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So I Married an Axe Murderer

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So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)

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Reviews Counted: 30

Fresh: 15

Rotten:15

Average Rating: 5.3/10

Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Charlie Mackenzie (Mike Myers) is a love-shy "poet" living in San Francisco, who frequents neighborhood coffee houses reciting his tortured odes to unrequited love. Burned by a string of failed... Charlie Mackenzie (Mike Myers) is a love-shy "poet" living in San Francisco, who frequents neighborhood coffee houses reciting his tortured odes to unrequited love. Burned by a string of failed relationships, Mackenzie's fear of commitment has intensified into outrageous extremes of paranoia. When he finds himself falling for the sweet-faced butcher (Nancy Travis) at his local meat shop, he sees it as a final chance for love to overcome his painful cynicism. Feeling he has squelched his nagging fears, Mackenzie marries the woman. But his anxiety quickly manifests itself in the conviction that his betrothed is actually an infamous axe murderer whose antics are described in juicy detail in each week's issue of the Weekly World News. Myers also plays his own father, Stuart Mackenzie, a football-loving, Rod Stewart-singing Scotsman who repeatedly refers to Charlie's over-cranial younger brother William as "Head." [More]

Starring: Mike Myers, Brenda Fricker, Nancy Travis, Amanda Plummer

Starring: Mike Myers, Brenda Fricker, Nancy Travis, Amanda Plummer, Anthony LaPaglia, Phil Hartman, Debi Mazar, Steven Wright

Director: Thomas Schlamme

Director: Thomas Schlamme

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Although Myers is a brilliant comic, any potential he has as a romantic lead remains unfulfilled.

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02/02/09
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Arkin and the late Hartman also provide memorable moments, while the film as a whole is good-natured enough to make up for its inconsistency.

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02/02/09
Channel 4 Film

A tres hip slice of life about the dilemma of marital commitment with just a pinch of Hitchcock providing the cutting edge.

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02/02/09
Leonard Klady
Variety
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Myers pumps out a river of inventive shtick, but it doesn't cohere or connect; he seems less a character than a comedian doing couch time on a late-night talk show.

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02/02/09
J. R. Jones
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Not great, but is very watchable romance comedy.

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11/23/07
Cole Smithey
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Like an exploding haggis, funny but extremely messy.

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Chuck O'Leary
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06/25/05
Emanuel Levy
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mike myers' only tolerable picture

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Karina Montgomery
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02/20/05
Robert Roten
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The look of So I Married an Axe Murderer is crisply professional, and John Graysmark's production design provides an element of visual surprise.

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08/30/04
Janet Maslin
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07/02/04
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

funny

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Jules Brenner
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04/06/03
Josh Gilchrist
Billings Outpost (Montana)

Works in bits and pieces and it's hard to care about the plot very much, but it's all so lovably goofy that it's hard to resist

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12/29/02
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10/23/02
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Better on video than in the theatre. It's got that hindsight camp appeal.

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Audrey Rock-Richardson
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