What We Lost With The ‘ace Ventura’ Remake We Never Got

The film industry's compulsion to revive the Ace Ventura franchise with a remake borders on truly removed from reality. Jim Carrey’s Ace Ventura series was a big deal in the early 1990s focusing on the titular protagonist solving various crimes related to animals while being in touch with both animal behavior and pop culture references alike. Today, these movies are most well-known for launching the career of Carrey and the rampant transphobia that permeates the original installment Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Still, so long as people are dressing up as Ace Ventura for Halloween and shouting “ALRIGHTY THEN!” at the end of awkward situations, there will be interest from Morgan Creek Productions in extending this franchise in some way, even through a remake that’s consistently failed to make much headway.