ANALYZE THIS(1999)

This was pretty funny in parts! But I remember
it as being a little slow. It has Bily Crystal, who
I really like, and Robert DeNiro and Lisa Kudrow
(from Friends) who is actually the funniest one here!! B

From a reviewer at Amazon.com:

Cast Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal together
in a film and it should be a sucker's bet as to
who's going to be funnier and who's going to
give the more nuanced performance. Somehow,
though, De Niro walks away with most of the
laughs in Analyze This, a buddy action-comedy
about a mob boss (De Niro, natch) suffering
from panic attacks who makes a nebbishy shrink
(Crystal, natch) an offer he can't refuse--actually,
it's not really an offer, it's a command.

The good doctor is forced to help the gangster
get in touch with his feelings. Had the brilliant
TV series The Sopranos not underscored how
thin and watery and shticky director-cowriter
Harold Ramis's approach to such potentially
rich material actually is, the movie--a hit in
theaters and De Niro's biggest film ever--would
seem more fresh and kicky. De Niro's definitely
a hoot as the ever milder menace, and Crystal
actually concentrates on giving a credible
performance opposite the acting legend (alas,
he doesn't turn his character's fear of his patient
into inspired comedy, as Alan Arkin did in Grosse
Pointe Blank). The conclusion devolves into the
requisite gunplay, and Chazz Palminteri and
Lisa Kudrow are criminally wasted as an opposing
mob boss and Crystal's fiance, respectively,
but overall, it's breezy fun. --David Kronke

Actually about the same as the last movie! Same
people in the same roles, even the kid returns!
Could have been better, but still some funny spots! B-

From a reviewer at Amazon.com:

Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal, along with the
director Harold Ramis, return with this unimaginative
sequel to their 1999 mobster-in-therapy hit. This
time, De Niro's gangster shtick is embarrassingly
stiff (at one point he flounces around singing a
tune from "West Side Story"), and Crystal is
unable to produce anything witty from his
rapid-fire psychobabble. The film, sloppy and
joyless, even strands the great Lisa Kudrow,
with her perfect comic timing. -Bruce Diones
Copyright 2006 The New Yorker

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