I love this movie so much

One of my all time favorites.

Just perfect...

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Analyze That is a mafia comedy film, and a sequel to Analyze This that stars Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal, who respectively reprise their roles as mobster Paul Vitti and psychiatrist Ben Sobel.Lisa Kudrow,Joe Viterelli and Cathy Moriarty-Gentile co-star to play key supporting roles.It was co-written and directed by Harold Ramis. Ever since he ended up behind bars, mob leader Paul Vitti has been in sad shape, alternately weeping like a child and singing favorite tunes from West Side Story. Fearful of his emotional stability, prison officials release Vitti into the custody of his psychiatrist, Dr. Ben Sobel, but this is far more responsibility than Sobel wants -- he's having troubles with his family after the recent death of his father, also an analyst, and has been overworked since taking over his late father's practice. Sobel becomes even more exasperated when he learns Vitti will be moving into his home, which is especially upsetting for Sobel's wife, Laura. As Sobel tries to get to the root of Vitti's problems -- which are very much real, even if he was faking his symptoms behind bars -- he tries to help Vitti find a straight job, which is hardly easy for a man of his temperament. And adding to all this confusion, several members of Vitti's old crew are after him, determined to insure that he doesn't pass along any incriminating information.Audiences who loved Analyze This may have to see the new movie to believe just how empty it is. What they'll find is a profound difference between the two movies since this sequel is thin, flat and largely forgettable as De Niro and Crystal trudge through with all the enthusiasm of John Madden at a salad bar.Also,where the first movie - Analyze This - struck just the right tone, blending anxiety attacks with machine-gun attacks to come up with a comic La Cosa Neurosis, this picture consistently goes too far in all directions.

I was a big fan of Analyze this. That is why I was really disappointed with Analyze that, a film that could've been a lot better. Trust me, it's not as bad as Be Coll or anything. I was a big fan of Get shorty and I was disappointed with that movie's sequel also. Trust me, this ain't Be cool though. Years after he was put away, Paul Vitti comes out of Sing Sing prison, where he sang sang. He comes back to his therapist Ben Sobel(played by the great Billy Crystal), where he causes even more chaos than before. I loved the original film, but this film has a Whole ten yards thing going with it where it's just a little silly. I give both films(Analyze that and The Whole ten yards) the same rating though. Does this film come close to being as good as the original? No. But the film still works in some sort of way. I'll agree that it was a disappointment, but I still liked it.Analyze that:***/****

This time around, everything is different. Paul's coming from somewhere he's never been, going into a new life, and in new directions, and dragging the f'ing Doctor along with him.The same dynamic from "Analyze This" is in play, but it is applied differently, with more skill. This chapter feels like it tries to be more serious, and loses some of the charm of the first installment, but it manages a certain gritty edge missing from that first movie.This is still a witty movie, don't get me wrong. But it gives the viewers more of the business end of Paul Vitti and family. The laughs are less the belly kind and more the thinker's tickle kind until about half way through it, and then it changes gears and the belly laughs start coming again.I really enjoy this movie, and watch it often.It rates an 8.4/10 from...the Fiend :.

In case you are wondering about my one line summary... it's based on a gag in the film. And it's so much of a running gag that they must've had that thing training for a *marathon* before they made the movie. I'm not kiddin', it's said the better part of a dozen times, in a 90-minute movie. Now, I grant that the first was hardly a work of art. By all means, it was perhaps good for a few laughs on a slow night with nothing else or better to do, but this, my gosh, this "film" takes everything the first was and takes away what charm there was to it. The characters are reduced to stereotypes. Tons of jokes and scenes are recycled, and any merit they may have is all from having appeared(and possibly worked) in the first film. Someone compared this to Men In Black 2... and I would have to agree that this is a sequel in that same vein. More or less everybody comes back, some simply to reference their character in the first, and everything is, supposedly, taken up a notch. Scenes are pushed further into the extreme. Any humor that could have existed in this film is lost due to everything being so forced. The plot is written around how to shove Crystal and De Niro together again, and it only goes downhill from there. Was there any point to making this sequel other than the anticipated profit(which apparently did not come to be)? Analyze This did not need a follow-up. La Paglia isn't terrible. I suppose the film is watchable, and not as bad as others out there, but you ought to ask yourself: "Is this something I need to spend my time and/or money on?" I recommend it only to those who simply must see more after watching the first... and even those should take care, because opinion seems evenly divided between those who enjoy it and those who regretted watching it. 5/10