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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

1994 · directed by Tom Shadyac · 86 min
22,935 feet · Prominence
1,286th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘Ace Ventura: Pet Detective’ With Bill Simmons, Zach Lowe, and Craig Horlbeck

How this film scores

Draw63

$107m worldwide in 1994 — $239m in today's money.

As released$107mIn 2026 money$239mRank1,406 of 8,589In 199425 of 155

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise43

Critics 43, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 43.

Critics43 → 21Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy58

Judged directly: Carrey launchpad, endlessly imitated.

Verdict58 of 100IMDb6.9 from 351kWikipedia45k views a monthAge32 years

Scored beside it · 599 of 3,430 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 63 praise 43 legacy 58averages 55, which places it at22,935 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

Jim Carrey22,613 ft