So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)

Variety
"...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

Washington Post 0 of 10
To watch So I Married an Axe Murderer is to enjoy Michael Myers at work -- or rather, at play. With his adolescently addled reactions to everything, he's essentially Garth from Wayne's World, only a little more grown-up. - Desson Howe
 
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
 
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.