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Bookmark this pageAnalyze That (2002)
Director: Harold Ramis
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Again with the ga-ga gangster no-ha-ha. Actually, that's slightly unfair: De Niro enlivening his prison lock-up with renditions of numbers fromWest Side Story adds another facet to his star persona. Regrettably, that accounts for just the first five minutes of this spurious sequel to what was a pretty lame effort in the first place - indeed, it's typical of the film's witlessness to squander its best hand at the outset. Then again, Ramis and his writers play so much of the story so straight - like we care about these crude caricatures? - that you wonder if they even remember this is meant to be a comedy. Crystal, as De Niro's reluctant psychiatric confidant, is again defined by his nervy kvetching; De Niro, having engineered his probation into Crystal's care, proves the proverbial rough diamond - not the ideal house guest, but never too far from redemption.Author: NB
Cast & crew
Director: Harold Ramis
Producer: Paula Weinstein, Jane Rosenthal
Cast: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli, Reg Rogers, Cathy Moriarty-Gentile, John Finn, Kyle Sabihy, Callie Thorne, Pat Cooper, Frank Gio, Anthony LaPaglia full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 96 mins
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