Alan Rapp

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

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  • Title: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
  • IMDb: link

Released in 1994, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is little more than the window dressing of a plot to allow Jim Carrey to go crazy on film for 86 minutes. The film was heavily rewritten after Carrey was cast and much of the scenes were improvised on set to take advantage of Carrey’s humor and growing popularity. Much like his role in Batman Forever, Carrey is unleashed where films like The Mask, The Truman Show, and Dumb and Dumber made more effort to fit his style into the larger context of the film.

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Ballard – BYOB

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  • Title: Ballard – BYOB
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Investigation into other cases is largely put on hold as Ballard (Maggie Q) and her team are ordered to reopen a different cold case involving the death of a young man at a fraternity given the victim’s sister and her most recent stunt getting play on social media. In that aspect, “BYOB” is mostly a case-of-the-week episode where the truth behind the crime isn’t what anyone initially expects. There are scenes here and there tied to the larger mystery including Martina (Victoria Moroles) being stalked by one of the lower-ranking members of the conspiracy and Ballard and confirming evidence from years ago was destroyed until suspicious circumstances including forgery of a retiring cop to hide who within the department wanted the bullet destroyed. And we get several scenes involving Parker (Courtney Taylor) agonizing over if she really wants to return to duty (despite all outward signs showing she’s pretty much all-in at this point).

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Usagi Yojimbo: Ten Thousand Plums #5

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Usagi Yojimbo: Ten Thousand Plums concludes with the second-half of “Tabo” which opens with Miyamoto Usagi, Yukichi, and the pilgrims running into further resistance on their way to the shrine. It’s hard not to feel a bit of current events creeping in to the story with the anti-immigrant guards attempting to keep out undesirables. The ronin manage to quicky convince the men, one of whom Usagi notices as one of the bandits who have attacked the pilgrims on the trail, the error of their own ways.

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Rick and Morty – The CuRicksous Case of Bethjamin Button

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  • Title: Rick and Morty – The CuRicksous Case of Bethjamin Button
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As Rick (Ian Cardoni) takes Morty (Harry Belden), Summer (Spencer Grammer), and Jerry (Chris Parnell) to an alien theme park based on Earth which if far less bizarre and crazy than he claimed, the episode’s B-story features Beth (Sarah Chalke) and Space Beth de-aging themselves back to kids in an attempt to rediscover the joy that both have lost. The main story is a thin excuse for the show to get as crazy as possible when the park beneath the park is revealed. It’s the Beth storyline of the pair working out their ennui and pained frustrations to both their lives and their father that has a bit more meat on the bone. It also provides a couple of interesting nuggets in revealing how batshit-crazy-awful Beth was as a kid and the lengths Rick takes to try and control their neighbor Gene‘s (Tom Kenny) response to the number of bizarre and crazy things he’s seen over the years.

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