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Analyze This (1999)

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Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 101
Fresh: 69 | Rotten: 32

Analyze This is a satisfying comedy with great performances by De Niro and Crystal.

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Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 8

Analyze This is a satisfying comedy with great performances by De Niro and Crystal.

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Movie Info

In the same year that a hit cable television series, The Sopranos, successfully mined the same premise, this comedy about a mobster seeking advice from a psychiatrist was a box office winner for director Harold Ramis. Billy Crystal stars as Dr. Ben Sobel, a New York shrink who's becoming a little bored with his upscale but neurotic clientele. Into Sobel's practice comes a guy with legitimate problems, Mafia kingpin Paul Viti (Robert DeNiro), a godfather who is being reduced to tears and panic

R, 1 hr. 48 min.

Comedy

Peter Tolan, Harold Ramis, Ken Lonergan

Aug 17, 1999

Warner Bros. Pictures

Cast

All Critics (104) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (70) | Rotten (32) | DVD (17)

[De Niro and Crystal] would seem to be perfectly cast as this oddest of odd couples, but something has gone wrong with the comic chemistry.

April 27, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Observer | Comment
New York Observer
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What De Niro ends up doing is simply burlesquing himself, much as he would do if he were guest-hosting Saturday Night Live.

July 21, 2005 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
Houston Chronicle
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What we learn -- yet again -- is that potentially terrific comedies are often whacked by filmmakers who feel the need to spread a little therapy themselves.

August 7, 2004 Full Review Source: New York Magazine | Comment
New York Magazine
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Moments and lines are so perfect that they linger in the mind.

June 18, 2002 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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It's a treat to watch Robert De Niro -- the goodfella supreme -- tweak every gangster role he's ever played.

May 11, 2001 Comment
Rolling Stone
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Slick and rambunctious!

January 1, 2000 Comment
Chicago Tribune
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Thanks to three very strong writers...and the willpower of its leads, Analyze This turns out to be an amusing piffle. [Blu-ray]

May 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | Comment

It all ends in a hail of bullets and profanities -- but the laughs keep coming.

August 22, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

Sometimes very funny, but wears its sudden tone swings and flurries of profanities like a pair of cement shoes...

August 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | Comment
Sacramento News & Review

It's a one-joke movie, but it's an awfully good joke, told here by experts.

July 23, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

Not since Midnight Run has Mr. De Niro been afforded such a perfect opportunity to flex his comedic muscles.

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | Comment
Big Picture Big Sound

Even though it's only March, Analyze This is going to be the comedy to beat this year - nothing else so far has come close.

October 30, 2006 Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | Comment
Dark Horizons

The comedy is heavy and the use of the stars lazy and cliched...

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Robert De Niro gets the best out of his performance as the psychologically- challenged gangster.

April 9, 2005 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | Comment
Reeling Reviews

In Midnight Run (1988), De Niro and Charles Grodin made a wonderful team, but the pair in Analyze This doesn't seem to click in the same way.

October 23, 2003 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

A witty, upbeat comedy that is more concerned with making its audience laugh than any other of its cinematic virtues (or lack thereof).

May 22, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Blather | Comment
Film Blather

Nothing new, especially for its stars, but it's good fun nonetheless.

February 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Quips Online | Comment
Film Quips Online

Unfortunately for every gag that DeNiro and Crystal pull off -- and they do have an effective comedic chemistry -- the script strands them in eddies of frivolity.

December 8, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
Film Threat

You don't go into Analyze This expecting to be surprised; you go into it hoping to be amused. Using that yardstick, the film is a terrific success.

November 7, 2002 Full Review Source: Netflix | Comment
Netflix

Flaws aside, in the end Analyze This comes across with the goods -- crooked guys and straight-up laughs.

October 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer | Comment
Cincinnati Enquirer

It makes for an interesting balance of laughs and shoot-outs, but what really makes it fly is the perfect casting of Robert De Niro, the quintessential big screen gangster.

September 10, 2002 Full Review Source: Montreal Film Journal | Comment
Montreal Film Journal
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Audience Reviews for Analyze This

Billy Crystal and Rober DeNiro shine in this great comedy.

May 11, 2008
jmanard52

Super Reviewer

Dr. Ben Sobel: What is my goal here, to make you a happy, well-adjusted gangster? "New York's most powerful gangster is about to get in touch with his feelings"Analyze This is a mob-comedy done right. It is an excellent spoof of gangster films, with two great and funny performances from Robert De Niro and Billy

August 7, 2011
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Melvin White

Super Reviewer

    1. Ben Sobel: I'm also known to the people who know me the best as, The Fucking Doctor.
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