‘Ace Ventura: Pet Detective’ has aged like milk

Looking back at Jim Carrey’s first hit.

It’s hard to overstate how big a deal Jim Carrey was in 1994, particularly if you were a teenage boy. Within the course of one year, he went from being “the white guy on In Living Color” to the star of three of the most popular films of the year – Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, and Dumb and Dumber. 

I honestly can’t think of a comedian who had tha…