Melissa Robinson appears in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective as the deuteragonist. She serves as the love interest and girlfriend, later wife, of Ace. She is portrayed by Courtney Cox.
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective[]
Melissa worked as the Miami chief publicist. She and Roger Podacter were seen being shouted by their boss to find snowflake before the Super Bowl or the risk of losing their jobs. Reluctantly taking his co-worker, Martha's suggestion to hire Ace. Melissa begins by questioning her motives for suspecting a stone she found in the empty tank, which is suspected to be an AFC championship ring.
Later after Ace was able to provide proof that his friend and co-worker, Roger Podacter was killed, Melissa warms up and befriends Ace. She would go to a party with Ace, to see if a man named Ron Camp behind her co workers death and Snow flakes disappearance. She is seen with Ron, as he trys to unsuccessfully seduce her. She and Ace leave, after Ace finds a tank containing a shark, not Snowflake, and Ace confirms he's not the person they are looking for.
Melissa informs him of a man he may have lost in his investigation, Ray Finkle, a kicker in disgrace for the Dolphins. Ace asks her why she didn't inform him of this because he had an old photo of the '84 Dolphins and he wasn't in it. Melissa explains that Finkle was a last-minute sign in as a kicker and the Dolphins redid the photo. Knowing that Finkle may be after her next after Marino, Ace asks Melissa to stay in his apartment to protect her. Melissa a young very naive women, goes back Ace's Apartment where they are alone. When asked what they should do, they proceed to have passionate sex, with Ace's pets looking at them.
Ace Ventura - Love Scene
She is impressed that they did it 3 times, she says in a very feminine voice "three times" but Ace claims sarcastically that he must be tired, implying that he has done better before, though he then proceeds for a fourth time. She later helps Ace enter an insane asylum, to find Finkle's belongings, pretending to be his care-taking sister. Near the climax of the first film, while at the Superbowl, Melissa and Emilo learn that Einhorn has label Ace both the murderer of Podracter and kidnapper of Snowflake and Marino. Then, Melissa holds Emilio at gunpoint and orders the Miami PD to hear Ace out. This allows Ace to expose Finkle to the Miami Police Department where he is arrested after trying to kill Ace. Ace and her reunite in the Superbowl stadium, to give him a kiss and begins a relationship with him.
In Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, there is no mention of Melissa and he is revealed to have abandoned Miami for a career as a Buddhist monk in a Tibetan monastery before taking on another animal related case, which implies that her relationship with Ace had ended at that point.
In Ace Ventura Jr.: Pet Detective, it's revealed that Melissa(played by Ann Cusack) married Ace and had Ace Jr. When she was falsely accused and arrested, Ace Jr. sought out help from his grandfather, Rex, to clear her name. Believing Melissa is innocent, they head to Dr. Sickenger whom they believe is involved in the theft with Quinton Pennington Jr. However, Rex discovers he is innocent and Sickenger helps them find the true culprit to exonerate Melissa. Ace Jr. exposes Quinton's father, Mr. Pennington, for stealing his classmates' pets and the famous animals, which they're found hidden in his home. Humiliated, he confesses that he did this to please Quinton Jr. and that he is fed up with his son's spoiled brat behavior. Melissa is exonerated and Mr. Pennington is arrested for his crimes.
After Ace Jr. is rewarded for his efforts, Melissa finally divulges the truth in what happened to his father, Ace. After rescuing endangered animals, he was on his way back in transporting them to a wildlife reserve when the plane disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle. Since then, he hasn't been seen and heard from.
Trivia[]
- During preliminary discussions for When Nature Calls, Courtney Cox was considered to reprise her role. She was open to returning as long as it did not conflict with her busy schedule on the hit show Friends. However, it became steadily clear that the character of Melissa bogged down the story’s pace, and consequently the character was dropped from the second film.
- In a deleted scene, after having sex with Ace, Melissa was supposed to have a scene of her examining Ace's apartment and talking to Ace's monkey, Spike. The deleted scene has never been recovered, and only a production still of Courtney Cox wearing Ace's iconic shirt remains of it.
After the love making there was supposed to be a dialogue about mating, wild animal energy, heterosexuality, hormones. There were supposed to be jokes about the beast with two backs. Also as Melissa was saying oh my god, Ace was still supposed to have his face in Melissa's chest. But they needed it stay PG-13.
After the love making scene, there were supposed to be more jokes and refrences to mating, fluid exchanging, lots of heterosexual jokes, and the credits were supposed to show them back in Ace's bed, just louder and more upclose but they needed it to stay theater friendly.
In the original script Melissa's character was supposed to Candi, or Kati, or Christi, and she was described as a young blonde with big breasts and the original script called for 3 different love scenes. Ace was supposed to be teaching her more, she was supposed to be uneducated and only hired by the dolphines because she was one of the owner's daughter.
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