After numerous breakups over what his friends and family consider shallow and a way to avoid commitment, the hard-to-please aspiring poet Mike Myers finally finds himself the perfect match in Nancy Travis... there's only one flaw... she might be an axe murderer! Very Mike Myers humor with lots of buddy comedians in supporting roles or cameos, all taking place in a so-very-'90s San Francisco—this film only works because all the pieces fall into the right place. Surprisingly light-hearted given its title, only getting dark in the third act. Killer (pun?) soundtrack. Travis actually cut off the tip of her finger during a scene at the butcher shop.★★★ (out of four)

When I first went to watch this movie I was not expecting much as after Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery - actually I don't expect much from a Mike Myers movie. Also with the title and the blurb on the back I saw the movie as being quite predictable - namely a panicky male running around a house trying to escape an insane axe murderer that he has happened to marry.This is not the case. So, I Married an Axe Murderer is actually quite an entertaining movie. The movie focuses on the relationship between Mike Myer's character, who happens to have a wild imagination and believes that all of the women that he has had a relationship with has some sinister secret and because of this he must break up with them. He believed that an unemployed woman worked for the Mafia simply because she did not have a job.Anyway, he happens to meet this one woman as he wonders into a butcher and decides to develop a relationship with her. All the while the movie builds up some paranoia pointing to this woman. It leads lots of clues making us think that she is the axe-murderer that murders her husbands on her honeymoons, but will then suddenly pull back with other evidence that she is not. By the end of the movie we are not really sure if she is a murderer or not, but Myers believes that she is.The closing part of the movie is very surrealistic, building up and trying to visualise the fear that Myers feels as he prepares to confront this woman. In a way the movie is predictable, but it is really well done, and those who expect it to be bad will be surprised.The one idea that comes from here is the idea that marriage and death being two sides of the same coin. As somebody once said to me when I pointed out that the difference between a Shakespearian comedy and a tragedy is that at the end of a comedy everybody gets married and at the end of a tragedy everybody dies, 'so, there is no difference then'. I used to think that linking marriage and death was an abomination, but when I think about it, I come to understand that it is not. In fact, it is probably a better way to look at it because it helps us understand how this one ceremony will bring about a change to our lives.I liked this movie, it is not the best movie that I have ever seen, but it is entertaining.

I hate to be the turd in the punchbowl here, a role to which I am accustomed, but just what is it with all the enthusiasm for this lame flick? I just don't find Mike Myers funny at all. I don't know whether it's his comic persona (or lack of same) or the heavy-as-lead "comic" writing. Whatever (then again I can't figure out why people think Leslie Nielsen is such a hoot, either). Myers is lame enough in the role of Charlie, but his portrayal of his dad, Stuart, is head-scratchingly incomprehensible. I didn't find Anthony Lapaglia as the cop very funny either, and his lines also seemed lame. And I'll never figure out why the great Alan Arkin signed on to this dog; he must have needed the work at the time. This is supposed to be some sort of "cult classic." Go figure.

Of course this movie is not that funny as Austin Powers series, actually I remember only few moments which were really funny, there were lots of jokes, but most of them were not very funny because they were already used in many other films, but this movie is great in some other terms. The story wasn't anything special or original, but the characters were great. The actors did a great job especially Nancy Travis, I think she was a great choice for this role, because she looked kinda mysterious in this film, just like Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct. The soundtrack really raised the quality of this film. This movie has some originality, it started of good, but the ending was very predictable and banal. Anyways I still think that this movie is very entertaining.