Directed by Peter Farrelly,Bobby Farrelly
Starring: Jim Carrey,Jeff Daniels,Lauren Holly
Release date: December 16, 1994
Running time: 107 minutes
Plot
Lloyd Christmas is a simple-minded limousine driver in Providence, Rhode Island, who becomes infatuated with his passenger, Mary Swanson, as he drives her to the airport. Mary is heading home to her family in Aspen, Colorado, but leaves a briefcase at the airport. Lloyd notices, and retrieves the briefcase before a pair of thugs arrive to pick it up, dashing ahead of them to snag the briefcase. Lloyd is unable to catch Mary in time, and is left on the tarmac of the airport with briefcase in hand (after having run off the end of a jetway).
Harry Dunne, Lloyd’s roommate, is in the pet grooming business, and has recently spent his life savings converting his van (a 1984 Ford Econoline) into a “sheepdog”. Both Lloyd and Harry quickly lose their jobs due to preventable accidents, and the two are distraught over their situation. Thinking Lloyd is a “professional” hired by the Swansons, or perhaps an FBI agent, the thugs exact revenge on Harry and Lloyd. Shortly after returning home, Lloyd and Harry are alarmed by the thugs at their door, one of them being armed. Believing them to be debt collectors, the two escape through their back window with the briefcase. While the pair are out looking for new jobs, the thugs behead Harry’s pet parakeet. After they return home, Lloyd, who had just been robbed of beer and other goods by “a sweet old lady on a motorized cart,” convinces Harry they should leave their messed-up lives in Providence behind and head for Aspen to return the briefcase to Mary. The thugs learn of their intentions and pursue the two Aspen-bound men.
Plot
Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey) is a self-styled “Pet Detective” from Miami, Florida, who is employed by people to reunite lost or stolen pets with their owners. While his methods seem to work, he does not often get work and is behind on his rent, in addition to being a laughingstock at the Miami-Dade Police Department. Rebecca Ferratti is the ex-wife of a Dognapper (Randall “Tex” Cobb} who hires Ace Ventura to retrieve her puppy in the film’s first scene.
At Joe Robbie Stadium (now LandShark Stadium), the mascot of the Miami Dolphins, Snowflake the bottlenose dolphin, is kidnapped in the middle of the night, two weeks before the team is due to play in the Super Bowl. Mr. Riddle, the team’s owner, knows that football players can be superstitious, and therefore believes they will lose the Super Bowl unless Snowflake is returned. He gives his Head of Operations Roger Podacter (Troy Evans) and Chief Publicist Melissa Robinson (Courteney Cox-Arquette) the deadline of Super Bowl Sunday to find Snowflake, or they will be fired. On the recommendation of the team secretary, who had used Ace to find her lost dog, Melissa contacts the pet detective while he is tracking a lost albino pigeon with a $25,000 reward for its return. Ace meets Melissa and Podacter before entering the dolphin tank in search of clues. Ace then searches the filter and finds his first clue: a rare triangular-cut orange amber stone.
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After failing the rescue attempt of a raccoon in the Himalayas (a parody of the opening to the film Cliffhanger), Ace Ventura undergoes an emotional breakdown and goes on a personal soul-searching quest by becoming a Tibetan monk. He is approached by Fulton Greenwall, a British correspondent working for a provincial consulate in the fictional African country of Nibia. Being that Ace’s influence is disruptive to the monastery, the Grand Abbot eagerly gives Ace excuses by which to justify his departure.
Greenwall asks Ventura to find a sacred animal called Shikaka, which has become a point of contention. Shikaka, which is a great white bat, is a sacred animal for the Wachati and Wachootoo tribes of Nibia; whenever its name is spoken, the tribesmen must bow. Accompanied by his capuchin monkey, Spike, Ace travels to Africa and returns to his pet detective work.
After arriving in Nibia and meeting with the head of the consulate, Vincent Cadby, Ace begins learning about his case as well as the possible suspects. Ace, normally an animal lover, must overcome his fear of bats in order to continue studying the case. He travels to the Wachati tribal village, where he learns that Shikaka is meant as a wedding present from the Wachati Princess, who is set to wed the Wachootoo Prince. If the bat is not returned in time, the Wachootoo will declare war on the Wachati tribe instead. Much of Ace’s activity involves eliminating various suspects and enduring the problems of dealing with the Wachati and the Wachootoo, who refer to him as the “white devil”. This proves difficult, and is made more so by other incidents including attempts to kill him.
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
Further information: The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Detective Frank Drebin tries to uncover a plan to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II, who is on a state visit to the USA. The main suspect is Vincent Ludwig, a man (hired by Papshmir, a recurring villain) who has a way of turning anyone into an unknowing assassin at the press of a remote control; it appears that the victims are responding to a post-hypnotic suggestion, but the film makes no effort to clarify the point. As with previous ZAZ spoof comedies, the ostensible “plot” was culled most from another – more serious – movie. In this case, it was Telefon wherein people were triggered into assassins via hypnotic phone calls (indeed, dialogue in the ‘post-hypnoptic suggestion’ demonstration scene is copied word-for-word from Telefon).
As he works on the case, Drebin meets and falls in love with Ludwig’s assistant Jane Spencer. It is eventually revealed that Jane knows nothing about Ludwig’s plot, and after the pair spend the night together, she helps Frank with his investigation.
Plot
At Halloween night, a young teenage girl named Drew Decker (Carmen Electra) is alone in her mansion when she receives a telephone call. Scared by its insidious tone, she grabs a baseball bat and answers the front door (thinking it is the prank caller) by attacking the trick-or-treaters. As soon as Drew returns inside the house, the caller appears, revealing himself as the murderer Ghostface. Ghostface chases Drew out of the house and onto the road, where Drew sights her father approaching in his car and calls for help, only to be run over by him while he receives oral sex. Stunned from the impact, Drew ends up being murdered.
Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris) is using her computer when her boyfriend Bobby Prinze (Jon Abrahams) appears in the window. Bobby is sad because his relationship with Cindy is not sexual. Even though he expresses this to her, she refuses his intentions and he leaves Cindy’s house.
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Plot
At Halloween night, a young teenage girl named Drew Decker (Carmen Electra) is alone in her mansion when she receives a telephone call. Scared by its insidious tone, she grabs a baseball bat and answers the front door (thinking it is the prank caller) by attacking the trick-or-treaters. As soon as Drew returns inside the house, the caller appears, revealing himself as the murderer Ghostface. Ghostface chases Drew out of the house and onto the road, where Drew sights her father approaching in his car and calls for help, only to be run over by him while he receives oral sex. Stunned from the impact, Drew ends up being murdered.
Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris) is using her computer when her boyfriend Bobby Prinze (Jon Abrahams) appears in the window. Bobby is sad because his relationship with Cindy is not sexual. Even though he expresses this to her, she refuses his intentions and he leaves Cindy’s house.
The next day in school, Cindy meets with Bobby and the rest of her friends, Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall), Greg Phillipe (Lochlyn Munro), Ray Wilkins (Shawn Wayans), and Buffy Gilmore (Shannon Elizabeth). At the school, news teams are trying to interview the police and students who knew Drew; the most prominent among the reporters is Gail Hailstorm (Cheri Oteri). Cindy points out to the others that Drew’s murder happened exactly one year after they accidentally killed a man during a wild car ride and dumped his body off a pier. Greg swore the group to a pact that they would never reveal what happened that night, and he becomes physically abusive to Cindy when she exhibits reluctance to keep the affair quiet any longer.
In class, Cindy receives a note from someone telling her that he knew about the incident with the man they killed; the first appearance of Ghostface to Cindy. After football practice, Ray and Greg are in the locker room with some other guys, and after Ray and everyone else have left Greg for the showers, Greg finds a note tucked in the door of his locker showing a picture of his small penis. Enraged, he goes to Cindy and the others and tells them about the note, and is ridiculed for it.
Buffy, competing in a beauty pageant, does a dramatic acting piece during the talent portion. During her reading, Greg is murdered by the killer in the balcony. Seeing this, Buffy attempts to warn everyone, but her desperate pleas are considered by the audience and judges as an exceptional acting performance and Buffy stops caring about Greg when she wins. That night, Cindy is attacked by the killer as well, but she calls the police and the killer escapes. Bobby arrives with the same gloves and knife as the killer, and is arrested. Cindy goes to stay with Buffy that night but receives a call from the real killer, which results in Bobby’s release. Bobby and Cindy later bump into each other at school, but their reconciliation is awkward.
The killer confronts Buffy in the girls’ locker rooms. Making a sarcastic, metafictional observation about horror movies clich?s, Buffy mocks the killer, even as he stabs her, and continues to do so even after he decapitates her. In order to get her to be quiet, he throws her head in the lost and found bucket. Ray and Brenda go to a movie to watch Shakespeare in Love. Ray, while in a bathroom stall, peeps in on another occupant, and is impaled through the head by a penis. The killer then attempts to kill Brenda in the auditorium, but because of her discourteous behavior, the other patrons kill her before he gets the chance.
During a party at her house, a series of events start happening: Tina, an overweight girl, dies in the garage as she tries to escape Ghostface and turns out to be too big to fit through the pet-flap, causing the garage door to break down. After that, Cindy has sex with Bobby, which is rather vehement because of her long denial. Meanwhile, the killer arrives at the basement to kill Shorty and his friends, but becomes intoxicated by marijuana with them instead. When they are rapping with each other, the killer raps and simultaneously kills everyone except for Shorty.
Subsequently, the killer arrives upstairs and apparently stabs Bobby. As Cindy attempts to tend to Bobby’s wound, Bobby shoots Shorty (Cannabis smoke pours out of his wound as he dies), then he reveals that he was never actually stabbed. Ray appears, very much alive, and reveals that he and Bobby are copying the serial killer. When Cindy asks for a motive, Bobby says that they don’t need one, because horror movies do not have logically coherent elements like plot or motive. Bobby also suggests sarcastically that it was lack of sex that drove him to do this, and reveals that he and Ray are homosexual lovers (something that Ray hotly denies, despite several clear indications to the contrary) who will start a new life once they kill Cindy, a crime they will get away with because they are merely copycatting a real serial killer. To conceal their guilt, they decide to stab one another in order so that the authorities will believe them to be victims of the real killer. However, right after Ray has (by accident) fatally stabbed Bobby, Ghostface appears and stabs Ray to death, who collapses on top of Bobby in an incidental sexual position.
The killer then attacks Cindy, but she finds the courage to resist and evict him. The police arrive and take Cindy to the police station, where they find out that Buffy’s brother Doofy (Dave Sheridan) was actually faking his mental retardation and is the real killer, and is in cahoots with Gail Hailstorm. After Doofy and Gail escape, the sheriff and Cindy find Doofy’s disguise in the street and Cindy cries out in the street over this discovery, until she is run over by a passing car.
Also, after some of the credits, Shorty – as a parody of Randy from Scream 3 – makes a video explaining how he didn’t make it and the rules to survive a snatch-and-run.