Juggling mirth, romance and murder requires a deft touch -- think of Hitchcock's Trouble With Harry. Axe is a blunt instrument.
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
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.
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.
One of the most lame comedy whodunnits ever to make it to the screen.
Mostly you spy the red flags that shout Troubled Production and We Don't Know What to Do With This Script.
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