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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767827584
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767827589
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 01, 1999
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 9065
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: July 30, 1993
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Mike Myers's first feature role without his Wayne's World wig is a performance at odds with the best interests of the movie. Myers plays a single guy who always manages to find something seriously wrong with each of his girlfriends. His new love (Nancy Travis), a butcher, may be the perfect woman, except for one thing: she might be a 'black-widow' killer who prefers dispatching husbands with a sharp instrument. Robbie Fox's original script has a fine shape and strong, black-comedy material within it. But Myers creates unnecessary dissonance by playing a variety of characters (including an irascible Scotsman like the one he often played on Saturday Night Live) and accenting his skills as an improvisational comic (such as impersonating the soothing cadences of a massage therapist). It's not that Myers isn't funny doing all that, but it has nothing to do with the movie. Directed by Thomas Schlamme (Miss Firecracker). --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - So I Married an Axe Murderer
This movie came out around the same time as the Wayne's World so it slipped under the radar screen. If you like Mike Myers' movies you will like this one. It has a good supporting cast and a not bad story line. It has made the rounds on premium cable channels and I'm glad to say is now part of my library.
Rating:  - I care for "Apple Jacks" a great deal
So I Married an Axe Murderer is an early Mike Myers attempt at comedy that is somewhat of an unsuccessful experiment, but it still has lots of funny parts and is entertaining as long as you don't demand too much of it. Myers plays Charlie Mackenzie, a San Francisco poet, and he also plays his own father, Stuart Mackenzie, an abrasive Scotsman. The Scotsman character is one that he cooked up for Saturday Night Live, but while it didn't quite work out for SIMAAM (So I Married an Axe Murderer) it led to him doing the voice for the ogre Shrek, which is obviously based on his Scottish voice, and we all know how that worked out.
Strange but funny in a strange way, but also sort of funny in a ha ha ha way, is when Stuart Mackenzie sings pop hits from Scottish singers. The Bay City Rollers and Rod Stewart get the Stuart Mackenzie treatment, with the Do You Think I'm Sexy? lead guitar break done on bag pipe. Bizarre! The most effective use of music in SIMAAM is a cover of Here She Comes with stellar production done by the Boo Radleys (you have to like a band named after the scary character played by Robert Duvall in To Kill a Mockingbird). The song is the theme for Harriet, and illustrates the intense feelings she evokes in Charlie.
Nancy Travis as Harriet Michaels, the mystery woman who steals Charlie Mackenzie's heart, is really good. She later married the producer, Rob Fried, and they had two kids together. I wondered if it was a casting couch audition situation, but she redeemed ... Read More
Rating: - Hysterical and witty A++
If you like Mike Myers, and you like to laugh, this movie is a classic best bet ! So many great lines and a good story line too. One of my top 10.
Rating:  - "I Think I'm Dating Mrs. X"
Charlie Mackenzie (Mike Myers) has a bit of a commitment problem. It doesn't matter how perfect his girlfriend is, he finds some reason to end the relationship.
Then, into his life, walks Harriet Michaels (Nancy Travis). With just one smile, she melts Charlie's heart. It's love at first site, and Charlie is ready to leave his bachelor days behind him.
There's just one little problem. Reports are circulating the country about a Mrs. X who kills her husbands on their wedding night. And Charlie thinks that Harriet may be Mrs. X. Is he just coming up with another excuse not to commit? Or is he signing his life away by asking Harriet to marry him?
I'm not normally a fan of Mike Myers' comedy, and this movie reminded me why. The reliance on sexual jokes and situations for comedy never appeals to me. Mike also plays Charlie's dad Stuart, and I just found that character annoying.
To further complicate things, the story is rather dull. We know what's coming, and the movie takes too long getting there. If I had been enjoying myself along the way, I wouldn't have minded. But since I wasn't, I didn't. I actually enjoyed the sub-plot about Charlie's friend Tony (Anthony LaPaglia) and his disappointment in his job as a cop more then the main story.
The only thing that gives the movie that second star is the climax. It was actually funny and interesting. It's not enough to make the movie worth watching, but at least it was entertaining. ... Read More
Rating:  - Top 5 Comedy
This is one of the funniest movies of all time. Mike Myers best and most memorable performance. The scenes with Charlie's father (Stuart McKenzie, also played by Mike Myers) are so funny they will make you laugh until your stomach hurts. Heeeed, paper now!
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