I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Charlie Mackenzie (Mike Myers) has bad luck with women or just paranoid with bad excuses. He lives in San Francisco and his best friend Tony Giardino (Anthony LaPaglia) is a bad undercover cop. Then he falls for butcher shop owner Harriet (Nancy Travis) who could be too good to be true. His mother reads the tabloids and tells him about Mrs X who kills all her husbands on their honeymoon. With some weird warning signs, Charlie breaks up with her. When somebody confesses to one of the murders, he begs to come back to her. It all comes to a head on their honeymoon.There are some wacky characters and may just be the prelude to the Austin Powers movies. Myers is doing the wacky father that has the similar tone to an old and angry Austin Powers. The parent characters are a load of fun. Phil Hartman is great as the stone faced Alcatraz guide Vicky. Anthony LaPaglia has difficulties with the comedic role. It needs a real comedian to do the job properly. As for the romantic chemistry, Mike Myers feels too childish next to Nancy Travis. They have good friend chemistry but I wouldn't call it sexual chemistry. She's a little too serious of a actress. She is too straight and her character needs more jokes. Again a real comedian would help in this role.

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.

Manic in a way that even Austin Powers couldn't match, this vehicle for then-recent SNL grad Mike Myers hasn't aged quite as well as I'd expected. Myers delivers with ease when he's under the guise of a wild, colorful character - his best scenes are as a boisterous, drunken caricature of a father under heavy makeup - but comes off as insecure and off-putting in the more straightforward leading role. For every joke that lands, Myers ricochets three or four duds off his companions' foreheads, lending the impression that he's always on stage and robbing his turn as well-intentioned poet Charlie of a meaningful connection with the audience. Clunky, distracting post-production work and an excessive dose of early '90s pop culture also prove to be tricky obstacles, dating the material and lending the impression that it wasn't quite polished enough for a final release. When it's working, few films from the era are so consistently funny, but those sporadic dots of brilliance aren't quite enough to compensate for the shaky, timid nature of the rest of the story. A great premise with some moments of pure genius, it's probably best enjoyed as a series of expertly trimmed clips on YouTube.

I saw this film on cable not long after its release and remember enjoying it. But like most films, it didn't leave a lasting impression. For some reason I have had a DVD copy of the film in my collection for some time now, probably a b-day gift or some such, and I never watch it…Last night, sixteen years after it first appeared, I watched it again.Sometimes, a piece of art takes time and multiple exposures for its audience to fully appreciate its quality. This is definitely the case with this film. For me, a film should show me new characters or new settings or give me a new way of looking at a recognizable situation. So often films just give their audience the same tired stereotypical content; Characters that differ in name only from other films and plot lines that so closely follow previous successful productions that I'm surprised there aren't more lawsuits between artists. Such is not the case with "So I Married an Axe Murderer". With the tiny exception of the girlfriend of the chief supporting character, every role can accurately be described as unique. A butcher shop owner/operator (Nancy Travis) for a leading lady that may be wielding her cleaver in the off hours plus her curiously flighty sister (Amanda Plummer). A suburban San Francisco family of intensely Scottish decent that includes the youngest son with an enormous head and a Mother (Brenda Fricker) who has no qualms about French kissing her eldest son's best friend just to assure herself he's good at it. There's a light aircraft charter pilot (Steven Wright) that probably shouldn't have been awarded a license and a slightly embittered, slightly maniacal former Alcatraz guard/now tour guide (Phil Hartman) who makes me laugh just to look at him on screen. There's an undercover cop best friend (Anthony LaPaglia) that wanted to be Starsky or Hutch but instead learns the job really entails filling out a lot of forms and his boss (Alan Arkin) who, if it wasn't for Mike Myer's performance, would have stolen the movie with his portrayal of a Police Chief that can only be described as the antithesis of that character that we've seen so many times in films and TV.About Mike Myers: Intensely likable. Free and easy on film at a young age he creates two wonderful characters that make us laugh hard throughout. As the lead Charlie McKenzie and as his father Stuart, Myers keeps the film moving with his paranoid yet irresistible charm from Charlie and his Robin Williamsesque quips that flow from his two characters accomplishing the most difficult task for such a performance; namely, entertain without distracting from the story.I've added this film to my "Favorites" list and recommend it highly. If you liked "You Can't Take it With You" you'll love this more contemporary yet equally quirky film of love and family.