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Features: Deluxe Edition, DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, Subtitled
Comedy sensation Mike Myers stars with Nancy Travis in this hatchet-driven romantic comedy about a wedlock-shy coffee house poet who finally meets the perfect woman.When it comes to love, Charlie Mackenzie (Myers) has had his share of bad luck: Sherri was a klepto - Charlie still can't find his cat. Jill was unemployed - but Charlie knew she really worked for the Mafia. Pam smelled like soup - beef vegetable soup. Good thing for Charlie these shortcomings became apparent, if only to him. Good thing for Charlie he discovered the truth before things went too far - before he stumbled into marriage! Because to Charlie the "M" word is just one step away from the fate foretold in that chilling phrase: "'Til death do us part." When Charlie meets Harriet Michaels (Travis) everything changes. Harriet's not like the others. She's smart, sexy, and crazy about Charlie. This time Charlie is determined to overcome the fears that sabotaged his past relationships. This time, he's ready for some commitment. Sure, Harriet may have her shortcomings - but so what? After all those other women, what's the worst she could be? An axe murderer?
"Easily Mike Myers' best movie." Christopher Null, FilmCritic.com
"Enormously funny!" Jeffrey Lyons, Sneak Previews
"It's hip, lively fun." Joy Carr, Boston Globe
"...so lovably goofy that it's hard to resist." Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress
"Myers is ingratiating and funny (especially in a second role as his own contrary Scottish father)..." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
Editor's Note
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."
| Features | Audio: English, French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Dubbed: French | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 6/17/2008 |
| Running Time: 93 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1993 | | Catalog ID: 25734 | | UPC: 00043396257344 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Memorable Quotes| "My name is John Johnson, but everyone here calls me Vicki." ----Alcatraz Park Ranger (Phil Hartman) | | "They make me horny/Saturday morny/Girls of cartoon/Led me to ruin." ---- Charlie Mackenzie (Mike Myers) reciting one of his poems, which confronts the influence that Betty Rubble and Josie and the Pussycats have had on his life. | | "Kiss your mother, or I'll tear your lungs out." ---- Stuart Mackenzie (Mike Myers) | | "Head! Move that melon of yours and take your mother the paper if you can, hauling that gargantuan cranium about!"---- Stuart Mackenzie (Myers) |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...A welcome surprise....Includes a funny assortment of cameo performers..." 07/30/1993 p.C3Variety
"...It's a delightful and unexpected surprise....The comedy is a hip slice of life about the dilemma of martial commitment with just a pinch of Hitchcock providing the cutting edge..." 08/02/1993 Chicago Sun-Times
"...Myers proves that his success in WAYNE'S WORLD was not a fluke. He is very capable and funny here..." 07/30/1993 p.39 Rolling Stone 7 of 10
As the "I" of the title, Mike Myers is as eager to please as a panting puppy who won't get a treat until he performs his cutest tricks. Myers plays Charlie Mackenzie, a clerk in a San Francisco bookstore who wants to be a poet and a lifelong bachelor. Myers also plays Charlie's dad, a haggis-eating Scot who chews out Charlie for his marriage phobia...This gifted Canadian, from the cast of Saturday Night Live, is a master of mischief in the sketch format. The Wayne's World movie, with Myers and Dana Carvey, worked best as a series of riffs. Axe is also funniest when director Thomas Schlamme, whose first feature was the under-rated Miss Firecracker, keeps things silly and loose. But the plot keeps intruding. Charlie falls for Harriet (Nancy Travis), the owner of a meat market. He proposes, then panics. Could Harriet the butcher be the ax murderer who's been chopping her husbands into hamburger?...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 La-Paglia) 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.
Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
"So I Married an Axe Murderer" is a mediocre movie with a good one trapped inside, wildly signaling to be set free. The good movie involves a droll and eccentric Scottish-American family whose household embraces more of the trappings of Scottishness than your average Glasgow souvenir shop. The bad movie is about a young man's romance with a woman he comes to suspect is an ax murderer...It is one of the film's peculiarities that the same actor, Mike Myers, is the star of both the good and the bad parts. In a dual role, he plays a father and son named Mackenzie. The son, a San Francisco poet named Charlie, stops off at a "foreign meats" shop to buy that unspeakable Scots delicacy called haggis, and falls instantly in love with the butcher, played by Nancy Travis. The father, named Stuart, lives with his wife of many years (Brenda Fricker) in a house where time has stood still since the day he left Scotland. He seems less an immigrant, indeed, than a colonist...If he establishes nothing else in the film, Myers proves that his success in "Wayne's World" was not a fluke. He is very capable and funny here, in roles not unlike those Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness used to play: Eccentrics trapped in worlds that are seemingly normal, yet secretly more bizarre even than their fantasies. - Roger Ebert
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