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...Married an Axe Murderer" was just as good as "Wayne's World"--NOT! The new film staring Mike Meyers is as consistent as the latest episodes of "Saturday Night Live"--consistent in lacking real humor, that...

Author: By Christopher J. Hernandez, | Title: Shallow Plot, Disconnected Characters Sink 'Axe Murderer' | 7/30/1993 | See Source »

...film Meyers plays Charlie McKenzie, who has paranoid delusions about all of his girlfriends, except of course the "axe murderer." The only other thing the audience knows about Charlie is that he is a 1990s beatnik cappucino-drinking poet...

Author: By Christopher J. Hernandez, | Title: Shallow Plot, Disconnected Characters Sink 'Axe Murderer' | 7/30/1993 | See Source »

...Axe Murderer" is pure Caricature. Each character performs a little dance in front of the audience without connecting with any of the others. Watching each character on screen for a few frames with their own humor would work fine on a standup comedy show, or "Saturday Night Live," but not in a full-length film...

Author: By Christopher J. Hernandez, | Title: Shallow Plot, Disconnected Characters Sink 'Axe Murderer' | 7/30/1993 | See Source »

...movie was built on one idea that wasn't so bad, marrying an axe murderer. Unfortunately the film goes nowhere from there. The characters have no plot to hold them up, only an undeveloped concept. Without any outside support they're blown over by Meyers' gusts of independent energy...

Author: By Christopher J. Hernandez, | Title: Shallow Plot, Disconnected Characters Sink 'Axe Murderer' | 7/30/1993 | See Source »

...Axe Falls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Is To Be Done? | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

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