🎬 Coconutdaddy’s Movie Take: Analyze This — A Comedy That Never Quite Figures Itself Out
Every franchise has that one movie people swear is a classic… and sometimes you watch it, sit through it, and wonder what everyone else was seeing. For me, that’s Analyze This — a film that somehow manages to be both a confusing mafia drama and a not‑quite‑funny comedy at the same time. Let’s start with the obvious: The plot feels like it’s juggling bowling balls while wearing oven mitts. It wants to be a gangster film. It wants to be a comedy. It wants to be a character study. And in the end, it doesn’t fully commit to any of them. Instead, it lands somewhere between bad comedy and bad mafia movie , never fully sticking the landing on either side. Now, Lisa Kudrow? She’s charming — she’s always charming — but she’s basically the garnish on a dish that doesn’t know what it’s trying to be. The whole “gangster goes to therapy” angle isn’t exactly groundbreaking either. We’ve seen it done better, cleaner, and funnier. In fact, Grosse Pointe Blank nailed the concept years earlier: John ...
