Analyze This (1998)
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Billy Crystal, Robert DeNiro, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli, Chazz Palminteri
Screenwriter: Peter Tolan, Harold Ramis, Ken Lonergan
Producer: Jane Rosenthal, Paula Weinstein
Composer: Howard Shore
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Reviews
It's a one-joke movie, but it's an awfully good joke, told here by experts.
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.
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.
Flaws aside, in the end Analyze This comes across with the goods -- crooked guys and straight-up laughs.
Although this comedy has been getting more praise than it deserves, it is nevertheless a solid, funny comedy.
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