Movie Review: "So I Married An Axe Murderer" 07/30/93

This is a review for "So I Married An Axe Murderer", released in the United States on July 30, 1993. I watched this on VHS tape that we bought a while ago, since a friend of mine suggested it to me. "You like Mike Myers, so watch that movie! It is hilarious. You'll love it." We'll see what the review says...




Trailer

Cast
Mike Myers ... Charlie Mackenzie / Stuart Mackenzie
Nancy Travis ... Harriet Michaels
Anthony LaPaglia ... Tony Giardino
Amanda Plummer ... Rose Michaels




Plot
A writer named Charlie just doesn't seem to have any good luck with women. His friend Tony says that he shouldn't give up. There might be someone out there that Charlie can like enough to settle down.

While shopping for some foreign meats, Charlie finds a new shop down the street that sells these meats. The owner (Harriet) is the only working there and it seems that she needs help. Charlie offers his help to her and soon they are working side by side. Their relationship gets deeper and then Charlie's mother's words (about an axe murdering woman that kills her husband on the wedding night then moving on) gets under Charlie's skin. As he learns more about Harriet, it seems like this axe mudering black widow woman is his Harriet. How can he deal with this? Of course he loves her but if she is a wedding night axe muderer...





Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.



3/5 - I liked Mike Myers in this movie but it wasn't as good as I was expecting it to be. Charlie turned out to be a dunce with the hints about the axe murderer, however, the twist at the end was pretty good. Not worth watching all the way to the end to see the twist, in my opinion. Romance, yes. Comedy, yes but very little. Decent, but I probably wouldn't watch it again myself.