Gone Direct-to-DVD: March 2009
By Robert Sims, Special to Hollywood.com
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Monday, March 23, 2009
We rank the good, the bad and the really ugly in direct-to-DVD sequels — released since our last batch. Learn who’s now afraid of the Boogeyman, why the staff at Shenaniganz are still Waiting on us, and what happens when its Open Season again on Boog and Elliot ... 
10. Ace Ventura Jr. Pet Detective
Cast: Josh Flitter, Emma Lockhart and Ralph Waite
The Verdict: Allriiiighty-then. No one in Hollywood’s learned the lessons of Dumb and Dumberer, Evan Almighty and Son of the Mask. We don’t care for a sequel — especially one now aimed at kindergarteners — to a Jim Carrey blockbuster if it doesn’t star the actual rubber-faced funnyman. It’s impossible to expect any 14-year-old kid to nail Carrey’ spastic ways. License to Wed’s Flitter is miscast as Ventura’s son. Every facial gesture and zinger made by Flitter seems so strained. Director David Mickey Evans stages Junior’s maiden case — involving the abduction of a panda from his mom’s zoo — by rehashing gags from Ace Ventura in clumsy, obvious fashion for 5-year-olds who think farting in a skunk’s face is the height of hilarity. Hopefully, Junior’s first case is his last.
DVD Features: Extended Scenes; Gag Reel; and Ace and His Animals, Ace Ventura Jr.: The Inside Story, Austin and Emma, All Play and No Work, Now Introducing … the Animals and Ox the Dog featurettes.
Stars: 1 out of 5
KEEP READING: See No. 9 …