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Actors: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Analyze That |
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Mob boss Paul Vitti is released from prision and then sent into the hands of psychiatrist, Ben Sobel. There Ben tries to find out what has been going wrong in Paul's life. Ben suggests that Paul should turn his life around and reccomends getting a job. He eventually starts acting and hilarious things start to happen with the Mafia and their careers as two different people try to work together.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
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Billy Crystal returns as the psychiatrist who was assigned to trest Robert DeNiro's character, and Lisa Kudrow is now the psychiatrist's wife. Lots of other things have changed, too: DeNiro has landed a starring role on the Sopranos, and he meets Tony Soprano, the most famous member of that family. But he still has doubts, and he sneaks off to see Crystal, although the Mafia still forbids it.
--Teddy, Resident Scholar
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This is a sequel to Analyze This. Robert DeNiro plays a mob boss who gets released from prison in the custody of his psychiatrist, Billy Crystal, by acting as if he is crazy. After DeNiro is released from prison, he tries to right the wrongs is his life after trying several ways to go "straight and narrow" path.
--K Lininger, Resident Scholar
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Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal pair up again in the sequel to the hilarious Analyze This, in Analyze That. Though this movie isn't as funny as the first one, the bloopers are hysterical. The story is about Paul Vitti (De Niro) who has had recent assasination attemps on his life, so he fakes psychosis and has his past psychiatrist, Ben Sobel (Crystal), get him out. Once he does, he tries to go straight and get a regular job. He finally ends up working on a TV show very much like the Sopranos. But he has another trick up his sleave. Once he finds out who has been trying to kill him, he sets them up by stealing a whole bunch of gold and framing them with it.
--Michael Gookin, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Analyze That |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
If a parody... of
- gangsters/crime
Kind of comedy
- bungling criminals
How much humor v. drama
- Mostly humor, but some serious drama
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- psychiatrist
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Body type
- (man) average build
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
- Los Angeles
- dirty, grimy (like New York)
- dangerous
- wealthy
- rude people
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- prison
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
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