What do all of the following movies—Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and its sequel Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls—have in common? They revolve around the eccentric insanities of the unduplicatable character Ace Ventura, played by the one-of-a-kind actor, Jim Carrey. It’s not that hard to make such a realization. Ace’s name is in the freakin’ title!
Knowing this, you’d think a film called Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Jr.would also include the eponymous pet detective, Ace. There could be nothing farther from the truth.
The fact that Jim Carrey isn’t in the film is a heresy. His portrayal of Ace has gotten the film’s protagonist ranked as the 60th greatest movie character in a 2008 list by Empire Magazine. (Ace was also voted as one of the most annoying film characters in a British online poll.)
While the main character in Pet Detective, Junior (Josh Flitter), shared his father’s namesake, that was the only connection that we ever got to Jim. Instead, we had to watch Junior through the course of the film, trying to save his mother–not his father–from going to jail, an endeavor that forced Junior to follow in the real Ace’s footsteps.
Just like how the setting of the first Land Before Time movie was marketed as a land that existed before there was time, that film will forever be perceived as timeless. But everything else after it now has a timer that went off before their opening credits. Their time ran out just like the dinosaurs.
For those who grew up with The Land Before Time, there’s a running joke concerning its sequels where these nostalgic fans poke fun at how absurdly prolific the writers have been since the first film. The punchline generally involves someone associating the hypothetical latest installment with an outlandishly high number, the best ones being oddly specific like the Land Before Time 152. Well, the actual number of this latest installment is 14: The Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave.
The original gang is all there—Littlefoot the Apatosaurus, Ducky the Saurolophus, Cera the Triceratops, Petrie the Pteranodon, and Spike the Stegosaurus—even though the casting of said characters has changed…many times.
This time, Littlefoot and the gang went out on a brave journey to find Littlefoot’s dad, Bron, who was stranded in the wilderness when the “fire mountain” erupted. There are so many movies now that it’s just ridiculous. Just stop. They found the Great Valley. The story is over. Done! Kapoot! Finished!
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