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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

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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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Juggling mirth, romance and murder requires a deft touch -- think of Hitchcock's Trouble With Harry. Axe is a blunt instrument.

Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment Comment
05/12/01
Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

Merely a clothesline on which to hang worn-out, off-the-wall skits.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
01/01/00
Chris Hicks
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Easily Mike Myers' best movie.

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01/01/00
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

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.

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01/01/00
David N. Butterworth
David N. Butterworth
rec.arts.movies.reviews

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.

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01/01/00
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post

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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01/01/00
Hal Hinson
Hal Hinson
Washington Post

One of the most lame comedy whodunnits ever to make it to the screen.

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01/01/00
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews

The mystery elements are just not very keen.

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Mark R. Leeper
Mark R. Leeper
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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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01/01/00
Robert Faires
Robert Faires
Austin Chronicle

A mediocre movie with a good one trapped inside.

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01/01/00
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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