| Analyze That | | Cast : | Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow | | Director : | Harold Ramis | | Studio : | Warner Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | December 06, 2002 | | DVD Released Date : | June 01, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | March 22, 2005 | | Summary | PURE TORTURE!!!! | Content
 | I thought the original was pretty good,
but this sequel was pure torture to watch!
I'de rather eat a giant roach, than watch
this movie again! Without question, one of
the worst comedys ever written! |
| Rating | | | Date | February 24, 2005 | | Summary | "Analyze That" Review | Content
| I don't see the deal with everyone saying it's a bad movie. It's not bad at all, infact I almost perfer Analyze That over Analyze This. If you haven't seen this, I'd reccomend atleast renting it. It doesn't have as many 'laughing out loud' parts, but it still is a great comedy. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 22, 2005 | | Summary | "Back in therapy" | Content
| While visiting some family in Utah a few years ago we decided to rent a few movies to pass the unforgivably hot mid-summer weather. We ended up renting "Analyze That" and boy, what a mistake that was! We were expecting at least a mildly funny sequel to 1999's "Analyze This." The potential was there, it's not as if writers (of course it's never a good sign to see numerous writers) Peter Tolan, Peter Steinfeld, and Harold Ramis didn't have decent material to work with; Robert DeNiro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, and a funny and entertaining plotline regarding mobsters and therapy. However, this being Hollywood and all, another sequel was botched. It's because of movies like these that sequels have such a bad reputation.
Despite a few genuine laughs in the first twenty minutes or so regarding DeNiro and some "fish out of water" situations, the movie seemed to go downhill soon after. The jokes became few and between as the film laboriously plowed its way through an over-the-top heist setup and execution that felt about as inspired as "Crossroads." Now either they ran out of jokes, they didn't have enough time to invest in an actual story, or the material itself has been played out in so many different ways already ("The Sopranos", "The Whole 9 Yards", "Mickey Blue Eyes", etc. etc.), that there was simply nothing left to write about. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 20, 2005 | | Summary | A painfully unfunny and unnecessary sequel | Content
| Analyze That reunites the main cast from Analyze This and opens with Paul Vitti (De Niro) in prison and he wants out. What's he do to get out? Fakes insanity of course. How's he do that? By singing West Side Story songs. No, I'm not kidding. And the movie just gets worse from there. Vitti is placed into the caring hands of his old pal Dr. Sobel (Billy Crystal) and laughs are nowhere to be found. I honestly think I only laughed once during the whole 96 minutes that actually felt more like 179 minutes. There's a small scene where Vitti is trying to take on normal jobs, but his mafia mindset causes a few chuckles. That's about all that's funny in this disaster. A good subtitle for the movie would be "Cashin' the Paycheck". That's all everyone seems to be doing in the flick. Everyone just seems so miserable, and with that cloud hanging over things laughter can't develop. A comedy without laugher is a total failure, and if it were for those extremely rare moments in this flick there it is possible to dig up something funny, Analyze That would be a failure.
In the end, it's a sequel to a simply average comedy that lacks any of the sparks or intelligence that kept the original from total despair. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 16, 2004 | | Summary | Quintesential Mafioso Comedy, With Laughs & Obviously Fans! | Content
| The fact that Analyze That has as dreary average as three stars bemuses me. Ok I won't give it five but it's funny and entertaining, and it's got DeNiro. Billy Crystal has a habit of annoying me in many of his films, but here...he's good - 'your good you, your good!' - and DeNiro obviously frames this film.
After being put in prison Paul Vitti (DeNiro) claims insanity, a cry for Dr. Ben Sobel's (Crystal) help. Sobel agrees that he is insane and will take him in his custody, little does he know Vitti has a plan...
There are some truely hilarious moments, for example DeNiro walks downstairs in Crystal's house, Jewish majority, with just a dressing gound showing his privates. He then claims - 'what ya gotta do for some bacon round here eh?' Joe Viterelli is superb as the slow moving, slow thinking original mobster named 'Jelly' who really brings a spark to the show. Along with some other good performances from Lisa Kudrow and Brian Rogalski the film is set.
Honestly funny, disagree with the mass one/two star reviews. |
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