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Summary: Laugh riot!
Review: This crazy movie is a sure cure for the blues and is in fact one the finest parodies onscreen. The very concept is preposterous but then, who has the time to care while howling with laughter? Billy Crystal as an intense psychiatrist and Robert de Niro as a mobster with the blues make a most unlikely pair, and that is just the beginning. Crystal, torn between wanting to help de Niro and at the same time wanting to flee for his life and soon-to-be wife, delivers his lines straight faced the way only he can. One feels maybe he is just that little bit inhibited (over awed perhaps?) when De Niro is in the same scene. However, given a chance to break loose on his own, as in the climactic mobsters meeting, Crystal is absolutely hilarious. The movie though clearly belongs to de Niro whose performnace as a troubled mobster brings down the house. From the time he meets up with Crystal, to having a "curative emotional experience", to (yes!) hauling him down the marriage aisle, de Niro holds sway. In fact, one get the impression that he is thoroughly enjoying himself. If anything, the movie wastes the comic talents of Lisa Kudrow who is kept on a tight rein and not allowed to be her wacky self. I don't think anybody can see this movie and not be convulsed; in fact watching it in a movie hall is a bad idea because the viewers' endless guffaws can make you miss the next punch line!
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Summary: small vocabulary
Review: This was a really funny show with a good plot line, but the vulgarity was unbelievable. I realize that some of it was for comedy, but it really does get pretty bad. If it hadn't been for the constant string of f words it would've been more enjoyable.
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Summary: Crystal and DeNiro??
Review: Being a "shrink in training" and an Italian American, I enjoyed this movie very much. It was nonstop laughs, even thru some very serious and violent scenes. The unlikely pair of Crystal and DeNiro works suprisingly well in this offbeat and very humorous portrayal of the mobster psyche.
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Summary: Tender Mobsters Welcome Distraught Psychiatrist!
Review: I am not a huge Robert De Niro fan, and I am generally even less excited about seeing Billy Crystal grace the screen. Nothing personal, Mr. Crystal, you are a genuine talent, just a little over exposed in your saturation of the market. In the interest of "keeping an open mind", I decided to give this movie a try with particular consideration to a premise with seemingly unlimited potential for comic effect. As it turned out, Crystal's subtle portrayal of a polite and contemplative psychiatrist forced to deal with the demanding, "in your face" behavior of an ultra sensitive mobster . . . Well, the very idea is preposterous, and watching it unfold with tough guy De Niro alternating between fits of obnoxious anger and emotional distress (sobbing and the like) results in a case or two of falling out of your seat laughter (and I am not a person who laughs easily)! To make matters worse, Crystal realizes the absolute necessity for HIMSELF to be in control! He tries desperately to take charge (after all, his life is on the line!), but soon finds it impossible with DeNiro, and later even his sidekick (a slow, overweight, "just following orders", old school, mobster type) popping in and out of the good doctor's personal life like welcome customers at the local whorehouse! By the way, this prune faced, older gentleman is funny enough to actually start stealing the show at some points! I suppose blatant, outrageous violence and extremely foul language should be expected in a movie like this, but it detracted from much of the pure enjoyment. The screenplay was less than stellar, but the dialogue was crisp with a touch of good character development. Not unlike De Niro's character, the story falls apart a bit toward the end.
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: In Analyze this Robert De Niro plays a mob boss that is losing it so he calls Billy Crystal who plays a shrink for help. He always is needing help at the wrong time and is constantly putting up with Robert De Niro's you know what. I gave this movie a 5 star rating because great comedys are very hard to find and I found one. This had no crude humor it was all just straight up funny comedy for anybody that likes a good comedy you should definitely get this.
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Summary: A panicky mob boss with issues! lol
Review: When this movie first was released in the movie theaters, I never really had an intrest to go and watch it.. But when I was with my family, my aunt wouldn't stop talking about it! She must of saw it at least 3 times in the theater lol..My whole family saw this movie, and I was probally the only one who had no clue what they were talking about! They kept on saying how funny it was and how funny Robert De Niro acted.. So when it was on hbo, I decided to watch it.. and I liked it just as much as they did lol.. Robert De Niro plays a mob boss who chooses to go to Billy Crystal, who is a theropist, because he gets panicky and has issues! lol.. Both of Robert De Niro's and Billy Crystal's performances are very funny and well done.. and Lisa Kudrow is a great comedic actress.. I wouldn't mind watching this movie again... You should go out and rent it tonight!
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Summary: UNIVERSAL APPEAL OF COMEDY ON MAFIA CHIEF'S/SHRINK'S CRISIS
Review: Recently, I played the DVD of ANAYLZE THIS to a VERY small group of nine international scientists, students and spouses huddled around my Macintosh Apple G3 Powerbook computer. Does that sound like a pathetic "audience?" Not at all.Robert DeNiro and Billy Crystal are just as well known in Argentina, Israel and Switzerland as in the United States. All of us howled through the movie. Of course, some of the lines were not understood when the jargon became too New York Mafia-ese. By and large, the timing, body language and plot lines had literally universal appeal. The next morning at breakfast, the above people were still laughing at scenes from ANALYZE THIS seen the night before. So in conclusion, this movie appeals to young and old from all corners of the globe ... and whether seen on a silver screen in the theater, a super big screen TV or a laptop computer ANALYZE THIS is a terrific comedy with literally universal appeal.
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Summary: Hilarious dialogue
Review: Granted - there is no theme, no plot, and one wishes that the writers did not have to use the "f word" in every line of the script. However, the dialogue is hilarious, spoofing psychotherapy, Mafia films, and the actors themselves. The sequence where the psychiatrist and patient discuss the Oedipus complex, as one example, had me roaring, as did the "dream analysis" which dealt with the doctor's dreaming of a sequence from the Godfather.Robert DeNiro masterfully manages to spoof his own past performances. Don't miss this one - the laughter level is quite high, even if the film is no literary masterpiece.
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Summary: No need to analyze this for laughs!
Review: "Analyze This," starring Robert DeNiro and Billy Crystal is one of the best films I've ever seen. It's one of the best gangster comedies ever which ranks up there with my other two faves, "My Blue Heaven" and "The Whole Nine Yards." DeNiro is a gangster suffering from anxiety attacks and Crystal is his therapist. Need I say more? Watch and laugh. Check out the other two flicks I mentioned too. You won't be dissapointed.
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Summary: Okay. You'll Love It
Review: Which came first, "The Sopranos", the great HBO series hit, or this film about mobsters. It doesn't really matter, because this is a fun film to watch. Billy Crystal does an excellent job as a reluctant psychiatrist, alternately trying to evade and to help kingpin Mafia (there is no such thing) guy, Robert DeNiro. Of course Deniro is having panic attacks, which is his problem, and his mobster enemies and former friends chase him for fear of what he might "squeal" and Crystal frequently runs with him. Crystal's performance at the big mobster meeting representing DeNiro is priceless. Crystal's marriage ceremony to Lisa Kudrow is ruined several times in some hysterical scenes. Crystal's lines are delivered in his matchless timing and comic believability. De Niro does a great job, becoming a less than tough mobster. Lisa Kudrow looks pretty but a little out of place. Her lines are funny, similar to her part on the TV sitcom "Friends", but somehow she lacks the spontaneity, which makes her so funny on the TV show. Maybe each scene was concentrating on someone else, because she could have been funnier in the way she can put across a little nutty humor. By the way, this is a "spoof" and any resemblance to characters and plots on the "Sopranos" might be intentional, but naturally the storyline is not serious. People do get killed, but "not in a bad way."
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