So I Married an Axe Murderer

Mike Myers's first feature role without his Wayne's World wig is a performance at odds with the best interests of the movie. Myers plays a single guy who always manages to find something seriously wrong with each of his girlfriends. His new love (Nancy Travis), a butcher, may be the perfect woman, except for one thing: she might be a "black-widow" killer who prefers dispatching husbands with a sharp instrument. Robbie Fox's original script has a fine shape and strong, black-comedy material within it. But Myers creates unnecessary dissonance by playing a variety of characters (including an irascible Scotsman like the one he often played on Saturday Night Live) and accenting his skills as an improvisational comic (such as impersonating the soothing cadences of a massage therapist). It's not that Myers isn't funny doing all that, but it has nothing to do with the movie. Directed by Thomas Schlamme (Miss Firecracker). --Tom Keogh

Movie Details

Cast: Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, Brenda Fricker, Amanda Plummer, Anthony LaPaglia, Phil Hartman, Debi Mazar, Steven Wright
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Running time: 93 mins
DVD Aspect Ratios: Widescreen 1.85:1, Standard 1.33:1

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DVD Features:

• Color
• Closed-captioned
• Dolby
• Widescreen

International rating:

Europe: 15
Australia: M

DVD International release dates:
North America: Feb 24, 04