Charlie is a fairly average guy. He has had quite a few relationships in his day, but just when they start to get real serious, he finds something wrong (real or imaginative) with the woman. In fact, his best friend, Tony (Anthony LaPaglia), is just about tired of his lack of commitment.
On his way to his parent's house one day, Charlie stops at a local butcher shop to order some haggis. That is when he meets, and becomes smitten with, Harriet (Nancy Travis) a funny, beautiful butcher. After a day of helping her at the shop, the two start to have a serious relationship. And to sweeten the pot, Charlie's parents love her and Harriet's sister seems to like him as well. So what could go wrong?
Nothing, at least until Charlie starts putting parts of Harriet's past together with a serial killer known as the Mrs. X. She goes around the country, marrying guys and killing them on their honeymoon. So far, there are three instances, and all the locations match up to where Harriet has lived before. To make matters worse, there are other hints that she is connected to these victims. But maybe it's all in Charlie's head? He tries to ignore the signs, but eventually calls off the relationship.
But when Tony tells Charlie that someone has turned themselves in for one of the Mrs. X murders, Charlie rushes back to Harriet and begs for forgiveness. Realizing what he almost lost, he asks her to marry him at his parent's 30th anniversary dinner. The couple gets hitched without a hitch and they are off to their honeymoon. Unfortunately for Charlie, it seems that the woman who confessed to the Mrs. X murders was a bit crazy and also confessed to killing Lincoln. Could it be that Harriet really is a serial killer?
As for special features, this disc is severally lacking. Besides previews, the only other thing it has to offer is a new feature Sony is putting out called BD Live. This is an application that gets installed on your Blu-ray player that lets you download previews and trailers for upcoming releases, select bonus features for other products and a few other tidbits that should wet your appetite for future products. What is interesting about this is, it is sort of the answer to going back and watching old discs and seeing old previews on it. Every time you load up the program, it gets an updated list of available previews, so that annoying "Coming Soon" preview that has been out for years will, possibly, go away in the future.
The big downside seems to be loading time. When I clicked on the BD Live icon (for both this and Men in Black), it took about a minute before my system responded, and another five or so of loading before the application came up. Granted, the first time I did it, the program had to install and get the latest content. But it wasn't any faster (or at least not noticeably so) in subsequent trips into BD Live. To make matters worse, you better be committed to pulling up the program when you click on it, because if you decide it is taking too long to load, there is no going back until the popup menu is fully displayed. But this is one of the first movies to support this feature, and I am hoping for improvements in speed and functionality with future versions.
This was the first time I had seen So I Married an Axe Murderer in a long time. I had forgotten how refreshing and funny the movie was. I had also forgotten the twist of an ending, and was pleasantly surprised by it once again. As an older Mike Myers film, it's just enjoyable all around. While not the best movie around, it is still fun and mostly family friendly.
