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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 shrink to help him get to the bottom of the problem.... 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

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

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08/22/08
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The comedy is heavy and the use of the stars lazy and cliched...

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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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A near-flawlessly paced comedy.

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03/03/02
Charles Taylor
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A witty, smart and knowing picture that marks a kind of return to form for both its male stars.

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01/01/00
Kim Newman
Empire Magazine
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Sometimes very funny, but wears its sudden tone swings and flurries of profanities like a pair of cement shoes...

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08/07/08
Mark Halverson
Sacramento News & Review
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It's a one-joke movie, but it's an awfully good joke, told here by experts.

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07/23/07
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com
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Not since Midnight Run has Mr. De Niro been afforded such a perfect opportunity to flex his comedic muscles.

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07/14/07
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound
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[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.

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04/27/07
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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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.

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10/30/06
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons
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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.

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12/06/05
Tom Meek
Film Threat
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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.

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07/21/05
Jeff Millar
Houston Chronicle
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Robert De Niro gets the best out of his performance as the psychologically- challenged gangster.

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04/09/05
Robin Clifford
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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.

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08/07/04
Peter Rainer
New York Magazine
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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.

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10/23/03
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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A witty, upbeat comedy that is more concerned with making its audience laugh than any other of its cinematic virtues (or lack thereof).

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05/22/03
Eugene Novikov
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05/20/03
Leonard Schwarz
Palo Alto Weekly
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Nothing new, especially for its stars, but it's good fun nonetheless.

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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
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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.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/08/02
Tom Meek
Film Threat
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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.

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11/07/02
James Rocchi
Netflix
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Flaws aside, in the end Analyze This comes across with the goods -- crooked guys and straight-up laughs.

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10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
Cincinnati Enquirer
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