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Analyze That

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Analyze That reviews
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3.8 User Score:

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Based on 34 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy

Written by: Peter Steinfeld
Harold Ramis
Peter Tolan (also characters)
Kenneth Lonergan (characters)

Directed by: Harold Ramis

Release Date:
Theatrical: December 6, 2002
DVD: May 13, 2003

Running Time: 95 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for language and some sexual content

Starring Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli, Joe D'Onofrio, Cathy Moriarty, Brian Rogalski, and Reg Rogers

As mob boss Paul Vitti (De Niro) is nearing the end of his term in Sing Sing, his former psychotherapist Ben Sobel (Crystal) gets called in to consult on the case. (Warner Bros.)

What The Critics Said

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80

LA Weekly John Patterson

It's clever, vulgar and fully committed to making us howl with laughter. If only all sequels were this much fun.

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63

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

Turns out to be a Hollywood sequel of surpassing silliness and wasted talent.

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63

ReelViews James Berardinelli

A genial and unremarkable comedy with its share of tepid laughs. It's a significantly weaker offering than its edgier, livelier older brother.

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63

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

With any sitcom, the freshness is ultimately in the writing, and I think the jokes are better here than in Analyze This, and the actors are more comfortable together. I don't know if De Niro is softening or has lost his edge, but he now seems content mocking himself.

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60

Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis

Even when they don't always add up, these are movies in which De Niro can shrug off the burden of being Robert De Niro. Where the star who was Travis Bickle can again freely assume the part of the great character actor -- if only this time to ask, "You laughin' at me?"

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58

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

Feels forced every step of the way. Ultimately it's the kind of under-inspired, overblown enterprise that gives Hollywood sequels a bad name.

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50

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

The sequel, also directed by Harold Ramis, is painfully padded.

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50

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

It's safe to say that without De Niro Analyze This and That couldn't even exist; or rather, if they did, they would be unwatchable. De Niro is that important to the mix.

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50

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

What we get in Analyze That are several talented actors delivering their familiar screen personas in the service of an idiotic plot.

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50

Salon.com Charles Taylor

The most surprising thing about the movie is the clumsiness of Harold Ramis' direction. Ramis has never equaled the work he did on "Groundhog Day."

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50

USA Today Mike Clark

Though the picture falls apart whenever the two leads aren't on screen together, you can argue that That isn't that inferior to its predecessor.

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50

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

As for De Niro, he seems to have licence to do what he wants here, without much help from the writers.

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50

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

A sequel that never rises to the giddy pitches of skewed humor that the original managed to toss off with such unexpected glee.

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50

Film Threat David Grove

It used to be that the main allure of features was that they could deliver what cable couldn't, but now it's the other way around and one of the biggest problems with Analyze That is that it doesn't show us anything new or really funny, certainly nothing that we can't get on HBO.

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50

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

Analyze That is no surprise, and pleasant is about the most you can say for it.

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50

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

This is a movie that both parodies "The Sopranos" and aspires to its mordant humor. I don't think anyone -- not Tony Soprano, not Paul Vitti -- can have it both ways.

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50

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

This tepid sequel to Harold Ramis's mobster-on-the-couch comedy "Analyze This" (1999) is partially redeemed by Robert De Niro's handful of scenes with Cathy Moriarty-Gentile, who made her screen debut as the teenage wife in "Raging Bull."

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50

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

Everyone seems more relaxed this time around, including director Harold Ramis, who was presumably less intimidated now that he knows De Niro can be really funny and draw a large audience to a comedy.

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42

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

It's not just that Tony Soprano is richer, darker, cooler, and scarier. The dude gets more laughs.

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40

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

Mr. Crystal underplays his role wisely and well, while Mr. De Niro parodies -- maybe the better word is pillages -- himself and his career with scary gusto.

40

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Even Cathy Moriarty-Gentile's role as a rival mob boss (with a nod to "Raging Bull") can't save this DOA affair.

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40

New York Magazine Peter Rainer

Compounds the problems of its predecessor, "Analyze This," while duplicating almost none of its humor.

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38

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

The outtakes prove Analyze That could have been even worse.

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30

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

Stuck in that no man's land between comedy and banal movie mob action, and it delivers on neither of these impulses with any force.

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30

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Although there is the germ of a very sharp comedy in the intersection of real mobsters and make-believe thugs in a Hollywood mob comedy, Analyze That is far too lazy to do much with it.

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30

The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps

All the principals -- except, significantly, screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan -- reprised their roles for the sequel, and all seem confused as to why they returned.

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30

Variety Todd McCarthy

The novelty value is completely gone the second time around.

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25

Boston Globe Ty Burr

That this witless, formulaic sequel to the hit comedy Analyze This even dares to spoof ''The Sopranos'' is embarrassing. It's like Freddie Prinze Jr. slamming Gene Hackman as a bad actor.

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25

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

It's a big disappointment.

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25

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Shapeless, sloppy, badly paced mess.

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25

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Let's look at the bright side. If this movie bombs as it deserves to, we won't have to sit through "Analyze Those" a few years from now!

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20

TV Guide Frank Lovece

The annoying Reg Rogers, on the other hand, who plays Little Caesar creator Raoul Berman, delivers his lines like a stoned Pee-wee Herman, and the scene in which Billy Crystal mutters and drools in a restaurant is just disturbing for anyone who admired his work in the past.

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10

Village Voice Michael Atkinson

Director Harold Ramis and his cast fetch overchewed shticks, but what's surprising is the incompetent witlessness on exhibit. There's no limit to the botched comedy rhythms and wasted opportunities.

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10

Washington Post Desson Thomson

So dull and awful, you actually wonder if this is some kind of Andy Kaufmanesque in-joke, a deliberate attempt to douse the spark that made the original film so enjoyable.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 3.8 (out of 10) based on 14 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jeremy gave it a 3:
A dismal, uninspired sequel to a gem of a comedy that didn't call for a sequel in the first place.

Ephram B. gave it a 4:
Analyze Crap!

A Movie Critic gave it an 8:
I liked it...

Adam N. gave it an 8:
It's pretty funny. The only really funny part is when Di Nero is with the Hoboken ho.

Trent M. gave it a 1:
Now you can have your cheese and eat it too.

Mysta gave it a 6:
Stupid comedy... that's y i like it.

[Anonymous] gave it a 0:
Unfunny lame stupid. dont see it unless your being forced against you will.

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