Analyze This (DVD) > Reviews

Advantages: A couple of hilarious scenes
Disadvantages: Silliness wears thin

Plot Details: This opinion reveals minor details about the movie's plot Here is a film that settles for a few good laughs. Instead of using its comedic touches to lighten up some truly darker themes, "Analyze This" plays it safe and silly. Dealing with two of our culture’s most problematic realities…organized crime and the pervasive need for "therapy," the film sidesteps these manifestations of our sick society in the name of some admittedly good ... Read review

Advantages: Laugh out Loud comedy
Disadvantages: Lisa Krudow part not cast well

This is a film made in 1999 by Warner Bros. the director is Harold ramis from a screenplay by Peter Tolan, Ken Lonnergan and Harold Ramis. The film is set in the US and is a part spoof mafia film and a spoof on therapists. Great film. If you like the way Billy Crystal delivers his humour, the way Robert DeNiro can switch from serious roles to comedy or just well scripted funny movies I recommend this movie to you. Robert DeNiro won oscars for ... Read review

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Crystal is a slightly neurotic New York Jewish psychiatrist who works from home and treats very ordinary patients with strange yet boring problems. DeNiro is the head of a New York crime family. Lately he's been getting moody, nervous, panicky, and is generally losing it. He goes to Crystal for treatment, won't take 'no' for an answer, and keeps pestering Crystal throughout a very important, personal time for the shrink. The supporting characters ... Read review

Advantages: Crystals performance
Disadvantages: DeNiros performance

OK, this film is centred upon a phychiatrist (Billy Crystal) and a Mafia Boss (Robert DeNiro). DeNiro is having a kinda midlife crisis and therefore seeks the help of a renowned phychiatrist, who is less than willing to say the least. Crystal tries his hardest to tell De Niro that he doesn't exactly want to be his therapist. But, hey, who is gonna tell a mafia boss something he doesn't wanna know? Billy Crystal's performance is actually quite ... Read review

Advantages: good story line
Disadvantages: bit too soppy

Analyze this, rated 15 is about a gangster who feels the need to talk to a shrink, staring Robert De niro and Billy Crystal, this film is about a mobster, who cannot live with the fact of what he has done. the shrink played by billy Crystal, is ordered to help vitti,s (robert De niro) of the anxiety that he is suffering, now the shrink meets up with his future wife and is about to wed her when vittis,s right hand man, takes the shrink (thats sobel) ... Read review

Advantages: Very funny and interesting comedy
Disadvantages: Story a bit weak

The answer to that question is most certainly YES."Analyze This" is wickedly funny and it is wickedly intelligent. Without slapstick, the film works purely on an intellectual level, toying with clichés and familiar stereotypes to create its may funny moments. The two lead actors interact brilliantly to create a funny duo - the strict and neurotic DeNiro and the scared yet brilliant Crystal. Lisa Kudrow makes an interesting addition to the cast and ... Read review

Advantages: Funny from not such a funny man
Disadvantages: none

Robert DeNiro is not a comedian. He used this to his advantage in what is arguably his best performance, as The King of Comedy's Rupert Pupkin. In Scorsese's 1982 media-age satire, which becomes more relevant with each passing year, Pupkin is a struggling comedian obsessed with talk show host Jerry Langford (a self-parodying Jerry Lewis) and the thought of appearing on his program. Pupkin’s routines, however, are painfully unfunny—and he is blithely ... Read review

Advantages: acting was good
Disadvantages: little story to make a film on

"Analyze This" is not just a title but an invitation--it does indeed deserve some analysis. But none of our hard-earned money. It starts out hilarious and believable, but half-way through it rapidly degrades into caricature and silliness, and just plain runs out of gas. Even DeNiro sounds off his feed; I didn't buy those crying jags for even a second. Other than Lisa Kudrow the only consistent brightness is the juvenile-jolly wit of Kyle Sabihy ... Read review

Advantages: Good performance by Robert De Niro
Disadvantages: None that I see

Analyze This is a mob comedy with a difference. This film stars Robert De Niro as a mob boss in need of therapy and Billy Crystal as his unwilling shrink. The laughs come thick and fast as De NIro parodies the gangster roles which made him famous and Billy Crystal is always funny in my opinon! The dvd comes with some special features such as, scene acess, commentary by Billy Crystal and Robert De Niroand some out-takes as well, but the best feature ... Read review

Advantages: Denero
Disadvantages: Kudrow

I saw this being a fan of mobster movies and Robert De Nero in particular. It's an above average comedy staring the aforementioned DeNero and Billy crystal (who doesn't annoy me in this as he does in City Slickers) There are gags a plenty and a lot of references to well known gangster films but you can't help feeling that the idea of a gangster seeing a pyschiarist is not worth padding out into a feature film. Lisa Kudrow is my major gripe with this ... Read review

Advantages: Seriously funny
Disadvantages: none really

Analyse this, what a scream. I’ve always been a fan of De Niro and when I first saw the trailers for this film I thought it was a must see movie. Robert De Niro, plays Gangster Boss Paul Viti, who has got psychological problems, the very idea that De Niro could play such a character after his roles in Goodfellas, Casino etc was to say the least inviting. Anyway he goes to see a shrink who is played brilliantly by Billy Crystal, who becomes ... Read review

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A shrink meets a Mafia boss who needs his help, but does not admit to it. Billy Crystal is the psychologist who reluctantly begins treating De Niro. Their relationship is hilarious and full of twists. All Crystal wants to do is to get married to his new wife (Lisa Kudrow), but something always gets in the way and most of the time it is the neurotic Mafia boss. Since they are stuck together, Crystal has to get on with De Niro and he also gets insight ... Read review