I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Nice effects though.

Great Film overall

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

How can the rating be 6.2? The movie is full of fantastic quotes! "Piper down", "Now he's going to cry himself on his huge pillow.", "Sexy little bastard". etc.... How can the rating be 6.2? The movie is full of fantastic quotes! "Piper down", "Now he's going to cry himself on his huge pillow.", "Sexy little bastard". etc.... How can the rating be 6.2? The movie is full of fantastic quotes! "Piper down", "Now he's going to cry himself on his huge pillow.", "Sexy little bastard". etc.... How can the rating be 6.2? The movie is full of fantastic quotes! "Piper down", "Now he's going to cry himself on his huge pillow.", "Sexy little bastard". etc....

The suspenseful Mike Myers' farce "So I Married an Axe Murderer" qualifies as a cute but contrived comedy about a twenty-something poet with marriage commitment issues. Myers stars as Charlie Mackenzie, a San Francisco native who loves to perform his 'beat' poetry with a three-man band and a slide-show presentation in the background at coffee shops. Charlie's subject matter is his doomed relationships with women. He falls head over heels in love with the comely Nancy Travis and cannot take his eyes off her. Actually, Charlie has botched all his romantic relationships for one arbitrary reason or another because he fears marriage as a death sentence. When he isn't flirting with Travis, Myers plays his eccentric, opinionated Scottish patriarch Stuart Mackenzie who loves to deride his younger son for his enormous noggin. The elder Mackenzie calls it variously "an orange on a toothpick," "a virtual planetoid," and compares it to a Soviet spacecraft " … that boy's head is like Sputnik, spherical but quite pointy, at parts." Realizing how derisive that he is toward his son and the complex that he may be imparting to his youngest, he observes with mock sympathy: "Now tat was offside, wasn't it? He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight, on his huge pillow." Happily, Myers isn't dominate "So I Married an Axe Murderer" with his dual performance. Co-stars Amanada Plummer, Brenda Fricker, Anthony LaPaglia, Alan Arkin, Phil Hartman, Charles Grodin, a pre-"Seinfeld" Michael Richards, and Steven Wright contribute brief but memorable bits. When Myers isn't wrestling with the proposition of whether 'to wed' or 'not to wed,' he worries about his latest girlfriend and wonders if she isn't secretly a serial killer. "Miss Firecracker" director Thomas Schlamme must have seen the Alfred Hitchcock nail-biter "Suspicion" where Jon Fontaine feared that Cary Grant was a murderer. "So I Murdered an Axe Murderer" brims with hilarity and talent, but Schlamme and "In the Army Now" scenarist Robbie Fox never generate any genuine suspense. Nevertheless, this lightweight lark is still worth watching for Myers' genius and Fox's parody of cop movie conventions.When "So I Married an Axe Murderer" opens, Charlie is cruising around San Francisco in his maroon Volkswagen Kharman Ghia convertible searching for a Scottish delight known as Haggis. He spots a corner butcher shop "Meats of the World," strolls inside, and falls in love at first sight with Harriet Michaels (Nancy Travis of "Chaplin") who works behind the counter chopping up meat. Trouble enters paradise one evening at his parents' house when his loony mom, May Mackenzie (Brenda Fricker of "My Left Foot"), reads to him from her favorite tabloid "The World Weekly News" about a 'black-widow' serial killer who murders her husbands and then vanishes without a trace. When Charlie confides to his San Francisco Police Inspector friend Tony Giardino (Anthony LaPaglia of "Empire Records") that he dreads being with Harriet because she may be a murderer, Tony dismisses Charlie's anxiety as characteristic of all his affairs with women. Again, Charlie suffers from marriage commitment and in the past has blamed his break-ups on his girlfriends when in reality he is the cause of their botched relationships. Nevertheless, Charlie begins to link the murderers with Harriet's history of moving around the country and the unsolved murders of a Florida Russian Martial Arts expert, Atlantic City Lounge Singer, and Dallas Plumber Ralph Elliott. It doesn't help matters when Charlie awakens in bed with Harriet one night and she is screaming the name "Ralph!" Later that morning, Charlie receives a shock when he gets up and tries to slip into the shower with Harriet and is surprised instead to find her sister Rose Michaels (Amanda Plummer of "Pulp Fiction") taking a shower. Eventually, things get so bad that our paranoid protagonist breaks up with Harriet.Altogether, the comedy in "So I Married an Axe Murderer" overshadows the uneven mystery related to the serial killer.

So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)Well, there are some scenes in here so hilarious I have been able to watch them over and over. And there are other parts that are pretty lame. I'll admit to fast forwarding a few times, but I watched it straight through again last night and it's not a horrible movie at all. There are some novelties to it (the opening scene with the camera latched to the coffee cup, or even just the incredibly bad beat poetry performances). And there is a clever basic plot, which keeps you guessing (the first time through).I'm not a Mike Myers fan, but then, he's supposed to be an annoying twit in this one, I think. But that's not counting his role as an older Scottish man (sound familiar), which is does with such brilliance it's hard to not love him. (You can see his co-actors laughing too hard, actually, at times--they were overwhelmed by how funny he was.) This is a genre of comedy that is partly made of up individual skits, or even particular moments that are set-ups for one-liners, and so this sequence of funny situations seems at times a little forced together, and by nature a little uneven. But the funniest of them (and we might not agree on all of these) are really really funny. That's worth a lot.

Of course this movie is not that funny as Austin Powers series, actually I remember only few moments which were really funny, there were lots of jokes, but most of them were not very funny because they were already used in many other films, but this movie is great in some other terms. The story wasn't anything special or original, but the characters were great. The actors did a great job especially Nancy Travis, I think she was a great choice for this role, because she looked kinda mysterious in this film, just like Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct. The soundtrack really raised the quality of this film. This movie has some originality, it started of good, but the ending was very predictable and banal. Anyways I still think that this movie is very entertaining.