Like an exploding haggis, funny but extremely messy.
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, Stephen Wright
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Director: Thomas Schlamme
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Reviews for So I Married an Axe Murderer
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.
Not only is the film funny, sometimes side-splittingly so, but it's also very well made, with unexpected moments of real tension and tenderness in and amongst the comedy.
Axe is not art by any means. It's often overly taken up with resolving itself. But Myers and others create an enjoyably loose, anti-slick feeling about the affair.
The look of So I Married an Axe Murderer is crisply professional, and John Graysmark's production design provides an element of visual surprise.
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
A tres hip slice of life about the dilemma of marital commitment with just a pinch of Hitchcock providing the cutting edge.
Although Myers is a brilliant comic, any potential he has as a romantic lead remains unfulfilled.
It doesn't help matters much that director Thomas Schlamme pays homage to great marital murder mysteries of the past, mostly because the attempts to borrow from the classics are so halfhearted.
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