Analyze That
- Robert De Niro: Paul Vitti
- Billy Crystal: Dr. Ben Sobel
- Lisa Kudrow: Laura Sobel
- Joe Viterelli: Jelly
- Cathy Moriarty: Patti LoPresti
Analyze This 2 ( Original title: Analyze That ) is an American comedy film directed by Harold Ramis 's 2002 In this sequel to the comedy Analyze This from the year 1999, the Mafia boss Paul Vitti, played by Robert De Niro is to be released from prison. . Because he is afraid of becoming a victim of assassination, he simulates a mental disorder and is then housed at his psychiatrist, played by Billy Crystal.
Action
Paul Vitti is in prison Sing Sing, and is soon to be released. Since he is threatened, he simulates a mental illness, dancing on the table of the dining room and sings songs of West Side Story. Dr. Ben Sobel, his psychiatrist, vouches for him, so Vitti is being transferred to his care and feeding in the house Sobel.
Vitti, who has only faked his mental illness to be transferred from the prison is run by Dr. Sobel compelled to look for a job, what to him after several failures ultimately as a consultant on the set of a mafia TV series also succeeds. He finds out that the prison attempted attacks on him by the Mafia family Rigazzi went out. The FBI suspected Vitti to have joined his former accomplices and plan a crime in a big way. The agents call on Dr. Sobel that he helps to convert Vitti.
Sobel follows Vitti and tries to talk him out of the crime. Since the involved complicity Dr. Sobel to get face and worried about their own safety because of the Mitwissers are, Vitti outputs it as another accomplice. Vitti and his men steal gold worth of 20 million dollars by the gold transporter is lifted with a crane and cracked in a yard. The gold is the Rigazzi family foisted discovered by the FBI after an anonymous tip and secured. At the same time the members of the family Rigazzi be arrested, so Vitti good conscience and without danger of the Mafia can turn your back.
Reviews
Desson Howe wrote in the Washington Post of 6 December 2002, the film was terrible. One can not say anything positive about him. The movie lives from the two leads, because " the two stars throwing the punch lines to like clowns pies ". According to Patrick Hamann Filmstarts.de in particular the role of Dr. Ben Sobel with Billy Crystal is " occupied terrific and offers dry humor " again. The sequel while not rich in the first part on, " but the film is fun, which is also due to the great supporting cast ." The Neue Zürcher Zeitung writes: " Bare slapstick is avoided in favor of wit and sharp tongue. The comedy works on the snowball effect: Each situation comedy escalates into the next. The film is in the tradition of the so-called screwball comedies, where sophisticated dialogues are more important than cheap jokes and prefer the shrill effect a harmonious atmosphere. "
Background
- The film played in theaters in the USA a 32.1 million U.S. dollars - far less than a matter of nerves with more than 100 million U.S. dollars.
- The occurring in the film series Little Caesar is a play on the gangster film Little Caesar in the year 1931.
- This film was the last one to two years later deceased Joe Viterelli turned.