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New Century of Cinema
DOWSE Guide to the
Movies
by Tony Lee editor of
Pigasus
Press
Analyze This
99 minutes (15) Warner
Director: Harold Ramis
review by Rob Marshall
Forget TV's The Sopranos, this wacky comedy drama sees
troubled wiseguy Robert De Niro consult psychotherapist Billy Crystal with very
amusing results. The bipolar casting works fine in the scenes where De Niro's
overanxious mafia don explains his deepest feelings to Crystal's easygoing New York
Jew and, despite the predictably emotional and violent outbursts from both leads,
this often witty farce is more 'cry hard' than Die Hard. That said, with such
coldly penned lines as "If I talk to you and you turn me into a fag, I'm gonna kill
ya!" it's a wonder this film is so effective a spoof of the stereotypes concerned. If
I had to choose, it is clear that Crystal walks off with the acting honours, if only
because De Niro's attempts at sobbing sound more like someone with a breathless cough
than genuine misery. See this funny movie, by all means, but don't expect too much of
it.
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