So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
Directed by Thomas Schlamme
Just after a bad breakup, Charlie MacKenzie falls for lovely butcher Harriet Michaels and introduces her to his parents. But, as voracious consumers of sensational tabloids, his parents soon come to suspect that Harriet is actually a notorious serial killer -- "Mrs. X" -- wanted in connection with a string of bizarre honeymoon killings. Thinking his parents foolish, Charlie proposes to Harriet. But while on his honeymoon with her, he begins to fear they were right.
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On their very first night, Schmidt chats up Maya and ends up in a poetry slam for his efforts (Hill does a riff on Mike Myers' routine from "So I Married an Axe Murderer").
The great talent that is Alan Arkin adds yet another classic comedic interpretation to an impressive list ("The In-Laws," "Edward Scissorhands," "So I Married an Axe Murderer," "Slums of Beverly Hills") with the profane, hedonistic grandfather who tells the plump, bespectacled Olive that she is the most beautiful girl in the world.
Myers reprises his Scottish accent from "So I Married an Axe Murderer" and "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" to great comic effect, and Murphy has never been in better form than as "a donkey with an edge."
Could someone please tell Mike Myers that after countless "If it's nae Scottish, it's crap" SNL sketches and his showboating roles as the apoplectic dad in So I Married an Axe Murderer and Fat Bastard in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, his mock-Scottish accent no longer equals instant hilarity?
Myers imbues the ogre with the same Scottish voice he has used on many previous occasions (the father in So I Married an Axe Murderer, Fat Bastard in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, and several SNL sketches).