It is pretty unanimous with critics, "Analyze That" is not only a racist and stereotypical "Amos and Andy" type comedy about Italian Americans,but it also is a miserable failure as a film.  Let us hope it disappears from the theaters quickly.

Unfortunately the public's appetite for the "Mafia Minstrel Show" could make it stick around for awhile.  I don't know how you feel, but the commercials for "Analyze That" lowers the bar even more (could it go any lower) for this ugly racist stereotype of
Italian Americans, that has been coming down on us like an avalanche since the release of "The Sopranos."  

In my 47 years I would never have dreamed it could get this bad in popular media for Italian Americans.

We need to do something to stop this slide now, before our great-great-grandchildren are stuck with this racist legacy.  I'm sorry, but these are bleak times for people in the Italian American community who care about their heritage.  I feel like my gut has been cut out of me, and the people who sacrificed everything for me, the people who had the courage to immigrate to this country so that I could have a better life, are being dug up and trashed in their graves.  

Where do we go from here?  I'm sorry....I wish I didn't care so much.  My life would be so much easier.

Steve Antonuccio
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FINAL ANALYSIS, PLEASE

by Steven Rosen
Denver Post Movie Critic
 

It doesn't take months of therapy, or even a 50-minute session, to
analyze the problem with "Analyze That." It has no reason to exist,
other than the obvious commercial one.

In Analyze That" the concept has suffered a nervous breakdown.  
The film pretends it's still valid, but this time around there's nothing in 
De Niro's portrayal of Paul Vitti that betrays the slightest sign of
neurosis-or even a touch of self-doubt.

Thus, the reteaming of him with Crystal's Ben Sobel has no internal
logic whatsoever.  The story is mere excuse.  It's just shtick-a series
of loosely connected skits and jokes.

But once the old, beefy gang-member stereotypes start to collect 
around Paul, Ben hardly even matters.

Already short, "Analyze That" adds outtakes of the actors flubbing lines
and laughing about it.  That reinforces the fact "Analyze That" is just
a collection of this and that-whatever fills time-with no unified whole.
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NO MORE NEED FOR ANALYSIS
By Roger Ebert

The success of "Analyze This" (1999) made "analyze That" inevitable, but
was it necessary?  What seemed like a clever idea the first time feels
like a retread the second, as mob boss Paul Vitti (Rober De Niro) goes
back into therapy with Dr. Ben Sobel (Billy Crystal).  The first film
more or less exhausted the possibilities of this idea, as the second on
illustrates.

What we get in "Analyze That" are several talented actors delivering
their familiar screen personas in the service of an idiotic plot.
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