‘” Carrey and Cox, who played Ace Ventura and Melissa Robinson, respectively, in the slapstick comedy, “became really good friends” according to the Cox, and her costar “cracked [her] up the entire time.”

Melissa Robinson, portrayed by Courteney Cox.

Tom Shadyac felt it was too late in the film, that the mystery was getting too involved for him to be making jokes such as this, so they were cut.

It’s simply because of commercial pressure. It was the same situation when the series was originally shown. Initially each episode ran for 28 minutes but as the shows audience grew , so the advertising space grew so each episode was reduced to 22 minutes or so.

He also took out a part in the Finkle house when Carrey made hand puppets off the movie projector light (it would be recycled for When Nature Calls.) A subplot where Ventura successfully convinces a gas station employee to delay killing himself was also dropped because it was deemed too dark for the movie.

The line “6:30 p.m. Dinner with me. I can’t cancel that again.” was improvised by Jim Carrey. Jim Carrey spent ninety-two days in Grinch make-up, spending two hours in the morning getting in, and one hour in the evening to get out. According to Carrey, he became a “Zen Master” while sitting in the make-up chair.

According to ScreenRant, a third ‘Ace Ventura’ movie wasn’t made earlier because Jim Carrey had no interest in reprising his role as the animal detective until recently. Collider reports that “Ace Ventura 3” will be Carrey’s third collaboration with writers Pat Casey and Josh Miller.

He was paid $350,000 for the first Ace Ventura movie. A year later he would earn $15 million to appear in the sequel.

Ace Ventura Jr.: Pet Detective (also known as Ace Ventura 3: Jr. Pet Detective) is a 2009 American made-for-television standalone sequel to the Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, without involvement from either lead actor Jim Carrey nor writer Steve Oedekerk.