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Analyze This
Warner Bros.
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for language, a scene of sexuality and some violence
Starring
Robert De Niro,
Billy Crystal,
Lisa Kudrow,
Chazz Palminteri,
and
Molly Shannon
When a mob boss (De Niro) suddenly starts to have panic attacks, he enlists the help of a reluctant psychiatrist (Crystal).
| GENRE(S): |
Crime
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Kenneth Lonergan (also story)
Peter Tolan (also story)
Harold Ramis
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Harold Ramis
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 17, 1999
Video: April 4, 2000
Theatrical: March 5, 1999
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| RUNNING TIME: |
103 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
More than a high concept stretched to feature length. This is a funny and extremely satisfying comedy, the best in a while.
91
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Crystal turns in his best (read: least sappy) performance in ages, getting through an entire movie -- most of it, anyway -- without mugging.
90
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
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 the rapport between its two stars.
90
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Watching De Niro take Paul through his first panic attack ("I'm crying like a woman") is an unalloyed joy.
90
Film.com
Peter Brunette
Sure, the territory is not exactly fresh...but the chemistry between the two leads is so explosive yet assured, and the comic timing so perfect, that the cliches are given new life.
80
The New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
As he demonstrated in "Groundhog Day," Ramis knows how to handle a high-concept story with unusual cleverness, and he does it again here. It helps to no end that De Niro and Crystal, despite their obvious differences, are perfectly in tune.
80
The New Yorker
David Denby
You can see the jokes coming well in advance, but you still laugh uncontrollably.
80
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
A funny, tightly plotted, well-conceived comedy that transcends both Crystal's '90s curse and its horrible title.
80
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Ramis...does extract every last yuk from this lively clash of id and superego, this spoofy buddies' odyssey from underworld to Prozac nation.
75
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
It's the most liberated and alive [DeNiro]'s been since his deluded Rupert Pupkin tried to kidnap Jerry Lewis in "King of Comedy."
75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Maybe the problem with Analyze This is that it isn't enough of a Ramis movie. [5 Mar 1999]
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The comedy here isn't all on the surface, and Viterelli [the bodyguard Jelly] is one reason why.
75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Frequently funny and occasionally hilarious.
70
Newsweek
Andrea C. Basora
There are some moments that fall flat—the cinematic world might be a better place without Crystal's deeply unfunny parody of a gangster—and the delightful Lisa Kudrow is woefully under-used.
70
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
It's still possible to have a good time at this movie, and the primary reason is De Niro.
70
Slate
David Edelstein
Its structure is repetitive, but each scene begins with a joyous blast of comic energy...A hoot.
70
New Times (L.A.)
Bill Gallo
Analyze This won't win any Oscars, and its comedy is pretty tortured in places, but the pleasures of watching DeNiro onscreen never diminish--not even when he's putting the glories of his criminal past at risk.
67
Austin Chronicle
Russell Smith
As enjoyable as it is, it's hard to escape a sense of Analyze This being the work of competent talents who knew exactly where the good-enough line was and didn't feel particularly inspired to push far beyond it.
63
USA Today
Mike Clark
Because De Niro's performance is aptly ''Scorsese-aggressive'' while Crystal effectively underplays, one can easily sit through this bottom-line disappointment with a smile painted on, waiting for belly laughs that rarely come. [5 Mar 1999]
60
TV Guide
Sandra Contreras
Though not much about the film sticks with you, it's a reliable piece of fluff that delivers the goods.
50
Film Threat
Tom Meek
Analyze This plays "The Godfather" bit, fast and funny, it just picked a framework it should have refused.
50
Variety
Todd McCarthy
The gradual dilution of fresh humor is further undercut by a queasy sense that the picture, in the end, is quietly endorsing all the psychoanalytical mumbo jumbo that it has been poking fun at all along.
50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Ramis doesn't reach the comic heights of his "Groundhog Day," but the acting is excellent and the screenplay offers some hearty laughs if you can stand bursts of violence and language as foul as a Mafioso's business agenda.
50
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Enjoyable but slight— an intermittently funny, one-joke vaudeville.
40
Film.com
Sean Means
As the movie plods on, the jokes start to fall flat...Worst of all is a centerpiece scene, when Ben has to pretend to be a mafioso (but sounds more like a cross between Martin and Lewis), when Crystal is so unfunny that you almost feel sorry for him.
40
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Both too unfocused and overly familiar. It has enough comic energy to generate some chuckles, but even when we laugh we're always wondering why the jokes aren't funnier. [5 Mar 1999]
30
Film.com
Elizabeth Weitzman
I can't imagine why De Niro, who is a fine comedian, is still coasting on his gangster act, and surely Crystal can do something other than play himself...it feels a little like an exercise in laziness.
30
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A pretty woeful affair...a sitcom disguised as a movie.
10
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
Watching Ramis struggle with his two stars is like watching someone try to juggle lead weights.
10
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
This blunt comedy suffers from poor pacing, colorless dialogue, and subpar performances by the two leads that reveal just how much a director contributes to our perception of what a star is.
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