The greates asset of Harold Ramis' "Analyze This!" is the excellent cast. Not only Robert DeNiro and Billy Crystal, but also Chazz Palmentieri and the other supporting actors. I do not want to say that the screenplay isn't funny, it really is. But with a lesser cast, the film wouldn't work so well. It is essential, that most of the actors played in (serious) mafia films before. This adds a new dimension to the picture and makes it more than just a spoof in the style of Jim Abrahams rather unfunny film "Mafia". Towards the end, the movie runs a little bit out of steam and is not quite able to entertain as much as at the beginning. But generally, "Analyze This!" is likeable fun and Ramis' best film since "Groundhog Day".
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Cast Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal together in a film and it should be a sucker's bet ... more
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Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal team up with Lisa Kudrow, Chazz Palminteri and ... more
director/co-writer Harold Ramis to make you a comedy offer you can't refuse in this laugh-out-loud mob hit. De Niro, deftly spoofing the wiseguy roles that have been a stap...
Cast Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal together in a film and it should be a sucker's bet ... more
as to who's going to be funnier and who's going to give the more nuanced performance. Somehow, though, De Niro walks away with most of the laughs, mugging gleefull...
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Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal team up with Lisa Kudrow Chazz Palminteri and ... more
director/co-writer Harold Ramis to make you a comedy offer you can't refuse in this laugh-out-loud mob hit. De Niro deftly spoofing the wiseguy roles that have been a stap...
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Advantages: De Niro Steals the Show, Crystal is fairly good, works well between them both. Disadvantages: Lisa Kudrow has been typecast into her Phoebe from Friends role again.
Andy.mack 13.10.2003 (13.10.2003)
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