Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) | How Woke Is It?

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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective1994

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What We Think

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is a product of its time, irreverent, politically incorrect, and refreshingly non-woke by modern standards. Those sensitive to 'modern values' may be shocked, but for anyone tired of today’s Hollywood sermonizing, it's a breath of 90s nostalgia.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective devotes itself unapologetically to slapstick humor and absurd plot points, rather than pushing any contemporary ideological agenda. Identity politics and forced representation are nowhere to be found; character traits are there to serve the offbeat narrative, not modern check boxes.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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The film makes some jokes at the expense of certain social groups, but largely sticks to lampooning its zany characters and old-school masculinity. Traditional values, if anything, are left alone or even played for laughs, not undermined by ideological revisionism.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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What is this?

There’s not much social preaching here, if anything, some of the humor would scandalize today’s sensitivity readers. The film gleefully lampoons everyone and maintains a breezy disregard for enforcing any ideological consensus or modern orthodoxy.

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