Analyze That 2002

Critics score:
27 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: Where the first movie 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. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Some of this might fly if there were a script, any script, but under the direction of Harold Ramis, the supporting cast mills about aimlessly while the two stars shoot potty-mouth improvisations at each other. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: While Analyze That can't re-create the freshness of the first film, writers Peter Tolan, Peter Steinfeld and director Harold Ramis ... have come up with a couple of bits that may inspire you to snort-laugh, though you'll feel guilty about it later. Read more

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: Little more than a mildly amusing retread. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: I can analyze this movie in three words: Thumbs Friggin' Down. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Feels unnecessary. Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Although the level of the comedy declines as the movie proceeds, there's no denying the fun of watching De Niro and Crystal having fun. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Where This was lazy but enjoyable, a formula comedy redeemed by its stars, That is even lazier and far less enjoyable. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: A loose-jointed series of skits, laced with running jokes that poke mild fun at mob movie cliches and therapeutic psychobabble. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The shtick still works. Read more

Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: The jokes are delivered with all the surprise you get with filmmaking on cruise control, but Ramis and Co. seem to be having a good time and every so often they do manage to slide in a bit that's so wily and understated it nearly avoids detection. Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Your response to its new sequel, Analyze That, may hinge on what you thought of the first film. Read more

Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: De Niro and Crystal are capable of being a great comedic team, but just like any other actors they're only as good as the script -- and this one is decidedly underwelming. Read more

Steven Rosen, Denver Post: Just a collection of this and that -- whatever fills time -- with no unified whole. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It doesn't take long to get the sinking sensation that you're seeing a shadow of a former joke. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Patient suffers from serious delusions of humour and a desire to cash in on previously successful strategies. Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: The screenplay flounders under the weight of too many story lines. Read more

John Patterson, L.A. Weekly: If only all sequels were this much fun. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: A moment of silence, please, for the career of Robert De Niro. Once considered the finest American screen actor alive, he has reduced himself to singing I Feel Pretty. It is anything but. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Analyze That delivers its share of amusing moments, but, when it comes to inventive or inspired comedy, it is lacking. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: What we get in Analyze That are several talented actors delivering their familiar screen personas in the service of an idiotic plot. Read more

Charles Taylor, Salon.com: Nothing here seems as funny as it did in Analyze This, not even Joe Viterelli as De Niro's right-hand goombah. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: 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 This and That. Read more

Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Read more

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Peter Howell, Toronto Star: An offer we can most definitely refuse. Read more

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Mike Clark, USA Today: Though the picture falls apart whenever the two leads aren't on screen together, you can argue that That isn't that inferior to its predecessor. Read more

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Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: The by now exhausted one-joke scenario -- Mafioso on the couch -- revisited and rehashed with unimaginative franchise fidelity. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Wasting Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal's talent and too much of our time. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Dull and awful. Read more