Analyse This/Analyse That DVD

Analyze This:
Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal team with Lisa Kudrow, Chas Palminteri and director/co-writer Harold Ramis to make you a comedy offer you can't refuse in this laugh-out-loud mob hit. De Niro, deftly spoofing the wise guy roles that have been a staple of his estimable career, plays powerful New York crime family racketeer Paul Vitti. Crystal, always one joke ahead of sleeping with the fishes, is shrink Ben Sobel who has just days to resolve Vitti's emotional crisis and turn him into a happy, well-adjusted gangster. Yes, Sobel is a family psychiatrist. But surely this isn't the kind of family he had in mind.

Analyze That:
They locked up mob boss Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro) in Sing Sing and that's where he sang sang - croaking tunes from West Side Story and carrying on in a way that convinces the Feds Vitti is better suited for a nut house than the Big House. Better yet, they conclude, let's release Vitti into the custody of his therapist Ben Sobel (Billy Crystal). The boys are back and so is the fun when De Niro and Crystal reprise their roles Analyze This and reteam with filmmaker Harold Ramis plus fellow stars Lisa Kudrow and Joe Viterelli. This time, Vitti is ready to find gainful employment and go straight. Or so he says. But can high-anxiety Sobel believe Vitti, especially when guys like Lou the Wrench keep showing up? In the words of more than one sage who knows his dese from his dose: fuggedaboudit!

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