 Critics are suggesting that Analyze That, starring Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal, may have a lot in common with the candy sold at the multiplexes' concesssions stands. Stephen Holden in the New York Times says that the film really amounts to not more than "a kind of mob vaudeville show." Chris Kaltenbach in the Baltimore Sun writes that "pleasant is about the most you can say for it." Likewise, Eleanor Ringel Gillespie in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution describes the movie as "an amiable and occasionally laugh-out-loud follow-up." Carrie Rickey in the Philadelphia Inquirer writes that the "so-so sequel ... is stronger on jokes than on story." Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal allows that the film is "studded with nifty one-liners," but, he concludes, "Never was a sequel more slapdash." Michael Wilmington of the Chicago Tribune calls it "a Hollywood sequel of surpassing silliness and wasted talent." But Mike Clark in USA Today has a different take on the film. All it amounts to, he says, is "a calculated commercial comedy to pay those Christmas multiplex rents when other screens must play less popular movies destined to win all the awards." |
