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I wasn’t
much looking forward to this. I
thought Analyze This was humorous, but not good enough for
a sequel. What a surprise!
Analyze That is funnier.
The story is fantasy, but part of the humor, so I’m not going
to spoil it by setting it up (although the filmmakers do a good job of
that with their trailer). It’s based on a factual occurrence, actually.
Maybe Billy
Crystal and Robert De Niro aren’t Hope and Crosby or Martin and Lewis
yet, but they are very good together.
De Niro is funny, but Crystal has found his mark as the
beleaguered psychiatrist who’s stuck with mob boss De Niro.
It’ll never happen, but I think he deserves an Oscar nomination
for this. I hope nominators
will remember the following tale:
When
Sir Donald Wolfit, a great English actor/manager, was lying on his death
bed, a young actor said to him:
"Sir Donald, after a life so filled with success and fame, dying
must be hard..."
To which Sir Donald replied:
"Dying is easy....Comedy is hard."
There’s not much
more that need be said about Analyze That.
If you want an enjoyable entertainment that will have you leaving
the theater happy and smiling, this is one to see.
December 13,
2002
The End
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