SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

The only reasons to watch this film are:(a) you are a Mike Myers scholar, and you need to learn the origin of some of his most oft-repeated character lines in his boffo, bonzo (totally hilarious) Scottish idiom; or(b) you are a Mike Myers scholar, and you need an exhibit illustrating your to-be-published thesis on how Mike Myers cannot act a romantic lead role (this would be exhibit A, his inability to create even one spark with Tia Carrere in Wayne's World is your Exhibit B). So I Married . . . has so much promise at the start. Gorgeous, looping, looming, sweeping shots of San Francisco at night, a rollicking soundtrack opener--the jangly, infectious indie pop song the LA's "There She Goes"--and a funny opening line from Myers about a latte the size of a pizza. What a film this might be, the viewer thinks.But no. Despite a couple rip-roaringly funny character scenes, with Myers playing his own, cartoonishly Scottish, father, some funny bits about a butcher's shop, and very good work by Anthony LaPaglia in a supporting role, the film more or less flops. The funny sequences are fleeting, and they get buried by other scenes where Myers is supposed to be, in turns, dashing, or lusty, or trapped like a winking, assured Cary Grant in the midst of an unfolding whodunit. And in those other scenes, and there are lots of them, Myers doesn't deliver, he does not sell himself or the story with his acting. Myers scholars, this film is for you. All others, let an SNL nerd do the Scottish thing in homage and you'll have seen the movie.

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 can't believe this isn't rated higher. This movie has so much going for it I can't list it all. From Mike Myers portrayal of his dad "HEAD, PAPER, NOW" to the awesome job Phil Hartman did as Vicki. When it came out in the theaters I watched it and immediately sat through it again because I was laughing so hard I knew I missed stuff. Here it is almost 20 years later and I still laugh whenever I watch this. I wish they could do a sequel of it 20 years later or something just to see him revive this character. Lots of great shots of San Francisco also. If I show this movie to someone and they don't laugh or it doesn't become a favorite of theirs I don't stay friends with them. A good sense of humor and being able to understand the subtleties behind the obvious humor of this movie is a mark of an intelligent mind and I don't have time for lack wits who laugh at the 3 stooges kind of humor and can't fathom why this is comedy gold.

I first saw this film when it was fairly new (c. late summer 1993). In fact, the main reason I went to see it was because it was playing at a discount (dollar-type) cinema, having just left the regular theaters. I was also in need of a "pick-me-up" during that period of my life. I had seen the TV ad for the movie, and thought it looked dumb... But after seeing the film, it became one of my all-time favorites (and I even bought the soundtrack album - on cassette). I saw portions of it (on TV) a couple times in following years, and bought the video in 2002. It's unfortunate it was not a critical success, and yes, it does have flaws... but fellow fans will attest to its appeal and "magic". It is, I feel, a genuine funny (and truly fun), "feel-good" movie. Now that I think, it's been perhaps three years since I last saw it... so I'm due to watch it again.