Part 2 and long over due (Analyze That (DVD))

Member Name: iamasadlittleboy

Product:	Analyze That (DVD)
Date:	01/11/07 (73 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Some humour, decent cast

Disadvantages: Too dark for fans of the original

(Part 2)...Analyze that on the other hand is a lot less funny (which is odd as the main actors are the same and the writer/director are the same). With the first movie having a lot of light hearted gangster humour this movie takes you more gangster and less humour.

Paul Vitti in Analyze this was a fun gangster, who sure wasn't a wonderfully nice bloke but had reformed and was repenting for his sins. In Analyze that (based 3 years later) Vitti goes crazy in prison (with the wonderfully brilliant scene of him singing West Side Story songs), and sadly the humou goes a bit crazy to. Despite being a pretty likeable gangster in the original in the sequel Vitti's class has gone and he basically seems more and more like a street crook (until very late in the movie).

The cast is almost directly the same (with the actor of Micheal being the only real change) but this time the reformed Vitti is out there as a wanted man (by rival factions of the mob) and as a result wants to turn the the tables on those that want him dead. The light humour has become more dark and it's become a bit more of The Italian job (remake) rather than The Godfather, which is a shame as the series could have closed on the high that it started off at. The story also deos seem to go a bit Italian Jobish as well, as Vitti turns his back on the good work he did pre-prison and starts back on the road to reclaim the mob.

Despite some really high parts the movie on the whole doesn't match it's younger, fresher, funnier and nicer brother which makes it seem more of a disappointment than it really is.

The movie just has a much more sinister feel to it than it's predesesscor which seemed like a fun gangster movie, this feels like it's trapped, and this is possibly due to the extremely successful TV show Soprano's which used a similar premise of a mobster seekign help from a councellour. This meant the movie had to be darker to appeal to their audience and this appears to have been a bit of a shame as the original movies humour was brilliant, refreshing and light hearted fun.

Extras-
Gag reel
TV spots
Commentary by Michael Landis
A documentary

Summary-A good buy if you can get it cheaply enough, but overall the second movie does seem a little bit shoddy compared to the first.

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