn't based on any pre-existing property, but it was one of those scripts that was floating around Hollywood for years until Jim Carrey was attached. He added and improvised a lot of the character quirks. Also also, Mission Impossible is way older than the movie. The movie of MI is based on the TV show from the 60s and 70s.
This will always be one the funniest movies I've ever seen topped only by the sequel (PLEASE watch that one soon!). You think you laughed through this one your face will hurt from laughing so much at the second.
"Hello Captain Stubing... How are Gofer and Doc?" Is a reference to "The Love Boat" which was a TV Series about a crew that works a Cruise Ship. 1977-1987
I remember seeing this at the movies at the age of 10. My dad and I laughed all through this. For the next ten years, Jim Carrey took over Hollywood, with a string of comedy classics and some damn fine dramatic performances, too. He'll always be one of the best.
I think Jim Carey was actually going back to his TV Character from back in the day on the show "In Living Color", Fire Marshall Bill, when he did the little 'Popeye' style laugh. A staple sketch comedy show from the Wayans Brothers. Definitely a throwback, let's put it this way, Jennifer Lopez was an unknown background dancer in a group that would have little dance interludes between sketches 🤣
16:14 Because, my dear Simone, this movie came out in February of 1994. "The Lion King" -- which features the song "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" -- premiered in theaters the following June. 😉
Others have explained the Captain Stubing / Love Boat reference. Worth noting that Love Boat comes up in my socials now, mostly for one particular episode which was way ahead of its time in its positive and realistic portrayal of a transgender person, and the prejudice they faced. This stands in marked contrast to some movies I can think of. 😛
Jim Carrey himself called the character's reaction "...completely homophobic...", and indicated that he wouldn't do those jokes today, not because of public reaction but because he's grown as a person.
Fun fact: Ray Finkle dude in the picture is really Sean Young as a dude. I didn’t believe it at first until I saw the making of Ace Ventura back in the 90’s. Can’t remember if it was on FOX channel or E! channel though when Sean Young mentioned it. She wore the wig and mustache.
That scene with the rhino that you referenced, is in the 2nd movie and is arguably the funniest scene in the history of film! The "Captain Stubing" reference came from the classic 70" tv show The Love Boat. The guy was dressed, and looked very similar to Captain Stubing. "Gopher and Doc" were two of the characters from the show.
In retrospect this movie has some pretty serious transphobia going on, but back when I saw it, what I got out of it was just that you could look like Sean Young after transition. Silver lining, I guess, or perhaps rose-colored glasses.
Fun fact! Jim Carrey had dinner with Anthony Hopkins and they discovered a similarity between Hannibal Lecter and Ace Ventura. The physical inspiration for both characters are animals. Lecter is a reptile (patient, never blinking) and Ace is an exotic bird (the clothes, the hair and walk).
Since not many people comment on this, I just gotta say: while many things about this movie are funny, and Jim Carrey is a certified legend, that ending (both the stripping of Sean Young and Jim Carrey's disgusted reaction in the previous scene to finding out about her identity), is one of the hardest film sequences to watch as a trans person. Very indicative of the general attitude toward trans/gender non-conforming people in the 90s.
Captain Stubing reference was from the t.v. series Love Boat. I had forgotten Tex Cobb and Tone Loc was in this movie. Yes they are former players and coaches.
Legendary Dolphins coach Don Shula at the mail box grab - Died May 4, 2020 - "Shula won Super Bowl titles in 1972 and 1973 and is one of only six coaches in NFL history to win consecutive Super Bowls. His 1972 team went 17-0, recording the only undefeated season in NFL annals."
22:15 - As much as I love the comedy of Ace Ventura, and really love the acting of Jim Carrey, it is rather unfortunate that a major plotpoint of this movie is based on an extremely transphobic stereotype of "the sinister man pretending to be a woman to get away with crimes" (and the both trans- and homophobic "joke" about how kissing a "trans" woman is super disgusting (even though character isn't actually trans)). This kind of attitude was unfortunately prevalent at the time - and to some extent still is. It doesn't make the movie bad... but it does put a damper on the comedy when you realize just how badly it misrepresents and mocks a group of marginalized people. I think probably the writers didn't even realizing they were doing it, since there wasn't much awareness about trans people back then. They just thought it was a funny joke. But it is unfortunately the sort of thing that needs to be called out in today's political climate with so much hate-mongering about trans people.
@@tempsitch5632 I used "trans" in quotations, because the character I was referring to is not a trans woman - but could be perceived as such, especially by someone unfamiliar with the term. I don't even know what point you're trying to make, as whether the character is referred to as trans, not trans, or "trans" in quotation, doesn't change the fact that the joke relies on a common, overused, and insulting transphobic trope. Given today's political climate, such a joke (while harmless in and of itself) must be pointed out as perpetuating a harmful stereotype, even if we can laugh at it (each their own sense of humor), we cannot approve of it. And considering that I am an actual trans woman, I think I know pretty well how the word that describes what I am is used.
Hey guys Shout out from your favorite US Marine! Loved you guyses reaction! As always! "Your gun is sticking into my hip!" 22:22 The way that line comes back at you.... Just so underrated and epic!
It's unfortunate that I loved this show all the way till the end. the 90's were terrible. The whole end is a transphobic joke. I was so disappointed. Jim Carey even said the character was a homophobe and transphobe the idea is meant to show how how stupid his reaction is. the second one was way better imo.
The Captain Stubing, Gopher & Doc scene was a reference to a TV series that ran on ABC from 1976-1986, I guess you could call it a fantasy/comedy series.
16:20 Well, for one thing because that movie hadn't come out yet, Pet Detective came out February 1994 and Lion King came out in November 1994, Can you Feel the love tonight earliest release wasn't until May.
You cant watch the Einhorn Finkle thing without understanding the cultural significance at the time of another film - British I think maybe Irish - 'The Crying Game'
I'm glad you two enjoyed it. My personal top three Jim Carrey movies are: 1) Once Bitten 2)The Mask 3) Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Honorable mention) Dumb & Dumber
Out of context that final scene must seem very anti-trans, and to be fair it is based of The Crying Game which has many accusers of anti-trans bigotry.
In context that final scene is very anti-trans. The 90s often portrayed Trans Women as mentally ill Men who were pretending to be Women and loved to use them as Villains in movies. This also lines up with what a lot Anti-Trans people actively believe today.. Even Joe Rogan said it was "Insanely Transphobic".
Captain Stubing, Gopher and Doc are a reference to the 70s TV Series The Love Boat which stars Gavin MacLeod as Captain Stubing, Bernie Kopell as Doc and Fred Grandy as Gopher who was the ship's purser. It ran from September of 1977 to May of 1986.
