Analyze That (2002) Robert De Niro Paul Vitti Billy Crystal Dr Ben Sobel Lisa Kudrow Laura Sobel Joseph D Onofrio Rigazzi Gunman Thomas Rosales Jr. Coyote Scotty Dillin Prison Guard David Wolos-Fonteno Davis Tom Papa Boyfriend Paul Herman Joey Boots William DeMeo Al Pacino Joseph Reidy 1st AD Demetri Martin P.A. Joe Viterelli Jelly Cathy Moriarty Patty LoPresti Directed by: Harold Ramis Produced by: Billy Crystal, Barry Levinson, Chris Brigham Mob boss Paul Vitti is nearing the end of his term in Sing Sing, and the FBI agents monitoring him are baffled. Day after day they watch as New York's most notorious gangland figure walks around his cell in a semi-catatonic stupor, occasionally breaking into songs from West Side Story. Is Vitti having a nervous breakdown because of recent threats on his life by a rival family, or is his odd behavior merely a foxy ploy to get him sprung from jail early? The FBI isn't sure, and neither is his former psychotherapist Ben Sobel, who gets called in to consult on the case. The last time Sobel treated Vitti, he tried to get to the source of his debilitating anxiety attacks, but barely scratched the surface. It will take time to examine the demons still lurking in Vitti's mind and help put him on the straight and narrow--time that Sobel doesn't want to give. The truth is, Sobel has problems of his own. His father has just died, plunging him into an identity crisis in both his personal and professional lives. Furthermore, he knows his wife Laura will be furious if he allows the unpredictable Vitti back into their lives. But when Vitti is granted a conditional release into Sobel's care and custody, becoming his patient again and--even worse--his houseguest, the reluctant psychiatrist finds that he has no choice. In order to get peace back in his life he must help the troubled gangster sort out his psyche, find gainful employment and go straight--which proves easier said than done. =========== The mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out. Naturally, he returns to his analyst Dr. Ben Sobel for help and finds that Sobel needs some serious help himself as he has inherited the family practice, as well as an excess stock of stress. ========== This lightheaded sequel to "Analyze This" plays like an amiably sloppy mob vaudeville show in which there's not much difference between a Mafia whacking and the comic bellowing of a song from "West Side Story." Robert De Niro is the Mafia boss Paul Vitti, who fakes insanity to get himself discharged from Sing Sing under the care of his therapist, Dr. Ben Sobel (Billy Crystal). Paul eventually lands a job as a consultant on a television series based on "Little Caesar." But this lazy comedy makes little of the potentially amusing television-show-within-a-movie idea. It is content to let its stars horse around in front of the camera like a latter-day Bob Hope and Bing Crosby on a nonsensical road to nowhere.