Bart Tangredi, Bill Macy, Billy Crystal

Cast Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal together in a film and it should be a sucker's bet as to who's going to be funnier and who's going to give the more nuanced performance. Somehow, though, De Niro ...( read more  read more... )walks away with most of the laughs in Analyze This, a buddy action-comedy about a mob boss (De Niro, natch) suffering from panic attacks who makes a nebbishy shrink (Crystal, natch) an offer he can't refuse--actually, it's not really an offer, it's a command. The good doctor is forced to help the gangster get in touch with his feelings. Had the brilliant TV series The Sopranos not underscored how thin and watery and shticky director-cowriter Harold Ramis's approach to such potentially rich material actually is, the movie--a hit in theaters and De Niro's biggest film ever--would seem more fresh and kicky. De Niro's definitely a hoot as the ever milder menace, and Crystal actually concentrates on giving a credible performance opposite the acting legend (alas, he doesn't turn his character's fear of his patient into inspired comedy, as Alan Arkin did in Grosse Pointe Blank). The conclusion devolves into the requisite gunplay, and Chazz Palminteri and Lisa Kudrow are criminally wasted as an opposing mob boss and Crystal's fiancée, respectively, but overall, it's breezy fun. --David Kronke

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R, 103 min.

Directed by: Harold Ramis

Release Date: March 5, 1999

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DVD Release Date: August 17, 1999

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  • September 25, 2009
    I didn't find it that funny.
  • August 19, 2009
    Quite a funny take on the pre Soprannos Crime boss in need of therapy. A great comedy slant on the genre, which gives De Niro a familiar genre to play with, yet a chance to explore the Comedy genre. An enjoyable performance from Billy Crystal. The first half is definitely bett...( read more)er than the second, but it?s still worth a watch.
  • May 11, 2008
    Billy Crystal and Rober DeNiro shine in this great comedy.
  • February 3, 2008
    Pending Review...

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  • January 21, 2008
    Funny movie with the wonderful Robert De Niro
  • November 8, 2009
    So funny, but with too many uncomfortable parts.
  • October 14, 2009
    Too many swear words. But it was funny. If it was less vulgar I would like it more. (But of course you need to make mobsters seem real so you gotta make em swear a little...)
  • September 19, 2009
    Good plot and acting.
    Would recommend it.
  • September 17, 2009
    From director Harold Ramis (Groundhog Day) comes this smart script put onto a crime film in the tradition of Scorsese and Coppola. Great Godfather reference lol. Almost impossible not to laugh.

    53/100
  • September 11, 2009
    found this a little boring

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June 18, 2002
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

Moments and lines are so perfect that they linger in the mind. full review

May 11, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

It's a treat to watch Robert De Niro -- the goodfella supreme -- tweak every gangster role he's ever played. full review

January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Funny partly because De Niro and Crystal do what we expect them to do, and partly because they don't. full review

January 1, 2000
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

Ramis has made a fleet, unself-conscious, eminently enjoyable picture, where one-liners carom merrily like stray bullets, and where there's casual ease, like the drape of a sharpster's trousers, in th... full review

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