Perennial heavy Viterelli shines as De Niro's craggy buttonman!
Analyze This (1998)
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Reviews Counted:101
Fresh:68
Rotten:33
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: Analyze This is a satisfying comedy with great performances by De Niro and Crystal.
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Mob boss Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro) is having heart attacks. At least that's what he thinks. When his doctors inform him that he is suffering from anxiety attacks, he is forced to track down a... Mob boss Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro) is having heart attacks. At least that's what he thinks. When his doctors inform him that he is suffering from anxiety attacks, he is forced to track down a shrink to help him get to the bottom of the problem. Billy Crystal costars as neurotic psychiatrist Ben Sobol, who is manipulated into treating the macho Mafia man, with hysterical results. Just as Ben and eager fiancée (Lisa Kudrow) are about to enter nuptial bliss, they are suddenly faced with a 24-hour responsibility to a mobster who won't take no for an answer. The hilarious hijinks ruin their first wedding and threaten to ruin the relationship as Paul battles his personal demons with the help of the initially unwilling shrink. As the two men's professional and private worlds collide, they are forced to realize their similarities as they join forces to battle the FBI and the impending threat of a Mafia takeover. Director Harold Ramis has crafter an intelligent, witty comedy that shows off the comic instincts of De Niro as never before. [More]
Starring: Billy Crystal, Robert DeNiro, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli
Starring: Billy Crystal, Robert DeNiro, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli, Chazz Palminteri, Bill Macy, Leo Rossi, Rebecca Schull, Kyle Sabihy, Molly Shannon
Director: Harold Ramis
Director: Harold Ramis
Screenwriter: Peter Tolan, Harold Ramis, Ken Lonergan
Producer: Jane Rosenthal, Paula Weinstein
Composer: Howard Shore
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Reviews for Analyze This
It all ends in a hail of bullets and profanities -- but the laughs keep coming.
[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.
Analyze This makes the mistake of anchoring its whole story on an amusing but thin premise.
Director Harold Ramis keeps the gangsters real and funny at the same time.
The movie never rises above trite and obvious gags: bodies in car trunks, lunkhead henchmen, idiot feds with their wires crossed.
...a movie so sluggish and corny, not even a script written by Shakespeare could have saved it.
After a very funny first half-hour into Analyze This, it becomes painfully apparent that it's really just a skit masquerading as a feature film.
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