Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 06/17/2008
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 93 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Sony Pictures
Comic actor and former
Saturday Night Live stock player
Mike Myers attempted to transform himself from the goofy title character in
Wayne's World (1992) (and its sequel) into a romantic leading man with this box office disappointment. Myers stars as Charlie Mackenzie, a San Francisco poet who meets the girl of his dreams, Harriet Michaels (
Nancy Travis) when he stops to pick up some haggis for his parents at Meats of the World, a butcher shop where Harriet works. Although he's been neurotically commitment-phobic in the past (dumping one girlfriend because she "smelled like soup"), Charlie thinks Harriet could be the one. That is, until his mother May (
Brenda Fricker) and cop best friend Tony (
Anthony LaPaglia) begin to suspect that Harriet could be an axe-wielding serial killer who has butchered several husbands. Harriet's wacky sister Rose (
Amanda Plummer) and her connection to several of the slayings make Charlie nervous, but he nevertheless pops the question, leading to an eventful honeymoon where all is revealed. Although
So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) earned less than $12 million at the U.S. box office, Myers hit upon the
Peter Sellers-inspired formula of playing various supporting characters with this film, portraying Charlie's amusingly paranoid father Stuart. The actor repeated the trick with greater success in
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) and its sequel.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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