6. There are subtle nods to Ace Ventura
Clint Eastwood isn’t the only Jim Carrey ‘character’ that Bruce Almighty harks back to.
There is a nod to another of Carrey’s films
Ace Ventura, Carrey’s crazed pet detective and one of the characters that made Carrey’s name, gets a couple of shout-outs in the film.
[dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_qQCt”]
The first of these comes when Bruce is in traffic and remarks “Hi ho Silver, away”, a Lone Ranger reference that Ventura also makes in When Nature Calls.