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- 1993
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
- 1993
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
Summary A San Francisco poet who fears commitment suspects his girlfriend may have a knack for killing off her significant others.
Directed By: Thomas Schlamme
Written By: Robbie Fox
- 1993
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
- 1993
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
So I Married an Axe Murderer
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6.0
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Summary A San Francisco poet who fears commitment suspects his girlfriend may have a knack for killing off her significant others.
Directed By: Thomas Schlamme
Written By: Robbie Fox
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 30 Critic Reviews
54
47% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
40% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
13% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 30 Critic Reviews
54
47% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
40% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
13% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
The crass Scots jokes are irresistible; Alan Arkin's cameo as a mild-mannered police chief is sheer perfection; and the cultish references to Beat poetry should please slumming hipsters. Like an exploding haggis, funny but extremely messy.
Director Thomas Schlamme ("Miss Firecracker," "Crazy From the Heart") also does a better than average job of evoking the romance of his San Francisco locations; giving his mystery-comedy a Hitchcockian "feel"; and getting likable performances from Brenda Fricker as Charlie's mother, Anthony LaPaglia as his cop best-friend, and Nancy Travis as the maybe-murderess. [30 July 1993]
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 User Ratings
6.0
50% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
25% Mixed
2 Ratings
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25% Negative
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2 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 User Ratings
6.0
50% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
25% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
25% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
I haven't written a movie review in a while but the average for this iconic film is below a 6 and that upsets me so here's my vote :D if you haven't watched it, and want some 90's-style goodness, please do. (real rating: 9/10, but 10/10 for here :))
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At the end of the day, the movie works. It's funny, it's charming, it's sweet – all elements that make it a more accessible comedy than Meyers' later work, which is generally aimed to a more specific audience. It's certainly worth rewatching and holds up well to retrospect, and while it might not be the laugh-a-minute spoof that was the original Austin Powers, it's an amusing – and at times hilarious – look back at the beginning of one comedian's superstar career.
"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.
It's a comedy about maniacs: a tasteful murder-comedy, which isn't that laudable a goal.
Credit writer Robbie Fox for the fertile comic premise of equating marriage and death in the male mind. But the story, involving Charlie’s cop buddy (Anthony LaPaglia) and Harriet’s artist sister (Amanda Plummer), is too convoluted. Juggling mirth, romance and murder requires a deft touch — think of Hitchcock’s Trouble With Harry. Axe is a blunt instrument.
So I Married an Axe Murderer is a clumsy mishmash of Saturday Night Live sketches and a rambling comic-thriller plot that wastes the promise of twisted laughs presented by its '50s B-movie title. [30 July 1993, p.G7]
This is just a bad American comedy devoid of originality and charm. Mike Myers is just annoying as Pauly Shore but without the benefit of being a stoner legend so really he has nothing but annoyance. The story is long and boring. The comedy will never draw a laugh. It is just rubbish full of boredom and annoyances. The story goes nowhere and does nothing. It’s one of those ‘iconic’ movies that is actually just terrible, even worse now the nineties are long over.
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